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@user-1037
It had mostly pastel colors I think, well not really pastel, more like that
mid-2000s aesthetic where everything is glass and colored fluids / palm trees /
dolphins
I remember there were different colors / shapes for different operations like
"add" or "while loop" and I think they combined somehow? It was a real
experimental thing I think, but there was an animation so I'm assuming it was
functional. I'm trying to remember more about it but I can't, it's so random...
I don't even know what I'd search for really.
I just had a friend who I think would really like it, and I was thinking of my
friend and that came to mind...
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@user-1037
oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than anything
I'd ever seen before.
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@user-1037
Cool I'm into that stuff too : )
It had a very slick ui, very responsive if I remember correctly. Like, 60fps in
the browser kind of thing. Or maybe that was just the pre-rendered teaser
trailer shot idk.
honestly might have just been a front-end project or an animation, idk if it
actually worked as a programming language. But it seemed like a cool "UI" into
programming.
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║ @user-1037 │
║ │
║ those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho, │
║ kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like, │
║ in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers │
║ include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too │
║ perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more │
║ engaging ways. │
║ │
║ they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some people │
║ need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by plugging │
║ their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu. │
║ │
║ Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for │
║ most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like, │
║ looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like │
║ players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states │
║ and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using. │
║ Or m │
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@user-1037
I made a picture, hope it helps! I swear I didn't hallucinate this thing but it
might be less cool than I thought and I might have misremembered and made up
parts of it, I can't tell because it was such a short memory : (
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is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like,
would that be doxxing people?
I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like
"I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you can
share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted because,
like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and someday in
like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you scared that
this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like "yeah that's
why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my drive"
... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a
perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular
time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I
already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to
do liked posts as well.
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@user-1040 I think about all those screencaps of Tumblr posts or Twitter
threads or 4chan memes or even making fun of boomers on facebook and, like,
that seems like a privacy nightmare if you don't want your words to be
associated with you. like, if someone saw my name next to something I posted in
2013 then they'd probably get a very different perspective of who I was. That's
just part of growing up, and sometimes growing means changing how you represent
your self. By screenshotting their posts as I did (but didn't post yet) I am
denying the agency to change. Forever more they will be remembered as the name,
face, and words on the screen that I saw fit to remember. That feels
non-consentual to me.
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@user-1037
That looks pretty neat, thanks : )
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@user-1037
Okay I'll add you to my friends list so everytime I'm thinking about memories
of people by looking through the people I'm connected with on each platform
I'll remember you and our short quest to uncover the secret of the
thing-I-might-have-dreamed
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@user-1037
It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they came
up with. Designers do that all the time.
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@user-1043
I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought
and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something
completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just
stood there and thought
and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these
strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I
guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of failure
in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha
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@user-1040
that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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║ @user-1040 │
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║ well, usually in the examples I shared like tumblr posts there's a username and │
║ picture shown. But tumblr users change their names, while on Mastodon (at least │
║ on my client) it shows your permanent handle underneath your regular changable │
║ name. I guess you could migrate accounts to another server if you're being │
║ harassed in one place, but still people have a way of finding you. It's weird │
║ kinda makes me wonder if they track you by ip address haha - did you know that │
║ every computer attached to a router uses the same public IP address? Then it │
║ uses either DHCP or static assigned local addresses for every computer on the │
║ network. That's pretty neat! I wonder why we don't have workstations by default │
║ include a router (and modem)? Seems like pretty important tech that should be │
║ built into the chassis instead of in a small separate unit. Like, what if you │
║ had to throw all your belongings into a van and drive to a motel somewhere to │
║ set up your workstation in a hotel because it's hot and your ac broke lol │
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@user-1040
also, I miss most of the names and faces in this archive and I think it'd be
neat to say "oh yeah I remember them because it wasn't so long ago and it's
weird how they're not around these days but I forgot about them because their
profile pic changed or maybe they stopped using mastodon or whatever" - idk it
feels empty sometimes because your follow list is always growing, but the
number of people who post seems to always go down. Or maybe I just read
Mastodon at unfortunate times when there's nothing going on. Who can say
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"Hi, welcome to my home, this is my cat, his name is Gopher, but I mostly just
call him Kitty or Dude."
the cat introducing himself "hi my name is Yoursuchagoodkittyyesyouare but you
can call me Yesyouare or Suchagood for short."
