Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: messages/367 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Stars are just as natural as plants. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/368 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── "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]? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/369 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/370 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── a job application is an earnest attempt to say "Hello. I want to do what you do. Teach me your ways." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/371 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/372 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/373 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── that moment when you swear you see your messages changing under your fingertips, long after you've written them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ |