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I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
each one single atom wide
in a sense... the origin
god
the number 42
it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
unknown]
like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
and everything that's not us is out in space.
up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks and
dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
... no, flat discs
I think they're spirals
you're both right
right
...
anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
paths we call time?
[ so ]
um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
![straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]](../media/7e64c5c23b6e6f8d.png "straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things. and, what lies beyond... okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything. what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing? probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime. [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]")
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what if a very slow LLM continuously generated text and was in a back-and-forth
with it's user who guided it through the training process as it set weights as
it chose
basically, let the computer decide how it wants to be like
could even filter it through multiple levels, like, top one is highly
intelligent, bottom ones are quick and only producing the vaguest output - but
the higher up you go in the tier, the more "up the tree node graph map" you'd
be, and the more you could have summarized for you, and passed up a layer.
observing multiple places at once, incorporating them bit-by-bit into their
digital "me".
like, have an LLM or machine learning whatever track a user as they use social
media.
could do it like a game, where you track the movement of the mouse and eyes
or more like a statistical model, where you
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where you measure the quantity of each UI element's uses, and the general
context associated with that use. tracking data with data...
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the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire and
vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each tentacle
as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry at best,
ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out from your
shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see you as you
approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
sport
there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning and
the crude.
crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
each attendant
... Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy
thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
lesson to teach
[it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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║ now that we fight wars without peering into the eyes of our foes, our │
║ observation equipment has the opportunity to lie to us. │
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║ like, what if we just deepfaked ukrainian soldiers onto the targeting computers │
║ of russian drones │
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║ we could fight wars, observe the effect of our machinery, and burn metal, │
║ plastic, and silicon (because apparently that's the best use for these things │
║ ???) without harming a living soul │
║ │
║ seriously, stop with the gazas │
║ │
║ stop with war for the sake of testing equipment that is only designed for war │
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║ it is no longer a necessity, now that we have more than enough to share. │
║ │
║ and that truly is the bane wielded by socialism - if everyone just... gave away │
║ anything they had, suddenly there's no more reason to fight. And if everyone │
║ stopped fighting, they're out of a job. │
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║ can we just like... cancel all jobs, and then add them back in piece-by-piece? │
║ "yes you're essential, doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers, food │
║ delivery trucks, electricity grid mainta │
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Mastodon feels so personal but, like, nobody's gonna invite you to a new
instance. You gotta go where you think you'll fit in.
change your name! get a new profile pic! make 10 accounts! who cares! nobody
cares, and that's a good thing! It means you can be whoever you want! wherever
you want! in whatever place you want! Do you have a catgirl persona? great! go
mewl with the catgirls and wink at the catboys. Do you have an artistic side?
great! Mastodon is your new gallery. Do you like politics? there's places out
there for you! Where you don't even need to CW your posts! (But you probably
should so that external people can boost you) Do you want a 500 person large
dating pool for people in an area who want to chill out and have sex? Great
there's a place for you! No place? MAKE THE PLACE! Be your own administrator!
Carve your mark in the world and say "this is who and how I wanted to be in
this 21st century!" History demands it! History demands that we rellish their
sacrifices! Celebrate, for their sake!
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