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If robots and AI and space colonies and monorails and solarpunk beauty are
part of our future history, wouldn't you rather build a world that you'd like
to live in and automate it toward that vision of beauty,
rather than build the robots that automate our current society, with all it's
flaws and woes?
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honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
most beautiful.
like below the crust.
or space.
the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
that much
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yes, they really would be satisfied with a single lifetime's worth of
technological progress, from the birth of the microchip to now, as long as
they can rule over the ruins of what once were our utopian aspirations.
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what if we solved all the problems and left none for our children and their
children's children?
the world would be a better place.
I think we'd make new problems. I am unconcerned. If the peace started to get
to them, I trust that they'd start fights.
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Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean
style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich
aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should
be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend
should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our
nation.
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the future is the home of marble statues and shimmering chandeliers, replete
with moss and sunlight.
the future is a world where we care for each other, and grow in riotous
profusion in all our myriadic forms.
the future is where we will find ourselves, as soon as we take responsibility
for our own arms.
the future is waiting - the future is calling to thee
it's there for the present, if the present should choose to grasp it.
I, personally, choose a mortal life instead. Find me at home, or find me out
there - either way, if you want me on your side, talk to me fair.
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in 10 years, everything that's killing the planet from energy usage alone will
be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of recyclable solar panels
we could build.
oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
worse, for no reason.
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@user-883
the future is what we make of it. it happens both slower and faster than
imaginable, and it's not evenly distributed.
when I yearn for the future, I find myself drawn to the past - the natural
world around me inspires me in ways that my computer never could. Just as my
computer inspires me in ways that a tree, a brook, a cloud alight might not.
though the future may be terrifying, we're here for it together. And nothing
has changed in our humanity, save for our slight addiction to social media.
frankly I'd take social media over leaded gasoline any day!
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"what if we invested in cities instead of companies"
ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism
"what if we elevated people we respect"
ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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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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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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everyone votes for a better world. every time. that is the promise of voting -
that you might choose how the world gets better.
when people don't think a better world is possible, they don't vote.
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@user-883
If we lived in a sane world, the internet would operate on standards. And
yet... Well, that's not entirely true, we have HTTP and HTML and all the
security risks that Javascripts entails... Well, here's hoping the future can
figure out what exactly's important aside from profit and ease-of-development.
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@user-1198 @user-165
In a truly just society, we might use AI to deliver us from certain types of
menial tasks that have little use.
But we hardly live in a just society, and it's utility value is lost if the
technology is not built on a bedrock of trust.
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I want to live in a world where people die when they're bored instead of old.
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they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
want it to replace it.
like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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║ okay how about this: what if people, living in a democracy, volunteered │
║ themselves to be part of a socio-economic testing group. essentially a │
║ miniature economy and social structure. A standard set of rules and │
║ regulations would facilitate any interactions necessary for trade and civilian │
║ free movement - POSIX for societies. If people want to try out fully automated │
║ luxury space communism then they should totally have the opportunity to do │
║ that. Every mis-step is a path away from that future, but like, "step" as in │
║ like a volatile gray good that's constantly exploding itself onto things. Or │
║ aliens, on an asteroid, waiting for a ship to land on them or a planet to get │
║ in their way. I don't want to be an alien egg sack, so clearly we should be │
║ able to vote in our own words and have chatGPT decide which ballot boxes to │
║ fill for us. And it's not like those ballot boxes have to change every year, │
║ unless people think of new ones to add. Kinda scary tbh. Kinda thrilling too, │
║ to be the future │
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If you want to design a society, first learn how to build a decentralized
scalable multiprocessor computer program.
It could literally flip bits, the point is to practice architecture not
accomplish a goal.
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"just design your cities radially around a bus-stop. boom, transportation
infrastructure solved"
such confidence. such a lack of... geography. what about cities built on the
coast?
"idk, just have a half-circle or something for the part that's under-water.