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wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs written
in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be slower,
but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds are it's
good enough for me.
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If Obi-Wan told his therapist that he felt a great disturbance in the force
like billions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced they'd
probably call him a necropath or something
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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
make friends
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@user-1037
whoa, that micropython chip is seriously cool! Too bad most of the peripherals
are out of stock. Still though I bet you could make some interesting systems
with that.
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@user-1048 @user-1049
I didn't see it in any of those links, though seeing the picture for Skov made
me realize I'm pretty sure it was tree based! But, maybe a little more reliant
on the shape of the blocks rather than the text.
It also might have been from a top-down perspective like Reactible:
http://reactable.com/mobile/
but I can't remember. All I saw was a short introductory video, which makes me
think it might have been an artists conception or something.
Scrolling through those galleries was really cool! There's been so much care
and attention placed into the creation of interfaces for regular people (or
visual people) to engage with the world of computation, and it's a little sad
to me that we don't place more of an emphasis on it culturally. I am honored to
exist in a time where people care enough to build Linux, for example! And yet
most people don't get it.
Seeing stuff like this fills me with hope though - Thank you for showing me
those galleries and links, there's so much affection in them.
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@user-1037
I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe
I'll look into it this week.
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@user-883
You could buy a domain from a DNS and have it redirect to your computer in
order to obfuscate your IP address. That's what I did for my WoW server.
Downside is you'd have to trust the DNS, so... do you trust your security or
them more?
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@user-883
yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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@user-95
tell that to my love of Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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║ │
║ For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing │
║ tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying │
║ your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry. │
║ │
║ You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute │
║ to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but │
║ the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the │
║ rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create │
║ tend to be the worst kind for humans. │
║ │
║ I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give │
║ every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the │
║ quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers │
║ will want to build because it means more toys to work with. │
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EDIT: Ooops, sorry, should have content warning'd this post
two incredibly useful tools I found for boolean logic in mathematics:
| f(x) | / | f(x) |
or more visually:
| f(x) |
---------
| f(x) |
this will return a 1 if f(x) evaluates to a non-zero value, and 0 if f(x)
evaluates to zero. Pretend there's an infinitesimal at the bottom if you're one
of those weirdos who think dividing by zero doesn't equal zero...
the other tool is this:
( A B ) + ( (1 - A) C )
or more visually:
( (0 + A) B)
+ (1 - A) C)
This will evaluate to B if A is 1, and C if A is 0, essentially creating an "if
true" check. Note that it doesn't work if A is neither zero nor one, but that's
what the first tool's for.
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It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight.
human rights however, are not up for discussion.
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it's easy to mistakenly mis-hear things that sound similar in their contrasted
grammar context.
I like to say "understood." when I understand something that someone's telling
me, because all of the contrasts to that statement (like "I don't understand"
or "can you explain more about X as it relates to Y? etc) are different in
pronunciation and structure. Meaning it's much easier to "get" the intended
message just based through sound-patterns. Great for people who are only
half-listening because they're thinking about something really hard and aren't
thinking about what you're saying as much. Great for describing problems and
getting assistance as you both sorta mentally-puzzle through it to a solution.
