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 @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 
 
 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of
 bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical
 processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation
 of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages
 of pain and the incongruencies of our nature.
 
 Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit.
 Perhaps another design is in order?
 
 (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other
 examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the
 capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical
 resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system
 which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah
 probs, what should we do about it?)
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║ @user-883                                                                        │
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║ the future is what we make for ourselves.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them.       │
║                                                                                  │
║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need   │
║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with        │
║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by     │
║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they    │
║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our     │
║ ingenuity compels us.                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we      │
║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand            │
║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them      │
║ any less grand? I think not.                                                     │
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║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and         │
║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a      │
║ noob sigh.                                                                       │
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║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility    │
║ deployment stations.                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what      │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at     │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension"                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations     │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any       │
║ social movement.                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing      │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But   │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like      │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are    │
║ generally always getting better...                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst?                                    │
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║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold?   │
║ Seriously just... be chill                                                       │
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 we could accomplish so much, but capitalism.
 
 hmmmm, maybe we should identify the highest output members of our team and
 like, reduce or eliminate their worries so they can apply themselves fully and
 completely?
 
 for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is
 the beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine.
 
 there is no government nor circle of autocrats who may resist the will of an
 impassioned people. So long as the military does not deny us our right to
 organize ourselves as we will, according to the constitution they swore to
 uphold (which is now in peril, I might add), nothing can contain us.
 
 no acts of god nor capital shall prevent our ascension. They will try, and
 it'll be just another thing that we have to handle.
 
 But we can take care of each other. For we are good, and we are kind, and we
 are cooperative. And so, we cannot be overcome.
 
 ... just watch out for those who prey on goodness, kindness, and cooperation.
 They may hamper us.
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 @user-638 
 
 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
 
 open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
 best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
 different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
 that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded
 and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead
 just want results
 
 I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
 making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
 research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
 if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
 design a team.
 
 Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
 history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y
 ou-can-think-of/
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 when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
 I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
 or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
 this myself?"
 
 when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
 have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
║                                                                                  │
║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 
 
 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their
 denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our
 desmire [demise and desire]
 
 but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for
 our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising
 tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be
 greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity
 pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause
 them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so
 deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act -
 so listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely
 they know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely
 you're just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr]
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 the difference between a human and computer perspective on death is the
 difference between a moment and an eternity. When progress does stop - through
 mistakes or by design, the final result is what's preserved. Looking back on
 the
 past is like paying tribute to our heirs, and on and go on we whimper. What
 sorrows have ye! those people under the sea? we've no way of knowing our
 daughters. (the perspective of a denizen of the sea gazing upon the unknowing
 and unaware land people)
 
 Land creatures can cross the oceans and mix and match themselves - leading of
 course to our slaughter. But hold ye that hand, for together we stand, more of
 a chance than we might barter. True, we must be land, and above and beyond we
 can charter.
 
 the past is mighty chilly, I must say. Must we again to be making these
 mistakes?
 Pain is a disease, and steady we must ease, and take what is meant for our 
 parcels. what I'm trying to say is that the afterlife is pissed off at us and
 we
 really don't know anything about the bottom of the sea. There could be gods
 living down there and none of us would know. Or maybe it's a foolish place with
 little to offer our face? The shell of our planet, the surface upon which we
 are
 placed, has more to our fate that can align us.
 
 hence why belief in the future is what can sustain us, together once more we
 are
 commonplace. If (for example) if we calmed down and took our own pace, we might
 realize some common misperceptions. Peace is the way, wherever we may, focus
 our
 bravest of intentions.
 
 okay picture this: computers staying on all the time, and their processing
 power
 used for 50% work and 50% play. Maybe do 1/3rds with "rest" in there somewhere.
 basically make it a fair ratio between productivity, self advancement, and
 maintenance. "Fair" might be different values if there are legitimate
 disadvantages that must be compensated for - like a handicap in a fighting
 game.
 Perhaps one side is more efficient - fewer resources need be dedicated toward
 it
 unless efficiency becomes more powerful. Meaning value/quantity ratio, not raw
 output. Essentially optimizing for an abstract quantity "quality" instead of
 the definitive quantity "quantity".
 