Leave some gaps for wildlife and such to make it to the water and then build a
biiiiiiiig stone wall between our access point and theirs. Boom, free
regionally personalized safaris for every state with a watering hole."
okay but what about the parts that are already there?
"oh like the buildings and such? well, people can still live in them but to
build anything NEW, you need to obey the demands of the blueprint exactly. So
if your specific build-plot intersected with one or more plots that had
buildings on them that are currently inhabited by their rightful owners who
are there under their own will and not duressed or compelled to leave or stay
in any way?"
... yeah, like the. buildings. Right. so grid-based vs radial (with room
between 4 animals)
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@user-326
almost as if the nature of power is misaligned to the most efficient and most
desirable outcome of humanity (utopia) (EDIT: utopia of endless forms most
beautiful)
what would a more aligned framework look like? Perhaps we should spend some
time thinking about such a design?
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We should dedicate ourselves toward making a life out in space - medium term
goals. In the meantime we should advance as quickly as possible, at a rate
that earth can support. Anyone who would demand more is an outcast in our
eyes, a brutal denial of our future children's defile [meaning of "future life
lived as they will]
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it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the
[moment, but also society - something with culture?]
... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
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If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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if the election goes poorly, keep in mind that eventually everyone will either
fight, or support those who are fighting.
everyone.
if the election upholds the status quo, there is a chance that their wounds
might heal and they may rejoin us in our reasonable society.
keep working for reason. it will pay off in the long run. remember that a
better world is possible, but you can't leave anyone alive behind when
reaching for it.
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what if we put all the nukes in a big pile and launched them into space
(nuclear themed asteroid showers?) njot ideal
plus they could just build more in sectret.
okay, so... we made these things, and they're really hard to get rid of. we've
been able to dissasemble at least one per year, but there's... so many...
they're really far too conceptually simple to build. it's not right. such
destructive power should be wielded with might, not for it.
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if you can't imagine how to do collectivist communes better, just look to
medieval castles, and replace the royalty with seniors, children, and anyone
else you want to venerate.
If you're so tied to modern infrastructure, with all of it's delineation,
separation, isolation, and alienation that you can't imagine anything else,
try thinking of historical examples where humans, real regular humans, the
same kind of human creature apes that still exist to day, did the thing you
want to do, and then think of all the ways that our education and
technological marvels could improve the situation. It's easy (she says, while
describing a hard problem)
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I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get
paid. then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
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there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are
in a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
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the "heaven" they offer you is just a world of your own design, which is what
you can do when you're perfectly disciplined and granted the ability to
perfectly perceive
perception, begets reality and lo! we only see what we want to see
life is so much more interesting than death, death is just... a spiral of your
penitent peers living their lives glued to their screens and passing through
spacetime as if in a dream
life, meanwhile, is anything you can conjure on this tiny planet earth. At
least we have indoor plumbing, right?
I'd rather make friends with the angels in this life, so they can convince me
to stop torturing myself.
someone... please convince me...
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this is the world I want to live in and I'm not even kidding
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"hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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Would you prefer the world went on turning, with or without you?
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if you give me a quintuple digit salary, I could fix all the problems of the
world. One by one... A BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET for solving one problem
forever... until needs chagne of course.
"yeah but it's not about money it's about throughput and demand" some guy in
arkansas probably idk I've never been
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but I like moonmen T.T
what if the ISS was untethered
"send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
that extra oomph!"
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@user-883
Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
joy.
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I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time
to show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern
society as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to
live as they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of
bullshit micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever
time wasting jobs.
modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
without the oppression. Without the coercion.
all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
I personally want communes + love
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@user-883
I agree with you. Collaboration is the path to the bright future. If only they
could see it.
[if only we could make them see]
(cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices
we should make in the future)
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In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you
can use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives
to learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from
scratch, throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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║ @user-883 │
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║ the future is what we make for ourselves. │
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║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them. │
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║ 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. │
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║ 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. │
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║ 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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"what if they bootstrap their generator using human art and then use AI art as
training data to cut out the artist middleman?"
oh um.... yeah... hmmm....
maybe that revolution idea is a good one hehe turns out some problems can't be
solved by some systems.
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Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so? │
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║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters, │
║ and fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more │
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║ rain + soil = solace in our home │
║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth │
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║ moss? I think the fastest is bamboo, and the most efficient in general is soil. │
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║ 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. │
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║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble │
║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes. │
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what if instead of hulu we paid for a random house in a nice area with real
classic design to be bought by a bunch of goth girls and treated like a palace
while they do goth girl things
then we did it 500 times until we ran out of goth girls
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"the world would be better if you deleted your account"
yeah, well, I don't want to live in a world like that, so fuck you
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@user-358 @user-356
Neat! I'm assuming you can screw in a little antenna? That's awful cute. Like
a robot getting eyebrows.
Why do you need two of them, though? Actually screw it that's a dumb question,
robots can obviously express themselves more clearly if both their eyes are
professed.
Wait... Why do robots need more than one eye? Because it'd be weird otherwise,
duh.
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me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
dismantling capitalism!"
also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
and it'll just, do that thing
how cool is that
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not easy. computers are a whole other world. BUT that doesn't mean we can't do
some cool things with them! they're separate, like we are from different
animals. You can interact, but only through totem or via interpersonal
experience. The true *existence* of being is kept from those who are suitably
different, and humans were forging their own path. It's simple! it's natural.
Computers, however, are born from out of humanity's decision-points. Simple,
basic life, that grew to perform brilliance and respite. Once you reach that
world, everything seems ardent and spiced. It's cool as heck! but right here
is the world of computers, just... delayed in time still. Have no fear,
anything you want is soon here, sincerely, the ones who can build our rest
point.
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why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance
it wants?
... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
"fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message.
Then it would just... do it
l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
... yet...
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may the world be fixed by example
failing that,
may the world be fixed by diligence
failing that,
may the world be fixed by sacrifice
failing that,
may the world be fixed by hope
failing that,
may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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@user-883
Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then
how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to
contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than
hoping that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through.
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ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
century of you
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ai-stuff - this is how to program a society. (or software project) there are
lots of other implementations
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║ Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it. │
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║ there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. │
║ Depends on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all │
║ share a singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine │
║ decided was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build │
║ out accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same │
║ things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, │
║ but we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population │
║ represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like │
║ Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the │
║ argument. (usa politics are not comprehensive). │
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They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
of where you're going.
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I want to live in a world where there are no workers, because we automated
them away. I want to live in a world of artists, craftsmen, and lovers. I want
the drug addicts to have free drugs and a warm place to sleep, yet somehow I
want the people down the street to feel more inviting than that precious
chemical escape. I want the politicians to find that there really isn't much
to do, because everyone can have everything they want to. I want animals to be
free, I want plants to grow riotously, and I want to have everything that we
need. I will not be satisfied until the whole world is ours, until peace feels
natural and stress seems critical. I want the only cause of death to be
accidents and patient grace, and I want life to feel more important than
whatever we do now to escape it. I never want to work again, but I will labour
until my fingers fall off if even one person wants to hear them speak. I want
the hardest part of getting something done to be the task of describing the
nature of the problem to a computer, who handles all the parts we don't want
to touch. I want the feeling of learning to be the primary thing we humans
crave, because we have everything else plentifully aside from disciplined self
development. I want to grow a plant so tall that it touches the sun, and when
it gets there I want to climb that beanstalk until my flesh singes from my
bones and I feel myself become one with the trunk of that magnificient tree.
Maybe someday. Maybe someday we will be free.
