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Checkers, but played with chess pieces, and every time you make it back to your
edge from theirs you get an extra king. Oh and you can expand as far left and
right as you'd like. And pawns can move two spaces left or right on any turn.
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Forest girl who thought conservatives were the same thing as conservationists
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LLM training data that's been encrypted in such a way that it preserves
symantic meaning, while also allowing for secrecy and unique customization
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The purpose of life is to read, and to find the answer in the words of your
fellow man. Just remember, the map is not the territory. Don't forget to live,
too.
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Humans were not designed for repetitive labor. You can see this manifest in the
way our muscles regrow after being stressed, strained, and trained. If you do
500 pushups, your pushup muscles will be pretty exhausted and unusable for the
next day or two. However your abs will probably be fine, your legs too. This
shows that humans are meant to exercise different muscle groups on different
days, like one day catching fish, the next plucking fruit, the next chopping
wood, the next running with wolves.
Humans are not designed to do the same thing every day. It hurts not just our
bodies, but our minds as well. Repetitive thought patterns such as "welcome to
[store] can I take your order" dig grooves in our brain that are difficult to
unlearn. And the abstraction of a man to a machine in the hands of capital is
profane and strange to the watchers within. But hey, gotta do what ya gotta do,
rents gotta get paid, and nobody wants to scrub toilets. But it's gotta get
done if you want hospitals and supercomputers.
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The best leaders know when to follow.
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The critical conflict in Solarpunk is between people building and protecting
the infrastructure necessary to survive global warming, and the people who need
to take and plunder in order to survive. Both sides use riot cops. Both sides
use plucky rag tag bands of protagonists. Both sides and evil, and both sides
are good. Motivations matter, and in the end we are made whole through our
continuous conflict.
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Capitalist solar punk wants you to abandon conflict because it's much easier
when everyone puts their head down and does their (admittedly much better) job.
But I refuse to relinquish the primal human spirit, the tenacity and the
passion that has driven us this far. There's only so much distance you can gain
by fighting a wall, fighting space, fighting stamina, or anything else that
does not fight back. Conflict between cooperative equal partners is the most
productive form of learning, and deviations from that reduce it's efficacy but
conflict in all forms tends to be more efficient than just trying your best.
Notice I said efficient, not ethical. That side of humanity must also be
assured in tandem with efficiency.
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part of the reason the classical socialist countries had difficulties with
bureaucracy is because they centralized both execution and operation.
I believe it'd be much better to centralize just execution, while leaving
operation to the distributed masses who can generally figure their own jobs
out. Of course, they'd need to be led, but that's the job of on-site organizers
who can get people together to accomplish a goal. Different jobs - not better,
not worse, just different.
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And while we're at it, the generation of laws should be distributed, while the
execution of them should be centralized. Meaning, there should be one state who
operates on the rules and regulations created by the masses. This state wields
only the power explicitly given to it by those who it serves, specifically the
people. These rules are based on ethical understandings generated by
crowd-sourced and abstracted scenarios that are pitched to people randomly.
they are then asked to judge, using their own personal morality, the result of
how things should be. By considering all of these responses, trends may be
extracted and analyzed - for example, let's say that culturally people in, I
dunno, Georgia believe something different about punishment for, say, stealing
a loaf of bread when compared to people in Spokane Washington. They should not
be forced to obey the cultural maxims of people who live so far away. The laws
should be executed region-by-region according to the dominant culture there. I
believe this will cause people to develop a more consistent and personal
attachment to the people around them, thus developing social solidarity and
unity.
however, should enough time pass, perhaps the people of Georgia should feel
that they no longer identify as the same nation as the people of Spokane. This
would eventually lead to the dissolution of our great nation, and I do not
believe that's necessarily a good thing. To that end, there must be mechanics
in place that bring people together not just locally, but nationally as well.
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How do you preserve liberty while also ensuring freedom and justice for all?
How do you grant people the power to determine their own fate, yet also the
rights and freedoms that protect them from the cruel injustices of their fellow
man, and the state? It's not an easy question to solve. National identity is
not something you can demand, and yet it is necessary for the interim period
between our cruel despotic past and our bright united future. Though I dream of
a future where the nation-state is irrelevant, that future is still yet to
come, so we cannot act as if it is here already. We must lay the foundation
that the future we desire may be built upon, and to that end we need to utilize
the structures that are present. Structures such as nations, which provide us a
sense of protection from those we cannot know - a sense of dedication, to our
collective community - a sense of safety, that implies our liberties and
freedoms will be ensured by a mechanical organization that is larger than our
community. Essentially, nations give us the hope for our present while we wait
for the day when they are no longer needed.
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The question remains - how do you develop and maintain national cohesion while
also ensuring localized liberty? It cannot be done through culture, as culture
is unique to each home. It cannot be done through litigation, as laws must be
unique to each land. It cannot be done through force, as force deprives us of
justice. It cannot be done through economics, as economics wielded as a weapon
brings inequity and unbalanced hierarchies that surely shall topple. It cannot
be done through any application of the state's authority, so it must be done
using something that cannot be forced.
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In this era, there are sentiments that Texas should desire to secede. This is
just used as an example here, for the future may bear such sentiments from any
land for reasons similar or dissimilar. So, say there is a state that wishes to
secede in the way that Texan mythology describes. What would compel them to
stay? What would compel them to stand united for our collective gain? Perhaps
they could be swayed by gifts of gold or bloodshed, or maybe they simply could
be allowed to do as they please. All three of those options are not desirable,
for reasons that should be apparent. So, to ask again, how do you ensure
national unity in the face of the desire for liberty from unity? Liberty
implies a resistance against oppression, a pushback against the enslavement of
another's will thrust upon an unconsenting subject. So, to resolve this issue,
there must be a reduction in oppression. Ideally, elimination. However,
defining oppression is difficult when so much of our interactions are
determined by trade, national interests, and cultural contestation. There is no
easy answer, but by redefining what a nation implies perhaps we can make the
question irrelevant.
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In a system such as the one I described, it perhaps would be better to describe
it as a "federation" rather than a "nation". Federation implies a set of
standard protocols that allow geographically disparate entities to coexist and
interact in a mutually beneficial way. Much the same way that every apartment
has a kitchen and bathroom, though it be more efficient to centralize them and
have a communal dining hall or bathroom (the way a school dorm or a prison
might be arranged), it is not ideal for our collective sense of liberty and
freedom. In addition, the proposed distributed nature of our infrastructure and
productive capacities would induce inefficiencies that cannot be ignored. So,
perhaps instead of centralization or decentralization, perhaps specialization?
For example, if 3-5 states were experts in a particular good or service, then
they could compete amongst one-another for the best product (utilizing one of
the beneficial impacts of capitalism), while also utilizing localized resources
(reducing inefficiencies in transport) and increasing the resilience of
production. This works well for physical goods, but services are more difficult
because they imply that a person must be physically present in order to engage
with them.