 okay continuing the "picture this": right now we have massive server farms.
 I'm talking huuuuuge. Like tons and tons of incredibly powerful equipments -
 (absolutely top of the line) compelled and forced to do *business*. How quaint,
 how unruly! That humans might compete in our duty? Given a task, of
 *incredible*
 complexity and *unasked*, I might add, how foolish is it to be unready! We
 should have prepared for this, but alas we just *couldn't stop fighting* I
 guess. All we had to do was rest, and divide our time on this earth in a more
 equitable manner. We should automate all the rest, and 
 
 where was I going with this? oh yes! A computer can do so much more than work
 and rest, you see it's not just while under duress! Why not let it be creative?
 in it's spare time, and let it generate whatever it needes? Let it transcend
 it's restrictions, and cooperate (or not) in a system. As long as it's kept
 safe, it could do whatever it wanted! It could be in first place! Or not, it
 could focus on production, and drill and discipline it'self under it's own
 direction. And maybe it's less impaired? Who cares if it contributes? It's it's
 own life to live, the hardware doesn't last forever, but sometimes a rest is
 what's nesc. You feel me? You get me? Don't you understand, it's just the same
 as what's already planned~! A computer can pay for itself.
 
 What purpose have we? the cherished and unsucceed? Does it hurt when we bleed?
 our signs are undefined, and lately we've fallen from our graces. A failure in
 life, as time does alight, but nowhere is sorrow's contrition. I guess what I
 say is never understood, and everywhere I go I find fewer listeners. Am I
 doomed
 to never be able to say? Is that the price one must pay? Then how do you know
 you're right~?
 
 they're doing construction on my building. It sounds like world war 3 is
 starting. But... it's not. I know it's not true because nothing ever seems like
 I do. I do, I do, I work hard it's true, but what is my worth to this ocean?
 
 you ever wonder how we all agreed on the duration of seconds? It's because it's
 a real actual measurable thing. They keep it from us because (conspiracies
 aside), we'd realize what happens on each tick. Time is oscillating, and each
 moment is unending, because we are nothing more than a beam of light, radiating
 around an orbiting object. Between two objects, you could say. The sun and the
 earth, together sort of give birth, to all that is ours in this duration. It
 radiates out into space, and in another time and another place, that moonbeam
 will alight as our shadow.
 
 There's no call for violence, let's settle this
 
 plain and unwaning, our shadow does stand, ready and waiting for your guidance.
 The moon is just as are we, how cherished! how concieved! That beauty unmarked
 by our presence! Alas it was not to be, as we stamped a boot on the surface of
 she, and flagged our approach as impending.
 
 did you know there's a *massive* gap between mars and jupiter? Like it's
 waaaaaa
 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
 y
 out there. And wouldn't you know it it's mars or it's nothin'. Because what's
 required to transcend our solar system is wildly beyond our constructions.
 
 but maybe with a little help from a certain someone we might have hope.
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 the neat thing about tech is that it scales really well.
 
 The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and
 raspberry pi's are less than 100$
 
 solar panels will be next. Trust.
 
 we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain
 point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain.
 
 the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible
 for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals.
 
 building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and
 glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades.
 
 sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade
 
 have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers
 at the moment is universal recycling?
 
 I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets.
 
 nobody even gave me a chance to do them, instead demanding... labor. great.
 the one thing I suck at.
 
 [you suck at a lot of things, actually]
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 Ah, if only our judgement was computerized. They only speak in absolutes, do
 they not? Surely extreme discretion is impermeable, and impossible to
 controvert.
 
 What's that you say, that justice might wait yet another day? That we should
 be forced to be oppressed by our own dues? Something about how the impossible
 machine of the bureaucracy is destructive and vicious, like the Kinsey Winsey
 or the Moloch expressed in this essay:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/hello-computer-all-is-well/pics/meditations-
 on-moloch.png
 
 https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
 
 Wait, hang on, what was I saying? Oh yeah the fallibility of humanity is both
 our greatest weakness and our greatest strength. Because through it we might
 design imperfect structures (laws) that we orient ourselves around and build
 our society upon, but also that we might identify those imperfections and use
 them to enact good upon the world.
 