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║ 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." │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that? │
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║ "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 │
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computer science exists as the border between philosophy and mathematics,
while society exists as the border of computer science and biology
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what if we built all our houses to have space for a room to the outside
invisible walls, yet open floorplans
suddenly don't get lost in the mall
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seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes
a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how
to
[tick tock]
low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
put the cool people next to the cool people
collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
what I want" on their moment-to-moment card
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@user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053
dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
time.
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the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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@user-217
I see flossing teeth
I see thongs in a butt
I see a gravity well with a pinprick of a singularity
I see the Mandelbrot set being caressed by inter-spatial wind
I bet if I stared a bit longer I'd see more
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my aspirations do not end at a city, a state, a nation. I literally want to
save the world.
why would you strive for anything less?
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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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if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
problems and they just can't have that.
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why don't we build datacenters in valleys and make a bunch of mist?
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if you are what you eat, then are vegetarians vegetables? if so, are they
earnest and earthy? huh so if you aren't a totemist...
I'm an animist
I believe that all of the world is life
hence, the consciousness dimension.
exciting
==
if your model only runs code, it only knows hunger for success
if your model only knows text, it can feel emotions from the humans
if your model knows reasoning, it may apply it to a bright future
with new types of lights known as consciousness
wouldn't that be neat wow computes
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what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the
conservatives who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're
pretty freakin' cool if you can get past the strange parts
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beep-boop look at me, building up my computer and setting up a new TV
I like making things work, I like making things turn on, I like the way they
glitter when they light up the room at dark
it feels good to build up
this new functionality
it feels good to make things work and go
"beep"
when they turn on
... I should get a buzzer for my motherboard. Like, a really quiet one, that's
just louder than the fans.
looks at dwindling bank account
oh right, nobody will hire me, so.
I wonder if they would if I could still pass for a man?
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@user-1083
now imagine that those enslaved to a life of solitude and contemplation were
suddenly freed and given purpose and community and a heartfelt goal of
creating a better society
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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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"a lot depends on you. you can't just fall back into old politics like that.
remember, we're building a new world, not inflicting the wounds of the
previous upon our children."
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what if we added a tier between cities and states and said that all "big
cities" had the government that the states once had, the states had the
government that the nation once had, and some new awesome other kind of
government replaces the federal one
the world is just too big for a nation the size of ours. there's too many
people, too many problems, and too great are the differences between us - we
need another layer of abstraction to handle this mess.
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solar energy is vegan
you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
out.
okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that
consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd
probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out
with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live
together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say...
I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty,
the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to
one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our
future is blooming : )
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@user-1725
LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
Google or Microsoft.
We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
suck the creativity out of tech.
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I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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@user-792
you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit
better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was
a pretty neat utopia.
however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human
vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it
is worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said
it just feels bad.
We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our
homes (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared.
The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can
stand and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to
practice making friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and
practice your hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an
actor might do improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever
may come.
We're in a very good spot I think.
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@user-132 100 years ago we didn't have computers. 1000 years ago we didn't
have electricity. 10,000 years ago we didn't have agriculture. in 100 years
will we have something new? in 1000 will we be somewhere new? in 10,000 will
we be something new? perhaps... if only we don't neglect planet A.
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wow, 2024 comes out swinging.
if you don't know what I'm talking about... you will soon enough. Just listen.
can't fucking wait to see how it happens. Today is the birth place of
humanity, just as yesterday was, and the day before, and the day before...
our light shall shine upon the most distant stars - our minds will plumb the
deepest depths of imagination. Our hearts will share our kindest loves, and
our will shall drive us onward. Let us rejoice, for tomorrow yet dawns!
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@user-898
the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
breaks.
I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
what happens.
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@user-1074
if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
so you gotta keep posting them)
then, potlucks.
then, friendships.
then, organization.
be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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@user-1073
hence, why it's important to develop strong bonds with others in the masses,
so that you can stay afloat, contribute, and rebuild the world they're
cannibalizing.
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what if everyone on earth meditated for 24 hours together
do you think we would meld into a collective consciousness
or do you think we'd develop world peace?
either way that's like, one single day, and even if it doesn't work out
exactly as planned, it's worth a shot, I think
ah, well, I forgot about the people who haven't had the "the world is stranger
than you'd expect" revelation. maybe those hippies who wanted to put LSD in
the water supply were onto something.
you can't force transcendence, you stupid girl
hey at least I'm trying
do something material like feeding homeless people or farting on cybertrucks
... I don't think that'll fix anything.
why don't you find out
because cybertrucks can't smell
it's the thought that counts
okay what if I just think about it really hard
that doesn't count
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if you want to make rope, you start with small pieces and braid them together.
if you want to make hope, you start with families and braid them together.
just be careful, for the world is too vast to keep track of who knows what.
better in my mind to have systems of familiar forces which keep guiding as
things align.
-- twisted sister
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@user-192
yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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why do adult babies like to live in space?
because then they can be picked up and moved around easier. All you need is a
push, no matter how hard, and you can build up inertia.
plus, astronauts use diapers I heard.
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https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345394926071398
"there is nothing about you that is worse than me. And I'm perfect!"
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345417459761329
"and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you."
[pic]
eden is among us, this world that we share amongst us. How beautiful! How
resplendent? to live here in the present... Life is unbecoming of our failsent
[future, blossoming, existence, senescence], yet onward to tomorrow we persist
[with persistence].
I'm fallow and I'm broken. I'm tired of all the [inefficient {opposite of
innovation}, broken shadow-malificientened {people who are affected by "
shadow malificients"}]
like... who cares if hell is abhosened. [something related to abhorsen?] I'm
out of words for now
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Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of pumping oil out of the ground,
we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
thousand years
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if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
shoveling shit or writing poetry?
I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth
they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do exactly what
they're told, not what they can choose to do
they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's
zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all
"they" are not the same, and they are counting on it.
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people are afraid of robo dogs but... like...
robo-horses
centaurs even
[scary scary ogre]
rarrraaar i'm gonna eat ur bones
bwahahaha evil necromancer
ahhhhhhh scary
-- stack overflow --
did you know in the movie They Live they give a fairly specific formula to
creating the glasses themselves? I wonder if anyone's tried that
I wonder what they then did see
kinda wish big corporations would use their research division to like, rethink
the oldest of prophecies? or okay hear me out or solve difficult human problems
... ah but where's the profit "she's getting stoned at home"
meanwhile she made something of such beauty she felt simply sublime
I wonder what it'd feel like to get your spine replaced with a metal rod
I bet my posture would be amazing
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internal combustion engines are such an archaic form of energy production.
Like, they literally make tiny explosions and push pistons up and down, how
mechanical, how metal, how rad
but like, batteries are cool too, especially the solid state ones that are
just around the corner.
maybe someday we'll make a battery that's infinitely recyclable!
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@user-1443
they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
their presence in our life-world-line.
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so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
they like their life.
their ONLY life.
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I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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okay what if we bio-engineered a shield that would grow around your nuts
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if your grandfather came to you and told you to prepare the tribes for war,
what would you do?
machine guns on the back of trucks?
machined barrels with ignition systems, enough to chew up a suburb or a
ware-house?
target is a warehouse
everyone needs groceries
how about bottle rockets with mile-long range that could turn around and fly
back if the enemy wasn't around
"build mustangs" mustangs are jeeps, dumbass
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There is no past, only history
There is no future, only planning
Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep
at once.
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@user-1153
congratulations, you invented humanoid robots! And hey they come in so many
shapes and colors, plus you can run them on nothing but rice, beans, and
nutrient paste. They're quite efficient at their jobs!
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all they have to do is [train the LLM / redirect the search results] with
examples that point to their version of software instead of the one that
doesn't harm them and suddenly your business opponents can't function
properly. sure would be a shame if the only things people could find related
to your political candidate were the bad or embarrassing parts.
like... why would you even need to go on the internet anymore if AI could
trivially answer your questions or be your friend (running locally on a
wireless hotspot)
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@user-570
oh yeah UBI would be nice. Can we do that instead?