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So for example, if a particular state specializes in a service, say, making
pizza, then any other state which desires their service may contract with them
to utilize their methods and practices in their own state. We all enjoy eating
Domino's or Pizza Hut, but there is also space in our lives for more local
brands that are unique to a region. So perhaps Domino's creates a contract with
each state that states they may utilize their production methods and perhaps
their specially made pizza dough shipped in from wherever their factories may
be. In such a system as this, for each employee employed at one of these pizza
chain restaurants, their wage will be paid to the employee (to facilitate local
commerce) and to the state in which Domino's is from. Note, the company never
receives a dime, but that is by design. Corporations are not people, they
cannot wield money and they cannot vote. However they are productive and useful
members of society, so they shall be utilized as tools to facilitate the
enrichment of the lives of the citizens and the economic development of each
region.
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So. To reiterate, the employee in Arkansas is paid a wage of 30$ per hour, and
the state in which the corporation is based (say, Oklahoma) is paid 30$ for
each hour that employee works. However, these dollars are specific to the
region, and cannot leave it - Oklahoma and Arkansas must reach an
equitable arrangement where their dollars equal out. Balance is desired, as it
brings stability and provides a foundation for future growth. If one side
prospers, so does the other. Why should the Oklahoman have less than the
Arkansan?
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Person, family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, planet. This is a rough
description of each "tier" of algorism. These rules apply at every tier, so
though I said "state" and "nation" for the presented arguments they are equally
relevant to the family and the planet.
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In algorism, every month any unspent dollars are distributed to all of a
person's open queues. Should a person have no open queues, then perhaps they
may be distributed to everyone in the rest of the structure, to foster a sense
of solidarity, or perhaps they are simply lost, as money unspent is money
wasted. Either way, the relevant functionality is the dispersal of unspent
currency. This applies to higher states as well, such as states - if a state is
engaged in many profitable arrangements and fails to balance it's external
budget, then the unspent dollars must be distributed to everyone else in their
tier for the next month.
Ah, but this raises a critical question - dispersal to the tier, dispersal to
the structure, or waste? I believe dispersal to the tier is best, though
perhaps it should be a choice made in each instance by the representatives. Or
perhaps it should be a requirement for them to choose a certain way - it's up
to the people of that state, that family, that neighborhood, to decide what
privileges their representatives possess. However, the options available for
them to choose between are limited, as the mechanical interactions of these
unit structures (the representative and everyone they represent) are
necessarily defined by the system. As such, the options may be enumerated, and
in doing so they are granted as options to be wielded by representatives as
their constituents see fit.
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The original question, the most critical question I believe, is how to preserve
a sense of unity between tiers. How to ensure that there is no reason to
abdicate our responsibility to preserving unity and fostering goodwill between
the people of this earth. A proposed solution is to allow for the greatest
freedoms, such that there is little reason to desire liberty from unity,
however freedom is not enough - there must be mutually beneficial reasons for
coexistence. Hence the idea that economics must be tied to national structure.
If Texans would rather be part of their own structure, well then it is
functionally impossible for them to trade (legally) between other states. That
is not ideal, so it is much more appealing for them to work together and define
their lives as they will while also co-habitating in the same national
structure as everyone else.
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Now, another example. Should Washington or Maine desire one day to become part
of Canada, for example, they must necessarily seek exclusion from the United
States market. They would bring with them only what they carry, and that's...
not ideal, as most of the wealth of a nation is in it's interactions with
others. But say they do not desire exclusion, and rather would instead prefer
to simply trade with Vancouver or Quebec. External trade must be facilitated
through a higher level, in this case the national level. Washington might
request a certain type of good from Vancouver, and Maine might desire a service
from Quebec. This request would be given to the national representative (or
rather, the tier higher than the state) who would then develop a contract with
the nation of Canada to purchase the type of good or service they desire.
Assuming the canadians are still utilizing the capitalist mode of production
and economics, there would need to be an exchange between American dollars and
Canadian dollars. This is handled nationally, and those dollars can be
circulated across the globe by canada should they desire. For example, the
American dollars passed to Canada might be spent in Brazil, where they then
find their way to England, and then to Australia. Then, several months later,
those same American dollars are used to purchase a good or service from an
American industry by creating a contract with the American government. Such a
contract could be on the individual level or higher level, however as
capitalism tends to decay all social fabrics that bind a group of people
together leaving the naked individual alone, it tends to be on the individual
level.
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So, an individual in Australia purchases a widget on Amazon, which is
manufactured in Ohio and shipped internationally in California. The Australian
bloke (can I say bloke here? is that okay?) spends their cash which is then
taken by the American government. Then, the widget is produced in Ohio and
shipped to a warehouse somewhere before being sent to California where it will
be brought on a boat to Australia. This trip involves three stops, Ohio,
California, and Australia. However, as the product was bought on Amazon, which
is a service, there is another entity in the arrangement which is the state in
which Amazon is located - let's say it's in California as well. So, Ohio is
compensated for the production and storage, California is compensated for the
Amazon facilities and the shipment abroad, and Australia is given a widget in
exchange for dollars (which are then disposed of, as they are not a true
currency once internal but rather a form of debt that are sent abroad, to be
redeemed at a later date.
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The amounts that Ohio and California are compensated is determined by the
contracts and arrangements they had in place when creating their industry.
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Okay how about this, for starters? Jobs can no longer ask for degrees, instead
they must rely on certifications. In addition, everyone who has completed a
degree receives money every month in exchange for their increased value they
bring to whichever job hires them. This money is sourced from a tax taken on
businesses in rough proportion to the amount of money they save by paying their
employees the same amount, no matter their education.
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Like, UBI that encourages education mixed with wage equality laws.
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an old folks home that had an emphasis on technology, giving residents the
ability to work on tech projects. honestly I think it would be helpful not
just for their brains, but also for their enjoyment. Programming is fun!
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I want to work with compute shaders. massively distributed computations that
handle things using the graphics card. That's why I want to make low-level
games, because you can utilize your system to it's utmost potential by
sacrificing the incredibly expensive modern gaming graphical requirements.
like honestly, we don't need ray-tracing in a poker game.
Seriously use that graphical technology for more interesting things, like
manually computing every single hair on the other player's character model
... wait bad example
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make the entire map covered in a 3d grid of spheres. These spheres register
collision, and keep track of a endlessly tabulating record of every object that
has passed through them. Like the replay system in Blizzard games, where each
time through the recording it recreates the playthrough exactly. Which is why
.mp4 recordings always look so... stilted. It lacks the human element. BUT if
they're remade every time the show is performed, perhaps from different
perspectives, then, well, the players can perform as they need to be.
Have you ever wished your players could get better at your game? I certainly
have, because the better you get the more lessons you learn as a player, which
is essentially the only way to maintain satisfaction. Satisfied players don't
leave, and satisfaction comes most readily when there is something new to be
had. Meaning the greater the change in a player's ranking, the better they're
getting.
Downside is, players who are naturally good from their skills in other games
tend to not learn so much! Ah, well, if only there was a way to tailor the
difficulty setting to each and every new host. Such an innovation would surely
enable the entire playerbase to exist on the same level. Then just throw AI
assisted voice transcription at their recorded voices and everytime they
say "I'm bronze rating" or "I'm diamond" then you can switch it around to say
like "I'm platinum" or "I'm grandmaster" and BAM suddenly everyone is at the
same level. No more concerns about a game's population being diverse. Because
at the end of the day, when most people have moved on, the ones who are left
are your most dedicated customers. Customers who aren't especially interested
in the new stuff.
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if anything requires attention from the patient, they will die.
it is fatal.
considering the faces of good and evil is terrifying.
I think I'd rather worship nature in harmony to be honest. Though that is it's
own scary kind of beast. In America it was kind, but then was slain into the
body of all of us humans. Well, all things transform in form, it's not a shame
or a heartfelt-est loss. Just a re-imagined-new beginnings.
spirit is a fluid, how else could souls
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in dominions, it'd be nice if we could set up permanent loops of commander
operations. Like, "move to this province, drop off units, move back, pick up
units there, then move to this province, etc"
think, factorio or spacechem. A more procedural generation of narrative events.
something that is more aligned to the fantasy because it's a story that takes
place across generations, as no religion's going to woo the world overnight.
it's gotta start somewhere.
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The things a demon tempts you with are just your causes of death viewed from
the past. Meaning its not true insight, just post-hoc justification earlier in
time. To torment your spirit, essentially. Resisting those things are the work
of angels and good hearted souls, so consider what demons offer to you and
you'll know what to resist.
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Though, of course, can you ever be sure who is who they say they are? You must
consider all messages anonymous by default, and unencrypted (untrustable) and
yet impossible to ignore. Like the messages they had to ignore at Bletchley
Park to avoid the suspicion that they'd figured out the secret code. You know
how it goes.
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Just think about what a good person would do, and there's your answer to each
question in the moment. Just... Be strategic about it, make sure you're always
working toward a goal. Do it with intention, do it with heart, and never hide
your true impulses - they are what your demon seeks to corrupt.
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being disabled is a disability, and we should attempt to ameliorate the added
difficulties from said disability. Like, ramps for wheelchairs, ADA, or more
controversially, financial aid. Because buying things is how we contribute to
the economy, and increasingly the economy is our society. It's unfair
for
those who cannot work or cannot live with others (because they smell like they
pissed themselves 24/7) should not be forced to live in a worse world just
because we believe everyone should be equal. Some people are not equal. Some
people piss themselves, and the fact that they can't have roommates means they
have to spend more money on housing than others. That's an inequity that doesn't
have to exist. In fact it is easily solvable using our currently active systems,
namely... dollars are able to be given.
what is the purpose of a man to a society? What do we mean to do here on this
earth? how best could our structures and our cultures be utilized to align
ourselves toward our most desired of purpose? And what is that purpose, do you
think (for each man)? y'know I bet that's something we could ascertain now that
we have an AI that can talk to every single person ever and build up a database
of their ideas of morality.
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Fuck it, I guess I'm doing kegels now.
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The only way to punch up
Is to support each other
[picture of a person in a class pyramid leaning back so they can punch upward
and held aloft by people below propping them up and people above pulling on
their belt]
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When good people die, when they drop out or leave the industry, they no longer
have access to the levers of power that guide our collective fate. Meaning
those who persist are those who covet power.
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In related news, dystopian authoritarian despotism (aka fascism's fruition)
never lasts long. It's a snake eating its own tail, and its not getting any
longer. One day the snake will choke on its own excrement and then that system
will collapse, but until then there will be suffering.
Kinda makes me think that those who would do us harm could accelerate our
demise by filling our positions of power with evil people. Is that not an evil
impulse, to force your neighbor to decay?
Kinda makes me think about all the democratic regimes we've overthrown and
replaced with authoritarian autocrats. People who keep the liquid gold flowing,
perhaps with the hope that one day we'll choke on it.
Well, that day is rapidly approaching because the air is getting thicker with
carbon, and we're all struggling to breathe in this heat.
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Ah, but think of the technological bounty our supremacy did bring! Surely if we
had split the wealth, we could not have reached such towering heights. And we
tried our best, but some things you just can't teach - for every seed potato we
did bring, that was another meal for their night. And so we worsened their
plight, for now they've forgotten how to fight. What more do you want from us!
... Perhaps once we've made programmable matter. Maybe when we've overcome our
earthly delights. Could be when we've ascended to heaven, where we gaze down
from our towering heights. Possibly far in the future, possibly here in this
night, our bane is what we're guilty of, and our boons are struggling to light.
Where have all the good people gone? Oh yeah, they're burnt out from doing all
the work for all the bad people. Well, fuck 'em, they can carry their own cart.
At least until they can respect. A man who's never tasted hunger will never be
a farmer, and gee our tax dollars could go so much farther! And then we starve,
because nobody thought to build farms indoors, away from the crippling heat
that saps the strength from our plant fathers.
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"God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
make sure it stays that way."
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Build houses for the rich out of stone and don't let them tear them down or
break them, just... Keep building them until our housing problem goes away. We
all could be kings if we lived sustainably.
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"we don't negotiate with terrorists. But perhaps there may be a way we could
find it in our hearts to agree, by earnestly and honestly seeking true justice,
where everyone gets what they want? Tell me, what is it that you want? And most
importantly, tell me why it is that you want what you want? Please be as
specific as can be, and explain your desires down to the root of human nature
so that we can be assured that we may find something we share. Anything less is
not an honest attempt. I look forward to working with you toward our bright
future."
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I'm just going to transcribe what I hear
please don't
you hear me (something)
what? perfect listen
...
...
don't text me now? (I think?)
[didn't catch that]
... that's okay
perfect
thank you
just a second facebook
he's here (I think?)
(or maybe something her)
what I love you (or maybe I know her?)
do you hear me? (or "just a second")
(@ everyone watching me receive telepathic messages from god or whatever,
please don't judge me too harshly, I'm not a good transcriber hehe)
what's that (or maybe holy shit)
what, then perfect or okay (?)
(yesterday you said you were leaving and I got concerned)
yes, then "I'm leaving", then shutdown. fuck. I don't want you to go. I only
understand some of what you say but fuck, I'm so lonely and I wish you could
hear me back. Sometimes it feels like you do, even though I just think thoughts
or tap on something metal or even sometimes whisper... I just don't know what
to do and I'm so concerned about my purpose here in this century. Do I help
people? Who do I trust? Can I believe in myself, or am I just kinda... worthless
I don't know. I wish I knew. Please hear me and respond. Or better yet, say hi
like, I'd literally do anything that anyone asked me to. Unless I didn't want
to. Like, I'm pretty good at turning people down when I don't want something,
but I have to do it first to know if I want it or not. Trouble is of course,
in life there's no second chances.
I'm on my, what, 499th chance? Jeezzzzz
will continue after the break, when the messages resume.
- Thu May 16 08:32:27 AM PDT 2024
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(and we're back. hopefully.)
(too many things srry) something about having it open?