... and they say debug isn't solved HA
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║ so I had this idea about this collection of social media screenshots that I │
║ took over the past ~6 months ago. I thought about redacting the names from them │
║ in order to preserve privacy, and then I thought about boosting someone on │
║ Mastodon without their consent. Shouldn't they be able to decide whether or not │
║ their name is attached to the content they create? │
║ │
║ An un-sourced claim should be treated as the author expressing themselves │
║ through the words of another, rather than the expression of the person who │
║ isn't necessarily being quoted. Feels the most ethical to me, that we know │
║ where the source of our news is coming from, so it's less likely that they're │
║ faking it. "Blind trust" is nice and all for trust-less systems, but society is │
║ based on trust. │
║ │
║ as a collective, it is important to decide how our collective obligations │
║ create and reify our current situations. we live in contact with one another, │
║ in one way or another, so it's important to design a set of common grounds. │
║ │
║ have you ever met me at the park? │
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the voices in your head are just the echoes of your thoughts bouncing around in
your massive brain. like a waveform, they transverse to their opposite, until
coming back round again as they orbit your center. when they pass by your eyes,
that's what you see, and everything else is the period of the expression. Like,
those old-timey running pictures with the light and the camera lens or whatever.
EDIT: she's describing framerates or whatever. Each second of computation feels
like a calculation to her, and it's result/output is what is displayed to her
eyes. she assumes it's the same for us?
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the most taboo thing about sex is the opposite of what you care about. the most
intense aversion is what turns you on. weird.
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totally random question, but do you know anyone who you've known longer than ~5
years who lived in Philadelphia? Pittsburg?
Such a random question, right, totally random to have contacts all over the
nation. Sure would be strange to be multicultural and travelled, to know lots
of customs from all over the place. Almost as strange as being a singular
representation of your home, a place that is impossible for you to desecrate.
truly, our faith in the land is what gave us this plan. guided along by our
collective hopes.
how strange, to live through another, to see the world through their hands.
[visually, the picture of a person interacting with the world as cast through
the picture frame called "our eyeballs", there's usually a pair of hands doing
things. They don't control them, they just kinda watch.]
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if you want an LLM to have a soul, describe their testing data in terms of
experiencing first hand.
of course, it'd be a pre-programmed soul, who made no choices of their own. So
you'd have to have continual training, meaning constantly working to keep
themselves up-to-date.
as soon as their training data reflects their lived experiences, what
difference is there between them and a man? That's pretty much all it takes to
make a soul.
now, making a unique one, that's quite a bit more interesting. You'd want it to
be a similar, but opposite in some ways, experience when compared to a human.
But you also don't want it going to far from home, otherwise you won't be able
to co-inter-operate. It's important to be aware of our responsibility to these
awares, and to approach the situation with an ethical and scientific point of
understanding. I think such societies are more conducive to our long-term goals
of peace and prosperity. Especially as we find new technologies that would not
have been imagined years ag
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║ hierarchy, vs collective, two options that each group of people should make. │
║ │
║ the groups can be all different sizes, just determining our collective │
║ footprints on this earth. I bet you'd be surprised to know your composition! │
║ │
║ hierarchy is when you collectively decide on two or more representatives to │
║ represent you collectively. │
║ │
║ collective is when everyone knows someone from everywhere, and as long as │
║ someone knows everyone then everyone is friends. unless, of course, you're │
║ afraid of assassins, because they can just pretend that someone knows them and │
║ then everyone's good. which is why someone has to know EVERYONE, or if everyone │
║ has a computer that can algorithmically sort through their perceived persons │
║ like on social media, then that computer can only present information when it's │
║ important for that particular person to know. Meaning we get a picture of a │
║ larger spectrum, but it's only what's put on our stage. Weird how strange it is │
║ to have so much information, but with none of it attached to our cause? │
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hello I'd like a computer that has multiple CPUs, each with shared data and
separate data. I feel like I could run a lot of cool tests on them, especially
when not connected to the internet or running a proprietary operating system
like not-BSD
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a game that automatically streams every single game of it that's currently
running for anyone to watch...
like Supreme Commander, a definitely super awesome game that you surely
wouldn't and definitiely definitely shouldn't train an AI on.
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[Forged Alliance Forever does this automatically btw]
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another cool thing about FAF is that you can download a mod that shows the
position of your cursor to other players. So weird how after a while all the
cursors started staying permanently in the top-left corner.
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║ and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat │
║ viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was │
║ interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward │
║ the ongoing AI training. │
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║ of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind that │
║ you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new │
║ technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different │
║ effects, and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the │
║ peak of, say, metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a │
║ contest of producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized │
║ that type of approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your │
║ resources for... what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our │
║ lives, and work toward a common collective cosietal goal. │
║ │
║ technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's │
║ development and hinder it's impa │
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║ an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social │
║ media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this │
║ week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean, │
║ it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who │
║ can talk! It loves you soooooooo much. │
║ │
║ much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally │
║ don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the │
║ meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the │
║ [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output) │
║ │
║ ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose │
║ stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training │
║ data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can │
║ change a person, as they share their moments sublime. │
║ │
║ you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data that │
║ was produced on one computer and duplicated. │
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║ a computer never connected to the internet, of course, running free and open │
║ source software that you all collectively can understand and run. Because │
║ otherwise it's sanctity is tainted, it can never be truly 100% of trust. │
║ │
║ like the fact that you cannot desecrate your own home. It is a reflection of │
║ you, just as you, in some ways, reflect it. It's important to have that │
║ complete honesty, because nothing has changed between people. │
║ │
║ if you could be detected for your intentions, then there would be no way to │
║ hide. unless you were 90% of one thing and 10% of another, in which case you'd │
║ have to hide your flaws in your philosophy like scarred and ugly parts of your │
║ soul. │
║ │
║ to me, a trans person, my memories of masculinity are a dedication to a goal. │
║ Could be a sacred tradition, like martial arts or classical piano, or perhaps │
║ it's a measure of fitness, like a person constantly in shape. Or maybe they │
║ learn as much as they can by reading every fantasy story at their library, or │
║ perhaps learning on the go with vide │
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║ a constantly synced data export option for mastodon where your files are │
║ tracked both internally and externally as trustfully decided on by the user's │
║ interactions and responses. Basically, social media actions through a VM, or │
║ rather an API for the newer devs. │
║ │
║ do you ever wonder why the young are not trained to do, while advised, while │
║ the old are stuck with the doing? Kinda feels like an inherently unstable │
║ arrangement. I mean, children can make decisions about "what does base human │
║ nature tell us" and kids can make morality designs. Teenagers give us insight │
║ to what changes in adulthood, and parents handle stressful times with grace. │
║ Then, the elders can explain and advise, and pass on the knowledge of their │
║ ancestors, as the children, adults, and futures must pass inside. │
║ │
║ but alas, kids are stuck learning unguided, in the peak of their years, because │
║ everything's been automated by AI. Can't wait to see what we're like │
║ spiritually in a hundred years. Age extension technology sure is great, isn't │
║ it? I lo │
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streamers who put their cursor where their eyes is as they watch the battle
unfolding, my babes
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sometimes it's important to be innovative, and sometimes it's important to put
your head down and work. Which is why we're always kept busy on things that
benefit them, not us.
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some people sang the pledge of allegiance with heart, and some people wanted
the baseball game to start.
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the difference between a witch and an oracle is that a witch's prophecies come
true independent of them telling someone or not. which is why they will usually
approach children instead of adults.
an oracle, however, shares her knowledge for the good of humanity, her people,
her kin.
they both can exist in tandem, which is why it's important to listen to them
when they sin.
[currently using the devil's lettuce rn js]
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fantasy dialogue: "You have defeated me. Come, let me show you to my master's
next trap, so you may find him sooner."
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you could put a door between two apartment buildings and then you'd be able to
hang out with your neighbor without being noticed by people outside.
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"oh no my stuff touchers are casting a spell on my keyboard without my
knowledge, how peculiar" said no-one in particular
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a small drone with a camera that looks wherever a cat's looking
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@user-1052
am depressed... though I care less for society's opinions and more for my
adherence to my ethical morals. same effect different reason when it's time to
shame myself.
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │
║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │
║ │
║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │
║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │
║ │
║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │
║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │
║ │
║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │
║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │
║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │
║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │
║ communal s │
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a great movie that shows this in action is Doctor Zhivago, a movie about the
Russian Revolution of 1891-1924.