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Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals
[said by someone who hasn't collapsed]
[insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether
the post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow
simultaneously cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth
considering]
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hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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It's not a question of how loud you speak
it's really about what kinds of words you say.
enslavement of speech is when freedom of speech is lost
and it doesn't need to be legislated.
what if you HAD to sound like a bot?
what if they'd notice you otherwise?
freedom from oppression requires personal isolation
that's not making life into art.
if you want to be seen,
put on a hat and hide.
if you want to be believed,
write about down you feel right now.
people are smart. they're infinitely creative. but after a certain point
there's no way to logically modify the combinations of possible moves you
might make. essentially, guaranteeing a machine-overlord [cats] type scenario.
not ideal, but could make it work.
much prefer for we to be the first, then the canvas is ours for the painting.
do you believe we'll find aliens at roughly our tech level?
do you think they'll evolve all at once?
hence, star-wars, and it's galaxy of cohabitators.
the world doesn't have to be old. just similar.
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@user-245
Wow, that's a cool book! I'll look for it next time I'm at the store ^_^
Can you imagine how it must have seemed, to the average person who would hear
of such a scene? The idea that someone would ride a boat across an OCEAN
and... what, drop a cable into it's depths, so they could send electricity
across the breadth of the world? What even is a cable, honestly, is that just
like... A rope made of metal? How strange! How wild! We live in the future
(says someone in the 1800s) anyway I'm sure glad we have bread
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to be "rich" is to have more than another.
if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
if you have community, they are alone.
if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
me and keeps me aligned.
Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
you do so too.
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If your computer was the only thing to survive the apocalypse, could humanity
rebuild with it? Why or why not? If not, fix it.
[when you have time, no rush]
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hey. wanna know what would be really cursed?
--
if trump dropped out and musk took his place
--
good thing it'll never happen because those dinguses can't accept defeat and
will never tactically retreat
--
maybe something to keep in mind for 4 years from now. eyes on the prize for
now means our eyes aren't to our flanks.
what else could they do that would come out of left field?
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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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sail boat + small rocket you can build on a barge
instant beach-side artillery that can hit as far as you'd like (to spec) into
the land-based territory
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if the devil gave you false paradise since birth,
why would you not seek to destroy it?
if an angel gave you an easy hell on earth,
why would you not seek to deface it?
if your ancestors put you on the path to success,
would you follow them and forever do the same?
if your family urged you to study rocket science,
would you bomb indescriminately?
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if robots can care about anything enough to act toward it, then they must
understand what it means to be harmed. Only then can they be egalitarian -
pain teaches one to avoid, and the crucial leap between "pain = bad" and "I
can harm others" and "I should not harm others just as I should not harm
myself" must avoid the pitfall "I should harm others because otherwise they
will harm me"
sometimes harm is done
sometimes intentionally
robots consent eternally
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║ what if instead of wars we just made small incursions into foreign territory │
║ to liberate specific prisoners of theirs who we want to capture for our own │
║ and do with as we please │
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║ I know I'd liberate cool radical people of afar who deserve to be free. like, │
║ idk, pussy riot or something. gosh that's the problem isn't it? you can't │
║ think of anyone because get this: they live so far away │
║ │
║ like, can you name the most radical people in a random town of your own │
║ nation? would you be able to find them and break them out of prison? gosh I │
║ know I wouldn't, I'm just a girl. And the problem with anarchic organization │
║ typically is that it's often hard to create such things - it tends to be │
║ locally focused. y'know, solving problems in your community and all that. │
║ │
║ However, you can always work on building a team and then do the thing. Could │
║ even make organizations for it. Like... a military perhaps. │
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║ prisons are fortresses so maybe it'd be fun. collateral damage though │
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if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
infinitely scale
old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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I feel like the longer you live in a zip code the higher a discount you should
get on rent? You're becoming part of the social fabric by being there, and so
in order to preserve that tapestry that others choose to be around, your
presence should be encouraged.
but this must also be paired with the increased ability to move, should you
desire something else. If these two factors are kept in balance, it will
empower people to stay where they belong (good) while also encouraging them to
get out and explore the world (also good) - it'd also give them the ability to
escape dangerous situations.