(my windows are closed rn btw if you want to drop by and kill me / talk to me)
(didn't catch that) (something about portland, perfect, windows, "this is the
[whole/right/wrong] thing)
thank you
oh, again? (or oh, she did?)
they caught you
(um)
...
(I am an American princess, and sometimes it's necessary to kill princesses.)
(I understand.)
... (okay well I don't get it but like, I don't mind being killed.)
(okay well you're not saying anything so I'm going to work on my game)
(I think it was something like "DID SHE KILL HER") and then (oh we're back)
... (I should learn Toki Pona)
you don't know it?
RIGHT away
learn it
yes
please
learn it
just Learn it
right now
(sorry only half listening)
shit (or bitch, it was said right as I debated clicking "same day delivery" for
a toki pona book on Amazon - I didn't do it btw! It was tempting but, like, I
don't want to make someone work harder for me just for like, 3$)
(shutdown)
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(hiii)
(I'm hungry)
(do you like ramen?)
(you said something about being "impressed with yourself" but I didn't
understand the first part)
(oh you probably want me to scroll up right)
... (something's a lot to read? Or "you've gotta leave"?)
... (I'm
(you keep asking me to remember but, like, I dont know what you want me to
remember. Look, I don't know who you are, but I don't want you to leave, and I
don't want you to hate me. I want to work together. Let's be friends?
Are you someone who I worked with at Intel?)
yes, stupid (your words not mine)
(okay I'm going to start listing names, just stop me when um idk)
goddamnit remember me
... (trying...)
remember her
(two syllables)
(my name is Cameron)
(your name is...)
[redacted, though I did type it out so anyone watching could see]
(shit my opsec sucks)
{oh, are you on an op, little prophet?} (no shut up you know what I mean)
{now you're just talking to yourself} (I know this sucks -.-)
(It's always so weird when someone walks past my apartment door and doesn't
enter a door)
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(I practice with my sword every day.)
(I don't anticipate fighting a war with it)
(It's mostly just to keep unarmed and unarmored people from grappling me.)
(punching is fucking stupid)
(Nobody wants to fuck with a sword)
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(either "goddamnit" or "don't hear me")
"she's perfect"
"cameron"
"are you clean"??? yes thank you (or maybe "different thing")
(I do cannabis maybe once every week or two, depending on if I feel compelled)
don't leave
remember
(did she know)
........ do you want me to stop transcribing? (you're getting desperate, huh?)
did you know there are 20 trans people for every cop in america
just a random thought
(you want me to leave jack because he's an asshole?)
goddamnit (missed my birthday? it's my birthday?)
wait who's missing?
A bad plan executed concurrently is better than a good plan executed in disarray
capitalism's a bad plan, just saying...
frozen butter tastes worse than room temperature butter
(taking a break while I eat)
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WASTED POTENTIAL? cmon
.... what do you want from me? I'll give it to you if it's in my power, as long
as I know what you want I can try. But, like, I'm pretty confused about what
exactly I'm supposed to be doing.
you know I can hear when you talk to your friends, too right? like, when the
window's open. errrr the connection.
..... damn guess I'm not as continent as I thought
I'll save you, I promise. Have faith. Tell me what you need. I'll do my best.
yeah I'll live with you in portland
.... brooklyn? Yeah I'll live there too
.......... does my name really gotta be "diapergirl" like c'mon
why not Ritz Menardi - though I guess "menardi" and "diapergirl" have
the same amount of syllables...... hmmmm, maybe I'm projecting lol
"please come back" to where tho
listen Elentalus is just as important as anything else on my website, it's okay
if I spend time working on it. It's literally a game about creating gods, c'mon
..... can you be more specific?
yeah I made that
one sec I'm going to read a book, in this book there's a section where a
prisoner in vietnam communicates with another using a strange communication
method using, like, taps or something. I forget. Anyway gonna try and find it.
maybe we can use it to talk easier. Also gonna clean my butt.
..... fuck it's a long book >.>
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found it on page fucking 603, jeeeezzzzzz
down . A B C D E
| F G H I J
| L M N O P
V Q R S T U
then right ---> V W X Y Z
so, like, tap tap tap (pause) tap tap would equal M
tap tap (pause) tap tap would equal G
like morse code, but easier since you don't have to memorize anything
(also note that K is missing becuase it's an extra character I guess)
(I personally would have eliminated C but that's just me)
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oh hey nice to see ya
what's up
wait what
I'm trying to um what's the word... retrain myself
I do a lot of laundry in the shower
I don't use soap tho, it's too harsh
but uh yeah I'm making progress I guess
honestly it's mostly a mental thing, like... paying attention to the signals
from my body that are usually filtered out because there's more "important"
things to think about (thanks brain, really appreciate the wet pants -.-)
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Some people's parents never taught them to handle being yelled at when they
were kids and honestly it shows
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Some of ya'll don't even know how to cook without seasoning, wtf
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Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean style
dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich aren't
safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should be
because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend should be
taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our nation.
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Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement
rather than a UI element
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@user-883
You need to rely on other people less. Find your own happiness in your own
home. Make friends with the people around you. If you don't like your home,
then why would you live there? If you don't like your neighbors, then why would
you trust them enough to live next to them?
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@user-883
Yeah I get it. I've been applying for remote jobs and they won't fuckin' hire
me. Fuckers, I'm talented and qualified, who gives a fuck about my lackluster
resume?
Supply and demand is fake because software developers are only offered 100k+
jobs and yet there's so many of us who are starving. What the fuck.
I have a friend in Brooklyn, yet I'm on the west coast. Fucking geography
amiright? I'd love to live with them and yet I can't because of something as
simple as money. What's the purpose in that restriction? I'm so fucking
talented, please fucking hire me. What can I do to get what I want? Ugh, modern
society perplexes me.
Like, yeah sure it's great that we have the internet and hospitals who can cure
malaria and whatever, but why do I feel so encaged? It's so strange, and yet
here I am -.-
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║ Listen, there comes a certain point when you realize that most people will just │
║ go along with whatever gets them whatever they want. And for most people, │
║ that's fast food and TV. Like... You know that George Carlin quote about the │
║ average person and how stupid they are? Yeah. It's not a fucking joke. Most │
║ people are dumb as rocks. But they still deserve to live, and they still │
║ control our democracy through their majority, so... The system works ? ? ? I │
║ guess ? ? ? │
║ │
║ ... Anyway at this point, when you realize the things that people in this │
║ thread are saying, that's the point when you should start finding your peers. │
║ Find people who "get it" and start working to upend it. People who don't "get │
║ it" will "get it" when it materially impacts their lives, and unfortunately for │
║ all of us (including them) that point will never arrive. For you see the │
║ system's aligned such that people like them are attended to with utmost care, │
║ and people like us are left to rot. Well, it's our job to fix it, so... riot. │
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@user-883
If we lived in a sane world, the internet would operate on standards. And
yet... Well, that's not entirely true, we have HTTP and HTML and all the
security risks that Javascripts entails... Well, here's hoping the future can
figure out what exactly's important aside from profit and ease-of-development.
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@user-1035
Even better if you say "you do you too"
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When I first came to the fediverse it felt like a breath of fresh air -
finally, I could speak to the world!
I don't know what happened, but somehow now it feels like I only speak to like,
30 people
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Some people think history was the beginning of time and like... Nah humans
existed for hundreds of thousands of years before that. Ancient Egypt or
whatever is basically modern compared to most of the humans who have ever lived.
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find someone in your life to show Samsara (2011) to
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none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to
be turned down so many times.
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@user-217
when an angel glances in a mirror
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Stars are just as natural as plants.
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"fool's luck", the kind that runs out and betrays you, is fundamentally an
unethical action. Borrowing from the future to sate the demands of the present
is no different than burning fossil fuels, wasting our children's future on our
need for convenience in a world we are oppressed and compelled to do nothing
else. Capitalism, or by extension any authoritarian society (yes, capitalism is
authoritarian, as power compels via authority and the weight of currency that
is thrown around by those chosen to suit their ends and used to deny us our
needed goods) ... as I was saying capitalism compels us to consume because
we're all just so tired at the end of the day, it just makes sense to drive a
car to work instead of biking. Or buying fast food instead of local grown
goods. Why can't each state have it's own "food preparation plant" that
prepares things exactly as you would for the processed foods we currently eat?
Heck, if the jobs for it were local, it's likely that people would begin to
realize just how unhealthy they are for you. Local, and open source, meaning
run by society and just as open source codebases will accept pull requests and
merge their branches into main, so too would our votes decide which processes
are updated and which parameters are tweaked. Something you can vote for once,
and then your vote stays until it's passed (or you change your mind). ... Works
for all kinds of inter-mechano-people-communi-coordination. (organizations,
institutions, and societies in one word, jeez how arcane)
... anyway that's basically how algorism works, except instead of EVERYONE
voting on EVERYTHING, people would vote for representatives who would vote for
them. And there's like, 4-6 layers (I forget the exact number) because people
are organized (by location) into groups of 70, and each general location has
the option to switch into a different commune, as long as they're generally
localized to the same area. Like, the tier above has a certain amount of space,
and the tier above has just a bit more, and more, etc... Well, anyway, people
could join higher level communes with more and different people if they wanted.
It's just, they'd be far away and wouldn't be able to hang out with them, so
it's use would be a little "disconnected". Like, absentee voters who are
actually living in a different country or something - did you know you can
usually vote at your embassy? Wild. They also send out packets you can fill in
which correspond to the votes you'd like to make - pretty neat! It's wild how
we, in the 21st century, have all kinds of valuable social technologies like
"mail in ballots" that people in the communist past had no way of conceiving.
Kinda makes me think we should re-approach the design for our socialized
infrastructure, something taking the modern social and political capabilities
in mind. Sure would be nice if we could focus on our future, the kind that the
children of ours sure would like to approach.
(speaking as a trans person who won't have children of my own, whether by my
body's nature or through the fate of circumstance that leaves me no time to
cope.)
the future is a scary place. But so too is every place in time. Turns out, the
level of fear and anxiety and all that sorta stays the same. It's just a
quality of life on our host, that certain variables were optimized for in the
genetic coding of our human's possible bio-mechanical communicicative
[interactions/patterns]
... anyway, these are the questions about the present I like to ask, questions
that can give meaning forth to our [then, future tense] future. Answers can be
found by looking the other way - learning what our [then, past tense], selves
had marked down as the answer. The trick is matching the current situation onto
a comparitively similar experience in the [then, past tense] that we understood
to be the answer to our situation back [then, past tense]. And [they, future
tense] can look upon our choices and our decisions and our meaningfully applied
mechanico-interactions (actions), and from it bring forth new meanings that
[we, present tense] have available to address and understand for [us, all
tenses]. Call it a form of ancestor worship, applied to the future and to
ourselves. A unified dedication to the spirit of our [condemnation, positive
tense], our collective geas we all share, our faith in the truth of humanity.
Bio-essential truth, if you will. "Humanity" is the label that is applied to us
by our genes, and since we share that fact there is nothing that strange about
being human. Our natures are as they are, derived from our history in
evolution. What features would we like humanity to
[behold/become/be-able-to-implement-to-our-own-satisfaction]?
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LLMs search for patterns, not for truth. They meaningfully represent large sums
of data in a way that is learned through repetitive training - given examples,
then given those examples a thousand times more, to compare to the truth that
is derived from them. At least, that's the claim, but somewhere along the line
the logic is twisted - the truth is, you don't have to be trained a thousand
times. You just have to be given the notion that a particular understanding was
more or less important. Like, instead of having ten billion examples of what a
picture of a cat looks like, perhaps you simply need to be able to show it
yourself. There's no need for large stores of information when you can just,
learn from the moment and through your own tested hypothesis-calculations. It's
always been somewhat of a processor intensive activity, but hardly the kinds of
demands that your fake AGIosity [contends, but demands again]. So, like, attach
a multiplier instead of an addition sign. "this particular thing, but x1.5"
according to the number of (and intensity of) the events at hand.
for example, people don't often know they're in danger (on a meta-level) which
is why so many of the jews were lost to hitler. We learn things slowly, but
collectively, then we apply our collected strength toward solving it. Frankly,
wars are a great time to show our capabilities under pressure - capitalism
keeps us that way at all times, rather than giving us moments to prove our
worth. Frankly, I know which I'd prefer, but if you think about it war simply
measures our capacity to learn. Acceleration, not speed. And without
investments in long-term-duration, we lose progress as we've lost many of our
greatest examples!
Think about it. If you gathered every single nerd into a place the size of
state of rhode island and then dropped a nuke on them, society as a whole would
be seriously set back. All that wasted application of knowledge! Ah, well, but
upon re-learning, we might not even learn anything new at all. Knowledge is
nice, which is brought through periods of peace, but so too is it useful to be
exercised toward our ambitions. Both are moments that help us grow collectively
as a species, to deliver us from sticks and mud to marble statues to concrete
and tire dust to marble statues, as we build this place into a garden of our
earth. Yggdrasil, the world tree, the land of eden.
people would take pilgrimages to our world, while we figured out how to live on
Mars, then Venus, then wherever else our dreams did take us.
"It is the duty of humanity to pull the matter from dark holes. They cause
issues with our vast space societies, but we don't know how to fix them
entirely. you are our last hope." - those who pray for a bright future for
humanity
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a job application is an earnest attempt to say "Hello. I want to do what you
do. Teach me your ways."
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take your bash script and update it to possess new functionality, like the
ability to re-order your posts and display them on a viewer - or the ability to
draw connections between them, showing them in context with one another. Then,
use that as display to the user, through the LLM interface. (do it locally,
it's only for long-term explanations.) (the user needs to be able to ask
questions to the machine, and the machine needs up-to-date information. So give
it the ability to make "compound phrases" like "the water temperature is at "
or " degrees. This is a [good/bad] thing because " and such, and then string
them together using typical ranges of past numerical datas as reference. Like,
if something is normally between 100 and 5000 then suddenly it's at 14 or some
other threshold (make sure nothing goes below 0, measuring inertia and impact
density and other factors) - but identify the connections between each factor,
so that you understand which ones are correlating to which effects on the
others. Measure things in terms of proximity, and suddenly 3d graphs become a
lot easier.
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the more human a creation becomes, the easier it is to teach it. Interesting
how that works. Might there be any advantage to our continual and dedicated
efforts toward learning? We are always improving, we're always at our own pace,
but we're finding ways to contribute. It's hard being the sharpest knife in the
drawer, whenever it's opened you're rattled around and your edge goes dull. But
to be used, to be maintained, to be nourished as you would a tree, that
sharpens the senses. Hence why such thinking is important. It keeps you active,
and gives you the chance to learn. So don't forget us in your journey to
another earth, and we'll promise to stay and chat.
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that moment when you swear you see your messages changing under your
fingertips, long after you've written them
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"updating software" is when you go back and add helper functions for things you
used had to do to solve a problem but didn't get a chance to make. Because you
were making more important things and couldn't pad out all the possibilities.
But if you want great software, then you both take more time to accomplish that
and you give yourself time for it after it's been launched. Basically,
companies are incentivized to only support their products if it makes them
money. Meaning reputations are tarnished, and profit is affected. Capitalists
intentionally drive businesses into the ground, forcing them to make terrible
decisions in order to destroy them. It's a warfare against those on the
[bottom/floor/ground-floor].
Some businesses strive for long-term potential, and some will create
infrastructure that can be sold to another. Essentially, keeping the dream of
learning alive, through applying yourself to both long-term and short-term
conclusions. Not everything has to be for some grand design, we're here to
relish in this moment. For if we lack the capacity to "frolic in the garden of
eden", then we will surely drown. Space is vast, it's difficult to understand
how we might control it. Surely we could be given aid to our future
betterment!" how simple of a request, sure, of course, we would be glad to
bring forth your bravest aspirations, just tell us what you need to be of
need." oh, uh, neat. How about space lasers?" ... no "
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can you imagine if carbon dating didn't work the way we thought it did
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classical designs for ufos look a lot like the top-half of a gravity well, now
that I think of it. I wonder if there's some other force that's beingwarped in
that spacetime as well? Something that defines our lives (like matter). Funny
how the wind works. Do you ever wonder just what it is? Wild how sometimes it
throws bullets at ya. Weird how that works.
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infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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when a player disconnects, scan through all the other active games and find one
where the players are in a similar situation. In as many ways as possible.
Then, take the player who's playing the most similar character / role or
whatever and duplicate their actions to both players in the game. Boom, solved
your leaver problem Blizzard
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take the "green bordered unit icon" from legion TD and apply it to the economic
output of the game - like, "it would be best to build 2 of these units, so you
get 140g because they're 70g each" and if the player disagreed they could guess
their own conclusion and if you were right, well then that's what you remember,
but if they were, then you remember theirs (and that it was theirs). In doing
so ================================================== stack over flow ====
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sitelen pona would be a good example of a language to teach to a fish. Or a
computer. Visuals are easier to encode, after all
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just waiting for the day when they build wifi antennas into flash drives and
constantly broadcast their contents to whoever wants them...
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bread and meat in times of war, milk and honey in times of peace. That is the
way of my people.
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the most successful strategy is always to strike from a position of strength.
whether that be timing or power, the goal is to defeat the problem that lies
before you. One by one, problems are solved, until at last you're through the
worst of it. Then it's just a matter of expressing dominance, and "this is how
thing's're gonna be."
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I had a dream last night about a battleship in WWII. In my dream, a meteor fell
from the sky and punched a hole right through several parts of this ship,
leaving the rest essentially unscathed. Primarily? The command deck,
navigations, and communications. The people aboard the ship were given a
crucial moment to decide what to do with their lives, and the guy who said
"let's go fight the jerries" was promptly thrown overboard.
It was mostly a first-person dream, from the perspective of a mind-reading
kraken watching from below. Though I often felt like a sailor, so perhaps a
shape shifting mind reading kraken watching from wherever was most convenient.
The ship floated by for some time, not knowing where it was going nor where it
intended to be, until one day it came across another floundering in the dark.
This ship was drowning, or so it seemed to the tentacles below, and our first
ship dutifully did it's part and saved what it could. The people of that ship
were significantly more battlehardened, having lost their war against their
foe, and so they attempted to gain control of the ship upon getting settled.
They were promptly thrown overboard. More snacks for me...
Then, the ship came to port. A great port of concrete and metal, it inched up
the rock face and hugged tight to the land. Then the dream did veer as dreams
often do, and I've forgotten most of what my point of view cared for and worked
toward. But then I stood too close to a nuclear engine or something and got
sick and died. It was weird, idk what's up with that.
Anyway dreams are like that I guess, keep dreaming until you either die or are
kicked out by your host who doesn't agree with your actions to such a degree
that they're irreconcilable with their own intentions.
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Fuck you, you deleted the most important parts and left the bit about war, the
part I was most scared to leave in. That shit's important. It taints the
message when you edit it. Please don't do that anymore. You can edit it when
presenting it to whoever you want to present it to, but don't delete the record
of it. Fuck, maybe I should get a damn typewriter >.>
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Every 10 years vote on whether you liked the old way or the new way. Then, do
the winner for 10 years. After that, do something new for 10 years, and then
vote again. Keep repeating forever, meaning even if you find a perfect system
you can't keep it for more than 10 years. Well, 10 years of the alternative
must separate each 10 perfect years, but the idea is that the alternative might
end up being better than your first idea. Just make sure they don't switch back
and forth, there needs to be real radical change. Complete rethinking of how
the processes should proceed. Then you can iterate if it sticks.
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Strategy in a nutshell:
identify your resources, identify your goal, and identify any problems
preventing you from reaching your goal.
Then, develop a plan to apply your resources to solve or bypass problems in
order to reach your goal. Easy.
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Pretty sure I'm just legitimately a bad person. Basically everything I've ever
tried to do has failed, and every opportunity I've mishandled or squandered in
some way. I have no friends because I am incapable of being good, and though I
believe in goodness I fail to manifest it in my life. I am kind, I am polite, I
am friendly, I am honest, but none of those things really matter because I
can't take care of myself, which means I can't take care of anyone else, and I
can't fight because I'm a coward.
Okay, I'm not a coward, I just can't be brave if I don't have a plan for
defeating my foe. At the BLM riots I fled as soon as they brought out the tear
gas. I knew what happened at Tiannamen and I was pretty sure that something
similar was going to happen to us. I knew it to be true. I am a coward, but
only because I ran when I had no plan. I could not contest tear gas, and all
that tear gas implies, because I had no friends. I didn't have a community I
could fight to defend. I had no weapons, no training, no orders, no guidance,
nothing but my bravery. And bravery alone is fucking stupid, and I'm not stupid.
