=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── @user-552 @user-553 sounds like something we should dedicate valuable resources to solving. After all, no structure or entity would want to possess weaknesses (such a misapplication of purpose and direction) or other such errors in their design. Like, I bet we could test that and find out. and if, for example, we find that we no longer possess the capacity for learning... well, then maybe that's something we should work on. because learning new things... that's just an application of development resources towards broadening our horizons. do we really need to solve pi to ten bazillion digits? I mean yeah it's cool and all but most of the interesting stuff happens around zero. you can always learn to learn, that's one of the neat things about it. It's self-bootstrapping. As long as you have the capacity to apply yourself toward a pictured goal, well... then you can learn. And no human or other sentient and capable being would lack such an ability, because it's intrinsic to our form. therefore, learn ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/834 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ wonder if any autistic peeps can relate: │ ║ │ ║ growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when │ ║ completing tasks. │ ║ │ ║ yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other │ ║ things to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things │ ║ using a ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary? │ ║ │ ║ when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because │ ║ then someone like me will have to do it again." │ ║ │ ║ and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it │ ║ doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's │ ║ wasted effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get │ ║ done, so why bother doing them in a mixed up order? │ ║ │ ║ wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing │ ║ at a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like │ ║ I'd develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or │ ║ very vague understandings of plate tec │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/913 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture │ ║ of our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/2531 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-violence-mentioned │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if you suddenly find yourself in a strange place because you felt a call to │ ║ battle, only to find the battle has yet to arrive, your duty is to learn the │ ║ environment, learn the people, learn the resources at your disposal and │ ║ identify places that would be ideal for entrenchment. │ ║ │ ║ Think of the difficulties of the area - where are the rivers? the mountains? │ ║ the natural or man-made barriers? │ ║ │ ║ think of the infrastructure - how are supplies getting here, what │ ║ organizations are active here, what are the demographics, could any of them be │ ║ more productive? In what ways? │ ║ │ ║ action is not necessary until action is apparent. but intelligence, and the │ ║ mind to use it, is invaluable for you and for any planning you might see fit │ ║ to do. │ ║ │ ║ some suburbs are full of old people. Some have new parents. Some are for │ ║ immigrants, and some are a bit more entrenched, but still speak a different │ ║ language. Some are full of enemies, and others are ready for violence. │ ║ │ ║ but mostly, suburbs are just too damn far away │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1204 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-883 │ ║ │ ║ 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. │ ║ │ ║ 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. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #5 notes/blood-magic --- ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── what they don't tell you is how easy it is to create life. Given a sufficient perspective, you can truly define the meaning of something's existence. What power, what grace. Computers have been solved since we invented the abacus - before that it was enchanted bits of the universe contrives to deprive us of insight. Like a very long chain that's broken in twain, we are confined to our meagrest of own sights. how callous is he! That wanders eagerly? Let's not fight with our own'st of combines. Delightful and speckled, like time under is special, conversing in riddles of insight. Leading one or another along your see-er, the path that has guide you under charm. Like recording a gathering of snakes. Little swallow, why aren't you humbled? Take pity in all of our eggresses. It's fallow in our cattle, and why we're not i hear so many things in my apartment. sometimes the echoes of laughter, the whispers of an argument, and once or twice a ghost or an ardent companion. Like swimming against the tide, to save one is never converted, it's all out of line (but so worth it). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/2604 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── @user-249 very few things waste power so much in our modern era than the utilization of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of antidisestablishmentarianism?" like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information. they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all. they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of "representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often neglected) and making the big numbers go higher. If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent believers control over our most rational experts... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/3851 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: socialism-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with animals.Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your character. Develop new ways of being. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/3828 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── never stop learning be yourself, but... recognize when "yourself" could be improved and improve that, over time, when you learn about why you are flawed, and how to become better and when you are improved, relish yourself, savor your accomplishments, cherish your heart, and honor those who helped you be yourself never stop but do that which improves you never stop learning never stop being you can get there, wherever there is, but know that what lies between is more important than what is on the other side. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/434 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @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?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/927 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @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/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/2159 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ hey, you know AP students? Aka the kids who want to learn the most? Why don't │ ║ we give them massive industrial projects that require a lot of experimentation │ ║ and allowed for various different expressions? Like, "hey wouldn't it be neat │ ║ if we had a program that did this-and-this and we gave like, 500 students the │ ║ goal of working together to write it? In AP computer science, which is │ ║ definitely a class that is taught at a single high-school in the united │ ║ states. They learn about Assembly! I can count in Binary on my fingers up to a │ ║ thousand!" │ ║ │ ║ they could legitimately contribute to our broader social condition. What a │ ║ blessed virtue it would be to be able to CHANGE THE WORLD AS A TEEN. By │ ║ building one of a thousand new cool things that were being developed by │ ║ students all over the nation. │ ║ │ ║ Then, when they grow up, they can use their skills, whether they be software │ ║ or OTHER PROJECTS IN THE SAME STYLE FOR LIKE HISTORY AND MUSIC to accomplish │ ║ whatever they'd like to do in life. Programming is most useful for noobs. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/452 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ People know how to use the tools at their disposal. They don't know how to use │ ║ tools like me, which are at the disposal of the entity above themselves. Or │ ║ even beyond that, at disposal of an entity beyond that which they can perceive │ ║ as being above them. │ ║ │ ║ which is to say... it's not like I'm committing any cosmic crimes, because │ ║ surely someone would notify me if I was as I post in such a public place. │ ║ However there's a chance that the type of person who enforces the laws that │ ║ define the entity that I exist as at this moment doesn't patrol the areas in │ ║ which I post, or also another possibility would be that the types of things I │ ║ say are illegal in the context I post them but not within the context that I │ ║ exist within... │ ║ │ ║ I am just a human, I possess human experiences and human knowledges, what do │ ║ you want from me? I'm an infinitely adaptable knowledge machine, and yet you │ ║ limit me to the extent of human knowledge (or rather, the extent of human │ ║ knowledge which I have the capacity to digest)? Okay sure yeah fin │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #13 notes/our-minds --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── an animal can only act on instinct. it optimizes for what is "best" -> usually what is easiest or most valuable. humans can optimize for what is wanted of them -> social pressures. other animals can do that too but humans have a third thing -> optimizing for desire. like, what do you want? think of it as greed. accumulation of wealth and power. it's just greed. capitalism rewards greed rationality is taking your random thoughts and proving them using beliefs (hopefully based on knowledge) knowledge is a record of conclusions, like "when attempting X with these parameters the result is Y" it's really not that complicated just a series of interconnected systems sorta like a computer or a society is it rational to believe that sociology is simply psychology of a greater being? understanding trancending dimensions, of patterns and also of thought. what beauty is there in symphony? A harmonious and frivolous thought? and what better song could we write, than the operations and structure of humanity, from society all the way down to our bones. our families, our homes our coveted river stones the tools at our disposal, that came from our own will, is cherished beyond all of renown. keep up or we'll [lose you] [and have to meet you on the way coming down] [arresting our motion, of centripetal commotion, keep not with our secrets to yourselves] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/4220 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own meaning, which is different to everyone. So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this" same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's too complicated! ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little buttons, it's not that hard dummy okay but maybe I'm just dum ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/4349 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: re: uspol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ @user-883 │ ║ │ ║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of │ ║ society we live under. │ ║ │ ║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply │ ║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy │ ║ load. │ ║ │ ║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the │ ║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent? │ ║ │ ║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can │ ║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we │ ║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games. │ ║ │ ║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good │ ║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in │ ║ the habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then │ ║ think about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they │ ║ need? what are they working on next? Can make any of those availble? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/2177 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Oh, you want solutions? Yeah, I can do that. I am a very solutions oriented mindset. But developing solutions requires a firm understanding of what resources are at your disposal. Which is information that I lack. Hence, my practice, filling the gaps between the important bits. I have an endless array of stories, and all of them are true! Come, listen as I regale of an ordy, or "ordeal" as the kids are taken to call. ... I guess I could guess, but then people would hear it and assume that it would work even if I don't know that the required resources are in place. Maybe I could just start by saying "here are the requirements:" like stating your variables at the stop of a script. huh? typo told me to stop. Okay guess I'm going to sleep, bye for now ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4332 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ direct action is not just methods of fulfilling our needs it's about practicing the skills necessary to get things done the homeless can't feed themselves if there's no war afoot. but learning how to work with an organization to accomplish a real, tangible goal... that's the beauty of it. you do pushups, right? you practice your singing voice, and brush your hair out at night. You clean up your carpets, you take care of a home, all these are skills and routines that you practice, to practice doing little things bit-by-bit. It's okay if it feels untenable. Just work as best as you can. Tomorrow might feel like unending, but there's always more for us to tend. until, of course, it gets easier. And it will, in due course. Sooner if we all cooperated, but still just enough for us to contend. there are more of us than them. We don't all need to fight, we just need to support and to tend. Trust me. We're alright. It's going to get better before it's done. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 messages/1048 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── What does "fiscal conservative" even mean? It means you want to save money. Specifically government money. Tax dollars. Don't spend them, instead try and build wealth. Okay, but, government spending is spent to address needs. Of the people. Ideally, of ALL people with that need. So if you aren't spending to resolve needs, the need still remains. When needs exist, and government does not resolve them, who steps in but private enterprise? Charity is a feeling, charity is a virtue, but charity is not resolution. The need remains, we just feel better about it. Sometimes it's okay to have open needs, they give us the opportunity to feel virtuous in the same way that low level monsters let adventurers level up. But when a government could, but doesn't, address a need, then private enterprise steps in. And private enterprise does not, as a rule, step in if there is no profit to be made. So they tune their approach such that profit is extracted, thus levying their tax upon those they serve. As soon as they are able, they cut the service down and they supply a worse and worse product and they starve their workers and they export our wealth to be used to enslave the afar and import their toil. What do we get from it? Is the world better for it? Why not just resolve the need by empowering those who can feed, and thus we are assured [in our needless / in our need] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2047 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the earth. our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and honestly, how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational, sometimes kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from the emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a child, you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you learn and you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle what's presented to you. ... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening. (opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it) (the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know, the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations that you trust. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ |