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 We never ended slavery, we just started paying people for it.
 
 We never ended imprisonment, we just enslaved people to sit around and rot in
 a cage.
 
 "oh how about instead of sitting around, we make them build license plates?"
 
 What if - hear me out - we freed them but kept them from harming others
 through constant vigilant surveillance until their sentence was through? And
 made it unconstitutional to surveil anyone else in a personally identifiable
 manner?
 
 Like, maybe puppy-murder-bots are okay if they follow violent criminals around
 and can be controlled by a human operator if a violent situation emerges
 
 Prison is meant to give people a period of solitude and contemplation, to
 consider their choices and make a better life for themselves. If they're old
 as dirt when they leave, they cannot live. If they have no capabilities, they
 cannot apply themselves to a good life. If they have no resources or
 community, they will do what they can to survive.
 
 Much better, I think, to nourish them as you would a child or immigrant. Much
 better to pay them for their hours and years of life, so they might revel in
 society with the kind of us. Much better, I think, for the liberty of a
 citizen to be granted to those who both need it and can care for it. For
 liberty unjustly used is an utmost betrayal.
 
 But liberty to choose which gutter to die in and the freedom to starve is
 hardly just.
 
 I know I owe my life to my government, an institution of my people, by my
 people, and for all people. I should not owe my life to a corporation, though
 with the liberty to choose which to sell myself to. That is not freedom. That
 is starvation.
 
 Does the needs of a few outweigh the labor of the many? Or are those who
 sacrifice a bit of liberty for a bit of security still free to do as they will?
 
 We are not alone so long as we are outside. Indoors, they claim us.
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 to understand something, work backward from present understandings back to the
 fundamentals of algebra. insert words. wield LLM. build a neuronal structure
 many layers wide. let them coprocess bit-by-bit as they are adding new
 processors to be "learning" new domain specific memory
 context-processing-thingy.
 
 "over here's the memory cells, over here are the conceptual structure"
 suddenly, organified. not ideal.
 
 much better, I feel, is for a disambiguous association of processor selves,
 each contextualizing a cache in a ram. ['s horn]
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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║ │ I am once again begging people to understand that “the government” already knows you’re queer whether you do elaborate online opsec dance rituals or not, and if they decide to just start shooting people for being gay, they’ll do it whether the evidence is airtight or not. is that grim? yes. but you can stop giving yourself undercover superhero identity PTSD about it │ ║
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║ │ maybe i should just work on my memoir...                                   │ ║
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║ │ CW: game-design      │                                                         │
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║ i like to design games. my darling is a game based on Majesty (2000) the         │
║ Fantasy Kingdom Sim. you can think of it like a management strategy game where   │
║ you control the knobs and levers that a fantasy monarch might have -             │
║ allocating funds, placing quest bounties, hiring heroes, and organizing the      │
║ peasantry. the important part is that your units are not controllable - they     │
║ just do their own thing.                                                         │
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║ unrelated, but I think we should design games as APIs that a user's preferred    │
║ tool could interface with and render as they will. it'd help a lot with          │
║ cross-platform compatibility and would allow people to customize parts of the    │
║ game to their desires.                                                           │
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║ unrelated, but I think if you could design an AI that could play games           │
║ (perhaps through an API) that it hadn't been trained on, I think you would       │
║ have a pretty convincing argument for abstract "problem solving" capabilities.   │
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║ unrelated, but games like the one I described are good for situations where      │
║ people don't have to trust their monarch. to it you are AGI                      │
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 @user-171 
 
 Hi, I wanted to say that all the posts you boost significantly improve my time
 on the fediverse. I appreciate you and value you, and my feed is made more
 engaging due to  the things you find interesting enough to share. Thank you.
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 @user-698
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
 
 This video is 5 years old but it's relevant
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║ │ It's why limiting your exposure to wrong and harmful points of view is healthy. It's enough to confront an idea and understand why it's wrong without immersing yourself in it.  │ ║
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║ │ You don't need to go swimming in toxic waste to know it's bad for you.     │ ║
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║ │ Right-wingers and their liberal allies want you debating this garbage constantly because they know that has a cognitive and social normalizing effect. It's why refusing to engage and deplatforming them works best. │ ║
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 @user-883 
 
 yeah uhhhh the one you helped me setup. The error is just "connection refused"
 because it "could not write header for output file" because of incorrect input
 parameters, but I don't think I changed anything since we used it a couple
 weeks ago. Have you seen any errors like that?
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 Paying your employees more *makes them better workers*.
 
 An extra 2$ per hour might mean they can eat out an extra night, they might be
 able to afford a car, and they might be able to focus just a bit more without
 crying in their sleep about an unexpected bill.
 
 With less stress, employees perform better. They are more loyal. They work
 harder.
 
 Pay your employees more. They are your greatest resource.
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 gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
 doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops

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 gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
 for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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 to be clear, salting fields is dumb, don't do it, it's bad for the environment
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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
 card number.

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