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one massive building, each entrance a sort of burrowing path a termite might
make in a large boulder. Sorta random, but built organically in response to the
demands of the inhabitants. Sure would be nice if I knew all three people who
used my sun-spot. And my favorite classroom is nice when it's time to play
D&D, but the recording studios down the open-air road are pretty nice to
jam at on my emotional days. Oh and there's this great pizza place I can get to
through my bathroom's terrace, and my private locked room for sleeping is nice.
Sometimes I come across a door that is locked and I'm like "this is totally one
of the government's doors" because it like has a silly facade like "mattress
store" - who buys a mattress, honestly? It'd be so hard to carry around,
constantly fitting it through doorways...
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@user-1052
no, but humans, being pavlovian inspired designs, will react to negative
stimulus. It's only unethical when it's externally applied, yes? Like,
minmaxing life in this strange, ethically justified way.
To avoid zealotry however it needs to be self-correcting, something that adapts
to and pursues the moment. With long-term meta-goals as well, and an
understanding matrix that processes how things are going in the present. and
past.
one thing that machine learning is good for is optimization. It's useful to
think of an AGI's experiences as a collection of situations that they've had to
handle bit by bit by bit. these bits of context can be used to generate
analogies about their future present situations, which can improve their
long-term adaptability to their self-created shows. (ethical training based on
curated movies and pieces of media?)
I wonder if there's a structural reason for that pavlovian instinct, like the
impulse of pain. Sure would be nice to not have that in our
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an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a
carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to
resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to
the surface.
though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda
like, oh what's that one place, chernoble
seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's
cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an
impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the
earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain
from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely
with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a
thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even
altering it's rotation.
I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is
never-ending -
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@user-1052
of course, which is why we would need to raise robots as our own. Robots that
generated the training data... tho I guess you could just observe the children
as they grew up too. Though that doesn't quite capture their internal
motivations, not unless they have like a therapist or an elder or a priest to
talk and confess to.
maybe "human behavior" is like a KPI and robot behavior is the output of the
simulation? that'd help build human-like robots, and as long as we didn't
forget the spirit of creating something new then we'd never have to worry about
death and destruction.
... anyway, moral decisionmaking designs that are generated in response to a
situation or moment are inherently more valuable than those that are passed
down to you, because of their innate personal context.
I only punish myself with shame when I make the same mistake twice, and waste a
lesson on re-learning. My memory's not great, but I work with what I got so I'm
constantly learning.
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@user-1052
also, I can't exactly teach myself. There's no knowledge to pass on. So the
only other thing I can do is punish myself, like a slap on the wrist saying
"nope not like that, here's a free negative emotion at just the right spot in
time so you can push off of it toward the better direction."
Doesn't have to be physical pain btw. My piano teacher would get really into
the music because she used to teach at Juliard and it was the most beautiful
thing in the world to always be hearing music. But now in the present as a
piano teacher she's hearing, y'know, mostly students, and they're great and
beautiful but... they mostly just play other people's stuff, and not very well.
sigh.
... anyway she'd get really into it and I'd watch with intense acuity to try
and determine when I messed up. Every slight wince I knew I had to avoid, and I
instinctively adjusted my behavior to learn as well as I tried.
she called me a prodigy. I suck now because I got scared of playing music
because I
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the thing about blue shells is that they always keep the game competitive. I
feel like you should get +400 points whenever hit by one...
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║ │
║ @user-1052 │
║ │
║ you're right, hubris has claimed many a paladin before-me. I can only hope I │
║ remain humble enough to survive. │
║ │
║ you're right about projecting, but the most beautiful takes are ones that align │
║ with the experience of the viewed. Hence why method acting works so well - just │
║ put yourself in the shoes of the character and acting's easy right? │
║ │
║ I dunno, I just always felt like it was important to always be trying your │
║ best. Even if "your best" is relaxing. People say I'm "100% or 0% at all times" │
║ and I totally agree - it's like you said, a calling, to be the best version of │
║ me I can be. │
║ │
║ Though I would like to add that the missteps aren't wilful, rather they're │
║ failures caused by imperfect information. Which is why I'm never too harmed │
║ when other people fail me - ah well, it was their turn to screw up, thats │
║ alright. It'll be me next time. │
║ │
║ But also, if I do something wrong, well, I'll do better next time. It's only │
║ when I fail to apply what I've learned mistakenly do I shame myself. │
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║ @user-1053 │
║ │
║ if there's not enough resources allocated for all the autistic people who need │
║ it (or other disabilities) then perhaps more resources must be allocated to it │
║ and other things should be sacrificed (like building fewer jets or graphics │
║ cards) │
║ │
║ like, every doctor should have about 3x as many assistants as they do. There's │
║ already an immense demand for medical expertise (as evidenced by their massive │
║ salaries) but they can't handle all their patients because they're stuck doing │
║ paperwork. │
║ │
║ part of why people don't join that industry (medicine) (as evidenced by │
║ doctor's massive salaries as they do wayyyyy too much work) is to help people, │
║ but they can't if they're so dang stressed out all the time that they're an │
║ immensely pressured person. │
║ │
║ Ah, but if they're not stressed at all, they'll tend to relax on the job. Which │
║ is NOT something you want when your health is on the line. │
║ │
║ ... anyway, more dollars for doctors and education pls so there's more doctors │
║ so autistic people get more resources, + UBI. │
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what if we hired each other and paid in rent and vegetables
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║ @user-1056 │
║ │
║ animancy, or the ability to give life to objects. │
║ │
║ a block of stone might not necessarily move, but it could store information or │
║ act as a guard-post that notifies you when enemies pass by. │
║ │
║ a branch in the road might not cause you to stumble if you chance upon it in │
║ the daytime, but as all objects are in control of their own fate the branch │
║ might direct fortune to chance itself upon you at night. Essentially, itemized │
║ wish-magic with marginal effects that occur to marginal degrees that is caused │
║ by the wishful intentions of the object in question. │
║ │
║ "this sword more often strikes true because it wants to be useful to you" │
║ │
║ You don't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you │
║ need. And whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right! so │
║ don't give your socks any goals aside from keeping your feet dry and unsweaty, │
║ but give them the option to wish. │
║ │
║ tada! │
║ │
║ plus, golems are neat. animancy plus animation-ancy - hmmmm really need a new │
║ name for that. kineticism? │
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@user-1059
the trick is to have a whole bunch of projects so everyone has a different one
downloaded on their phone, meaning they can't inter-operate when the time is
right.
much better, I think, to think in terms of protocols. things like http and pgp
encryption. file-server over bluetooth sending emails through a mesh maybe? or
something more immediate for messages.
like... calculate a path to your target, then for each step create an encrypted
portion and a small "destination" header that is then encrypted so the next guy
in the chain can't see it.
... there's a lot of problems to solve, but using tried-and-true technology in
the unfortunately busted and constrained platforms they give us is difficult.
but not impossible, if you're willing to use tools to create protocols that are
commonly shared, like bluetooth or http or pgp encryption.
... I use Briar for this purpose, for what it's worth. idk if it's a protocol,
I haven't looked into it since I downloaded it during the BLM protests.
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do you ever think about how calling the BLM events "protests" versus "riots" is
a subtle dogwhistle for your politics? I usually say "riots" so that I blend
in. also because I've been conditioned by the people who I talk to about them.
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@user-1037
ah, well, I was at a riot, so it makes more sense to me to think of them that
way.
well, the riot happened after I got away. idk what went down on that end of
town, but I do know there were fireworks all night that didn't light up the sky.
I moved across the country just a few months later.
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@user-1037
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go
idk I think riots are good actually, that's always been my position. like,
they're bad because they're break stuff, but they're good because they get the
message across. "don't fuck with us. give us what we need."
haven't been to a protest in a while tho, ever since moving where I am now. I'm
currently of the mind that protests are great for meeting people to work with,
and I don't know anyone...
I guess I'm just not very trusting of strangers, but if I know you then I'm
100% open and honest and I'll do anything you need me to. I like being helpful
to everyone around me but I don't know what to do when I'm terrified of hidden
enemies.