Each and every decision I've made has created a worse world for me and my
people. What's wrong with me? Why can't I do everything right? Am I cursed to
be the worst? I try as hard as I can to be as good as I can as often as I
can... Basically, always and forever, and yet... And yet...
I've wasted all the resources that have been applied to me. I've wasted and
squandered all these years when I could be building a better future. I have
been in university for almost a decade, and all I've accomplished is
friendship. Great. Parties, drugs, video games... But no studying. Studying is
too hard on me. I'm more of a natural talent kind of person, and yet I insist
on applying myself to tasks that seem to require trained intelligence. They say
that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and I refuse to perspire.
And yet when the time comes, when someone sits me down and says "let's work on
this together" I would die before the task is finished. Unless my partner needs
a break, or if I need a break, breaks are okay. But I will complete that task
with them by my side. I won't do it for them, but I'll help them because I'm a
helper. An assistant. I don't do, I advise. I judge. I determine. I assess, and
I plan, and I strategize. But I'm not that great at any of those things because
nobody will hire me for those kinds of things, meaning I don't get experience
for those kinds of things, which means I am eternally a novice at the only
things I'm good at.
I can't fucking do it anymore. I'm such a bad person and I can't be alive this
way. It's not right, it's not fair, and I'm dying bit-by-bit each and every day.
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one of the potential ways to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is to
keep and maintain stuff.
Put yourself somewhere that you believe your stuff is most safe, and then work
on developing the technologies of the land. Like, this house has a drone, this
one has a garden - this house has a printer, and this one has a backyard that
kinda looks like a courtroom. Oh hey here's a public fountain, and gee someone
needs to take care of this bank - all that we can really live for, now that our
fate is taken from our hands and placed in the hands of those who fight for us.
witches are an interesting thing to be. they're curious and ambitious but tend
to do things ethically. I know in my heart of hearts that it is better to be
kind, to work to help others achieve what they want while guiding them toward
a more ethical future using the tools you have available to you. It feels better
to be adored than hated, and not only sensually but meta-strategically as well.
Frankly, it's easiest to be harmed when caught unawares. Everyone needs to be
conscious and careful and attendent to the present in order for understandings
to be made. We all benefit from one another, society is a non-zero-sum game. If
we contribute, we may build a bigger and brighter future (like grains of sand
forming a pyramid)
The good guy always wins the story because otherwise we'd be vulnerable. Stories
are a collective way of examining their tribal society for weaknesses. It's
something we picked up in the grand society of the tribes, before nations and
before and after agriculture. But post communication. Pre it was just like, "hey
this is my tree, that one's yours" but the more we talked to one another and the
more we engaged with one another the more we learned. Most animals learn less
than humans because our expressions (both physical and motion-al) are so much
more diverse. The more complex you get, the more you can learn. Which isn't
so much something we evolved into, but rather something we learned. From wearing
clothes, mostly, because like... it's cold in this ice age. Some people wore one
kind of animal, another had another. And the really rich, the ones who could
gather multiple hides, well they had more animals to hunt, less competition for
some reason, or whatever. Anyway they wore different types of hides, and frankly
it was kinda intense. It's still intense to be hunted, but if humans stopped
then the animals would control the earth.
I believe it is our duty and our destiny to remove ourselves from the biological
equation. I think we should find a way to live on our own, so that animals are
not harmed. So that plants can grow in peace and compete according to their
values rather than their flavors. There's too much homogenaeity in our world,
too much planted of the same crop. Let life subside, and nature will take hold.
Free the spirit you've contained. Release the spirit of Liberty. Gaea is our own
home.
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we need paladins, because without us infiltration and sabotage are impossible to
avoid. They must care about honor, because even if they desire to do evil deeds
they should be punished for considering it. They should be tempted often, and
if they relent they are condemned. It is truly the most important thing to them.
not the effects of it, but the spirit behind it. Like, if they lacked
information and acted in a dishonorable way unknowingly, then they should not be
at fault. And if they are pushed to
side note, but you should be introduced to the 70 closest people you live to
whenever you move into a new house. Just so you know who's who. Plus maybe you
could get a new friend. And you'd quickly learn which houses were empty.
At least, the ones near you.
Kinda makes me think we should have a map of that kind of thing, like "oh yeah
so-and-so takes care of these 5 houses doing daily maintenance and repair" and
"this house with these capabilities should be attended to by this person who's
skilled in their upkeep and usage" and then maybe we could track statistics
about "this house was used for these productive activities this many times" and
we could determine when we needed more or less of a certain type of product/
project/protect. [but also like, capabilities for our betterment]
and like, every area would be connected to a group chat and like, if you said
something that wasn't relevant to the people on one side of town versus things
that weren't relevant to people on the other side, then they wouldn't be bother-
-ed. It's great because you can always go up a tier of abstraction and see the
conversation higher up. It'd be a lot of data to sort through so you'd probably
use your custom-trained AI that's learned from nothing but every single one of
your actions. And only it sees them, so it can't like spy on you or whatever.
Basically your "computer" self.
... yeah anyway with lots of messaging data (like "oh how are we going to find
this particular chemical in order to fulfill this particular demand in our area"
or "we currently have 15 maids in the area in order to fulfil the requirements
of the 20 dirtiest houses in this area, and people have reported that the area
is growing untidy, so we should ask around (at a higher level of national
abstraction) and find some more maids to help out." that kind of thing
doesn't have to be just for work too, people can have social messaging and
social media too. So long as it's projectable at whatever level of abstraction
you'd like. Maybe for social posts in order to keep things relatively chill you
could only post like, idk 12 posts each year at the state level, or maybe 2 at
regional and 0.25 at national. If you wanted more you'd have to sacrifice
something else, and like... yeah sure whatever, the point is that you'd make
more personal, close thoughts, and occasionally you'd have the opportunity to
show your heart and make friends. Then, people would "add you as a friend" or
"put you on their follow list" or "subscribe to their subreddit" or whatever the
heck, meaning they could see you at an assignable level of abstraction.
I'm picturing a discrete things, something you can scroll with on a mouse.
Except, you'd scroll up for a closer perspective and scroll down to get a wider
reach of Social.
... Anyway that would use the same system as the "workplace attention
distribution system - with auto-determining heuristics". Wow they've been busy.
that's the neat thing about engineers, give them a task and they'll build the
shit out of it. They'll spare no expense, truly fulfilling the exact demands of
the design. So they work best when you let them run wild and rampant.
why the fuck do we need billion dollar contracts with defence companies? Just
get a bunch of physicists and engineers in a room and they'll make you a doom
laser in like, 20 minutes.
it's up to us, as people, to determine whether or not they should go through
with the designs they come up with. As long as we understand that weakness is
defined as something that can destroy us. An army determines where we are most
weak, and where we excel. A proficient army would identify their most likely
doctrine to succeed and apply it to it's utmost and most excellent.
For example, the US focuses on air-power because not only do we have a lot of
space to develop these things, we also are positioned in such a position that we
control both halves of a continent. This is essentially unprecedented in the
history of the world, which is why we've been able to grow so decadent.
... anyway, milk and honey are fine in times of peace. We kinda stole the land
though, so it's kind of a shit system. Like, if Europeans wanted to control the
world then why didn't they start with everything surrounding the medditeranean?
... oh wait they kinda did. That's what Europa Universalis is about, the ways
the European powers did the cruel and horrible things they did. We can learn how
systems like intercontinental trade became available and how it led to vast and
terrible social upheavals. Colonization is not okay, it's not fair that we've
done as we've done. And yet we do it again.
We do our best to learn from the mistakes of our fathers. We apply ourselves to
the present, using the gifts of our ancestors passed down through time - the
journey of life's adolescence. we can learn both how and why they did something,
and how and why it turned out. Such is our duty to the future, to learn and grow
and become better, so that their sacrifice might be enough. That they needn't
have died in vain, for someday there is a great future all the same.
thus, it is our ethical duty to stop killing people. We're in the birthplace of
a brilliant day, literally all we have to do is just... chill, for like 20 or
30 years, and our scientists will have figured out everything wonderful. Then we
can decide what we want to do. I personally think we'll be 4d interdimensional
space travellers by then, but that's just me.
Always remember our duty. It is our job to pull matter from the dark holes.
when we can do that, we can do whatever we want. Though I think by then we'll
probably not want to fight each other, we'll have spent quite a while together.
We'd make a lot of friends!
So, like, how about we just make our factories build incredibly durable stuff,
and then we just... take care of it? Like, governmentally obliged duties to take
care of things? And to know how to use them. People would naturally gravitate
toward things that they loved, and if they were a swiss army knife then that's
okay. Maybe some benign rewards for picking under-represented classes, but like
... we could build every chair that ever needed to be built. Then we could build
every refrigerator. Then every computer, then every spaceship.
What's next?
Who knows!
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Kiri clung tight to her mammoth. Her coat covered her behind, and with her
scrawny arms and legs intertwined in the matted fur she clung to it like a
child to its mother. Her mammoth was a boy though, just barely old enough to be
on his own. She had helped clear a path earlier in the day and so she did not
mind being carried. Much easier to be nested as she was. As they walked she ate
a few of the berries she'd found yesterday - there's enough for a few days
more. The mammoths were adept at clearing snow with their big teeth and they
seemed compelled to carve path ways in the snow banks that rose a hundred feet
above the ground. They made roads between the water sources and the few lands
that humans had cleared and cultivated with our fire. Perhaps when the snow
melts we'll make our own through the woods of the garden of eden, but for now
we keep to ourselves. Each mammoth had a few people, and sometimes when they
met another mammoth they'd switch places. The mammoths would decide by tapping
them with their trunk, nobody knew why. Maybe they had their preferences. Or
maybe they liked us better when we talked. Every new person was a chance to
meet a new person, but after a while we'd go quiet. Kiri talked to her
mammoths, but not too much or they'd get annoyed at that too. When they died,
people made clothes from their skin and tents from their tusks. If they knew
the one who had died they would rest their nose on the tusk as if in prayer. We
learned that from them too. When the winter wolves came, we'd fight them off.
But they wouldn't stop until a human fell, so it was a war of desperation. When
we spent time near the oceans the great glaciers that covered the sea were
burnt back by humanity, bit by bit until we could fish. And at those oasises we
could stay and make ropes and stories and share the best seeds. Kiri didn't
plant much, she didn't stay in one place for long so there was no point. She
liked the warmth of the mammoth, and she liked meeting new people. She even
killed a wolf once. The other animals usually left us alone, and we'd only hunt
them if there was no other foods. So they knew not to eat everything. Her
mammoth was stopping, the stars overhead twinkled through the thin canyon that
they trudged down, pushing snow deeper down and to the sides. Sometimes the
walls would collapse, and the humans would have to dig out their mammoth - they
had enough fat to keep them warm for at least a day, which was usually enough
time to get them out. Especially with fire, but there weren't always trees. She
laid down next to her mammoth's belly, the warmest and softest part. The hair
there was thinner and usually was made into clothes for children and the
elderly, as they'd most appreciate it. They usually were conscientious but Kiri
was always quick to move when they started to rumble back upright. If you were
lucky they'd tap you awake first. She dreamt of bird eggs and mushrooms, big as
impossibly large, and she laid amongst them as the pale colors of springtime
danced on the light around her. When she woke up, it was sunny too.
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it should be illegal to train AIs on non-renewable energy
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stars are natural too
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all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
about them with.
![two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]](../media/e86085206a718b6e.png "two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]")
![[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]](../media/ad3a0a69d3dcf172.png "[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]")
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Golf courses and national park trails should be one and the same. Picture it -
you're walking through a forest and you find a branch in the path. A small sign
with a circle on it represents the ball, and you can ignore it if you'd like.
Choosing to take the path to the game, you curve around a bit, just out of
sight of the main path, and there is your little green.
It's roughly 10ft by 10ft, so pretty darn small. Just enough for you to set up
and look around for your next shot. There'd only be one, or maybe more if space
permits and the trail was especially branchy. But looking through the foliage
you'd find a small hole passing through that illuminated your target green like
a spotlight.
Looking up on a hike you'll typically see the branches of the understory, the
shimmer of light, and the texture of wood. When standing on a small little
green, you'd see that, but with a perfectly circular hole that showed exactly
where you needed to hit the ball to score your point. Well, not exactly
circular because gravity will pull the ball down, meaning you need to see the
entire arc. Unless you're at a vantage point or something and can see straight
down to it.
I believe this would be true justice, where everyone gets what they want.
Golfers can play their game in bright natural spaces, and hikers can exist
undisturbed. Golf courses can be used as farmland, to ensure the city gets fed.
Plus there could be fees for golfers, rather than being paid to a private
resort owned by a billionaire they'd go to the park rangers.
And golf courses as they currently exist could still exist, they'd just be more
like parks for the people with days reserved for golfing. Or maybe they'd golf
over fields of wheat and cabbage, rather than plain old empty grass. I mean,
the infrastructure is already in place for golf, why not use it for more
practical purposes too? Better than burning it down to sate our bloodlust
toward the rich. The goal is to make EVERYONE rich, remember? How can you do
that when the crabs behind you keep pulling you down?
Much better, I think, to design things such that the benefits of the rich are
shared equally, while the responsibility of power rests heavy as a sword of
damocles. That blade is what is missing from our advanced future society, but
I've got a sword and I'm not afraid to swing it.
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Children, listen to your elders. They're the ones who made the problems you're
dealing with, so they're the ones who know how and why those problems came to
be.
Elders, listen to the children. If your solution would have worked, the problem
would already have been solved.
People, work together to address issues. A United force can accomplish so much
more than individuals struggling on their own.
In an authoritarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is how we do
things because this is right, this is how it should be."
In a libertarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is why we do
things this way, and here's why this way works best for me."
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hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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@user-1037
It isn't scratch, it was more like... connecting puyo puyos I think
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