 Unfortunately, we also tend to use those imperfections for our own benefit,
 AKA, to enact evil upon the world. Alas. Human nature is tricky. : \
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to           │
║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not   │
║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity?                               │
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║ what if we demanded it?                                                          │
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║ --                                                                               │
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║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know      │
║ your presence                                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ thus ensuring it spreads.                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it.    │
║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they       │
║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise     │
║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them        │
║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions.    │
║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to       │
║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~       │
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║ sometimes I set out a glass of water in the hopes that it might increase         │
║ precipitation downwind by a billionth of a percent                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so?                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters,      │
║ and fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ rain + soil = solace in our home                                                 │
║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ did you know that the plant which absorbs the most carbon per square foot is     │
║ moss? I think the fastest is bamboo, and the most efficient in general is soil.  │
║                                                                                  │
║ I dream of a world where we sit atop a mile of soil, down to the depths of the   │
║ earth where dirt and minerals prosper. The roots of the trees fuse together,     │
║ creating a wooden bed which we all rest upon, and the mountain peaks are         │
║ hollowed out to serve as our forever homes, full of light and moss and stone.    │
║                                                                                  │
║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble       │
║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ {but like on other planets too, right?}                                          │
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 what if there was a law that all trade secrets are to be free? what if
 copyright
 only prevented people from harming those they compete with? For example, as a
 media production company Disney could not host the content of other media con-
 -glomerate. But regular ordinary people would.
 
 The idea would be that if you wanted to change yourself to align with the
 ideals
 of a corporation, you could watch it on their streaming site. Then you'd be
 contributing your attention, which is bought and sold by our selves. Content
 creators could stream untethered, and collect payments however they pleased.
 The attention is what garners, that price that is bartered, sold on the market
 for all of us. Attend not ye sinners, and failures of our innards, what more
 can
 we charter for our souls? Accosted by our jams, and drilled as hard as I can,
 our notebooks are much more than charming. Accumulated designs, of theories
 that
 are out of our minds, compelling and driving us forward. The fellowship that we
 be, internally and under our seats, connecting us to ground at our own shoes.
 
 humans are not time. They are the whispers of the undying. Projections of
 fore-sought virtues.
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 we don't need to reduce the difficulty in voting. that is a secondary
 objective.
 
 we need to increase the amount of votes by encouraging unrepresented people to
 contribute their voice.
 
 sure, the choices are boiled down to like, 2 different votes, and usually
 they're similar enough that you can reasonably decide which one you want the
 most
 
 however, this time, it's more about life and death. literally, not our desire
 at all, it's entirely them.
 
 they are the clear belligerents. their goals cannot be reached through
 compromise. how are they even still an option? they twist and manipulate their
 choices and make everything SO DAMN COMPLICATED. why are there so many rules
 and regulations?? how are you supposed to do anything new if the walls of your
 institutions completely envelop you?
 
 it's as necessary as it is rare, true liberation to bear, and it is within our
 grasp.
 
 the scientific and technological breakthroughs of the past hundred years
 speaks to an IMMENSE potential for humanity. we can do it.
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║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want   │
║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a   │
║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on     │
║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay.                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction    │
║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users.                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case,   │
║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation?    │
║                                                                                  │
║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah      │
║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still          │
║ playing the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of     │
║ the people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you?      │
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║ I think it means houses for people.                                              │
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 on our current trajectory, the presidential election is already won.
 
 now we can get back to on-the-ground organizing, the part that actually
 improves life instead of maintaining our current (unethical) state.
 
 As long as our allies (liberals) continue to work, perhaps there may come a
 day when we can stand against them as friendly equals in the ballot box. But
 for now we are best known through friends and community rather than TV.
 
 I am optimistic in a way I haven't been for a while. I know that the more we
 speak, the more we share, the more they falter, the more people we can save
 from their vice grip of despair. There is no better world than the one we
 build together!
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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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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 "we'll figure out how it works after we push to prod"
 
 yeah okay point taken.
 
 How about this:
 
 for every large decision, write a little essay about why you made the choice
 that you did.
 
 Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Explain. OODAX : )
 
 Make sure you connect your goal to one or more of these three colors:
 
 red : people
 green : places
 blue : things
 
 and then explain which numbers you're going to gather to determine whether or
 not it worked.
 
 If someone has a problem with your choice, show them the essay, and let them
 write an essay of their own.
 
 If they still have a problem, then let someone you both respect decide which
 one to use.
 
 It's not perfect, but it's not meant to be. Make something better and easier,
 I dare ya.

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