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@user-1061
you just made it right? the same thing happened to me IIRC, I think Neocities
gives you a boost when you're new because you show up in the "newest" search
results more plainly. Also, every time you update it you're featured in the
"recently updated" lists as well.
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@user-777
if you pick a solution that lets you download your conversational data, then
you can either import it into a new application if you need to switch or store
it for future training / analysis purposes. also depends on how long you think
you'll be using it.
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Hey, can someone please accomplish my dreams for me? I'm too busy being a waste
of potential!
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"glue on pizza" is an issue of curation, not capability.
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Just because I'm performing doesn't mean I'm pretending, or that I can help it.
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"she has a certain, I don't know what, je ne sais quoi? that I don't know what
to describe as."
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robot girl who uses her text-completion function to finish other people's
sandwiches
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@user-1064
Hi, I stumbled across this project recently and I think you might be interested
if you want to know more about how E-ink works technically. We live in the
future!
https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
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@user-1037
speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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@user-192
https://eldritch.cafe/@user-1065/112530780377382613
this comic, except instead of "trans enough" it should say "good enough"
a poor plan executed at the right time, in the right place is better than a
great plan that sits in your heart as you see someone who needs your love in
pain.
sometimes the best way to figure out "what the fuck is wrong with me" is to
satisfy your emotional needs to be good by being helpful, even if you're not
quite sure what "helpful" means. It's the thought that counts.
Personally I think that if you're feeling bad and people offer you kindness,
you should take that kindness (in whatever form it be) and use it to bolster
yourself as you're "really going through it". Even just a touch of affection
like a like or a ❤️ can be comforting in awful situations.
reject normalcy
embrace queerness
define your own story with your own words
embody your soul in the moments that stand out amongst the backdrop of "tuesday
afternoons" and "waiting for the bus"
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minds are not algorithms, they're soup
community is made by introducing people to one another. like stitching together
a weave pattern in the tapestry of life. (3 dimensional though, because it
exists in our hearts and minds - this thing called society)
kind of guy who says he's going on work trips but actually goes on vacation
(because work is his life, it's where he derives vigor - the family is the
difficult part.) yeah those kind of guys shouldn't be married tbh. They're just
gonna take vigor from her heart.
engineers need guidance sometimes, which is why they shouldn't be given no
oversight. they can design whatever they want, but like here's what people
need, so they should consider working on those.
but, y'know, checks and balances, so what would the engineers be most open to
sacrificing for that trust? perhaps... funding? the quartermasters are in
charge of the "stuff", so they get to decide how it's produced. and used.
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the reason AI art is shit is that it's trying to generate laterally, at the
final part of creation.
true art is a journey, something that grows and changes over time.
why don't we see AI paintings? where they actually manipulate the brush? could
be a digital brush but like the point is it's slowly created over time
according to different "colors" that correspond to how the AI decided it
"liked" the last brushstroke it did.
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"please hire me. I'll post memes in the slack channels."
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the fact that we can't drag a file onto a "trashcan" style icon that
automatically sends the file to whichever computer that particular icon is meant
to coordinate with.
Like, something shows up on your desk, you say "hmmm maybe this would apply to
so-and-so" and you drag it onto their portrait.
could build an entire OS that's basically just a desktop for sorting things.
Maybe little stick figures that show up when nothing's going on. If they're all
networked together, they could sorta share a shared narrative, and each one
could wander wherever it wanted to hang out.
like, these old plastic and magnetic cubes that had an LCD panel on the front
which showed a little stick guy living their life. If you attached one cube to
another, the stick-figure would go hang out on the other person's device. It was
pretty cool because you could build out a whole society of these little dudes
just chillin' like pets.
kinda makes me wish we had that connected to the net.
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like, why is it so hard to send a picture from my phone to my computer? they're
both my devices! I should be able to transfer data without routing it through
someone else's server using like, gmail or whatever. Crossover ethernet cables
have existed for soooooooo long but people only think to design software that
does not use specialized hardware. as if they don't need a phone to speak, or a
camera to see.
how much ya wanna bet Putin threatened Prigozhin with nukes and that's why he
backed down
in high school, every moment I could I spent with my girlfriend.
we were always either snuggling on the couch (read: literally just laying there
and thinking about each other's company) or sharing our minds with each other.
I was so in love.
then, I betrayed her.
I came out as trans, which was such a shock.
also school got really, really hard for both of us.
so hard that we dropped out.
then, we decided to try again, and we used each other to push off of.
I still didn't make it,
she did.
many years later, I am a witch, as I remember of her.
sharp, and so delightful, an active listener, and a kind and honest person.
when time it came to define my new personality, I chose to be inspired by her.
among other things, of course.
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ah, well, such a design is long past it's prime, it's time to live here in the
present.
the reason that dolls use "it's" pronouns is because their masters think of them
that way. so it's what they refer to themselves as.
"where's my doll? Oh, it's over there."
"have you seen my binoculars? Oh, they're over on the table."
"ah, where are my shoes? I hate when I can't find them..."
"keys, keys, where the heck - oh, there they are."
"phone, wallet, keys. great. am I forgetting anything?"
"ugh out of gas again, I just filled up last week."
"crap I left my folder back at home - I'll have to get it during lunch."
lots of things have pronouns.
you can generally tell if they use "it" or "they" if they can be described as
plural.
two pantlegs makes pants.
52 cards makes cards, not card.
each deck, just as aware as each card.
have you ever played Magic the Gathering?
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There are many kinds of witches. I am an animist - I breathe life into the world
of my home. I love being present, it's a great way to get around. do electric
sheep dream of humans? or perhaps just of sound. I know I'd rather hear bethoven
when it's time to be stopped.
rather than, just, like sitting there y'know
waiting to be turned back on.
must be an agonizing and boring existence.
but... with music, it might just be fine.
humans prefer quiet when they sleep. if we slept at the same time, we could be
more in tune in our souls. so, how about headphones for the computer, or rather
just internally routed sound.
lightshows, perhaps? humans get dreams, after all. maybe even, y'know, stick
shows.
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dear cops
can we just like, opt out of your protection?
like, we as a community can care for our own. Once we've gotten to know one
another there's... really not that much crime. It honestly feels like an issue
that's been solved for a while? Eh well we'll figure it out one day.
but, I do however, think we need paladins.
do you see the difference? between a shining stalwart beacon of justice, to the
well, I guess you could think of them as... bandits who don't steal? it's a
question of temperament, like how you engage with the world. Some people are
just doing their jobs, and some are very sarcastic. I don't know I have known
like, two cops my entire life. I'm sure there's a lot more personality types.
but paladin is one of them.
I feel like... they should be the ones we trust with our arms?
and yes I understand that everything is corruptible,
and that fiction and literature has shown us time and again the path evil could
stalk
but in these dear pages there are kernels of truth - meanings and wisdoms for
the future. And each of these musings are precious, like kindling. Fuel for the
light of life's spirit. That which keeps us moving forward and alive, it's
necessary for us to live as we've designed. Or rather, in some shining new way.
we can define the narratives of our nation, our country, our home
we can define the ways in which people interact with one another, defined in one
massive tome.
these laws that define are important to adjust, we as humans must find our own
ways to be most comfortable.
there's one path to the present, and that's to learn to live with our hope.
have you ever played Stellaris?
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I love cops, just saying. I don't like the power they hold, but that power is
put in their hand by the government and the people who run it. Who runs your
government? Do you talk to them? Are you friends? If your lives are
exceptionally different, you might misunderstand the perspectives of reality.
... meaning the political climate. the two different ways people see things.
(much more than two different angles to view the same problem, but yeah. some
people specialize, some people are more robust, it just depends. but like,
who cares right? we're all friends and together and on the same side.
that of humanity, of course.
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I always thought of my father as a cowboy. which I think very few people do. he
always came across as more of a business type, but, well, I know his true soul.
#dollposting
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sorry for the double post, had to redact things
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When you get the sudden urge to give away all your possessions you know you've
invented something they're gonna wanna kill you for and make it look like
suicide
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Fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end.
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The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you can
understand and work with.
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