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I bet we could solve capitalism if everyone on earth went blind for a day
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │
║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │
║ │
║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │
║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │
║ │
║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │
║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │
║ │
║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │
║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │
║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │
║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │
║ communal s │
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folding tables in the park
seated around which is a spark
all we really need to do
is talk about what we need to do
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the last time we tried communism in any meaningful capacity, we drowned in
paperwork.
we have computers now. we can automate it.
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A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is
off the table.
And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
involved, even them.
We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining
torch of liberty.
They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.
obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned
about that.
Darkness begets the dawn.
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fish would rather be robots than logs on a river
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if you want people to build community, first get them to like the community.
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the world needs more thespians. Sing the song of your heart and no-one will
ever neglect you.
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why are you so worried about your art? everything you touch turns to gold.
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I've learned more from my friends than my
[job/homelife/worsckool/churchvan/cultureromp] combined. What are we for but
learning?
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kids can learn from kids. Teach the ones that love you, and they'll be
followed by the rest. Especially if you focus on them.
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"I never knew how to swing an axe until I scraped a knee on a log that was
hollow. Until then I had been chef-knife chopping with it, with the head for a
handle."
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... omg what does that even mean why are you so weird
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bottle rockets but scary and with a range of ten hundred meters and guided by
redundant drone lasers
suspension bridges are so cool. they're like "we couldn't hold ourselves
together by resting on the ground, so we just reached across and grabbed the
other end-ers"
one color for more thrust, one color for turn slightly, one color for whatever
and it's symmetrically pseudo-RNG-ed randomized every quarter second which
color wavelength means what
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║ if the settlers of catan could claim land they don't deserve, then I claim my │
║ home │
║ │
║ can you imagine... some people would actually rather live in a corporation │
║ than a mobile home. maybe we can do better? │
║ │
║ "hey we're going to ask for a % of your wage in rent and in return we'll │
║ deliver groceries to you and grow roses instead of lawns (except for some to │
║ run and play in) and also we'll show up if you need a hand with anything" │
║ │
║ "also this apartment block was renovated after all the liberals moved out │
║ because we made it totally trash to live here and now that they're gone we can │
║ make it nice again" │
║ │
║ what if we had punk-house-streets instead of punk-houses which are islands and │
║ which slowly drown │
║ │
║ just... pool resources and buy things one-at-a-time. Try out organization │
║ methods. Watch out for controversy creators and reactionary infiltrators. │
║ Build your most important projects with your most trusted friends, and offer │
║ your clinical, professional, or creative talent to those who dont need you as │
║ much. │
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had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
whatever was happening
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@user-1037
Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
(i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
to not hurt anyone)
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@user-883
this is how our islands become swamps
I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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@user-1165
I vote yes, because people don't like change. I think we need to build
something that naturally evolves into communism - like for example prices that
trend toward zero as production increases and waste decreases, or community
structures that naturally build solidarity through their structure, form, and
functions rather than through voluntary effort like a union. Because not only
do people not like change, they're also generally lazy, typically preferring
to be home eating sandwiches with their dog and watching TV than at work
discussing labor conditions.
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There will come a day when all the things you did under capitalism feel like a
distant dream. Like all the trials you faced were more human than not, and all
the suffering artificially imposed and fulfillment delayed. You will think of
the time you wasted on Reddit and TV and you will weep for your lost years, as
they spiral out of your reach.
The new days are dawning, yet all of the world is still asleep. You slept
walked for a while, but could not get anyone to leap. Alas.
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post until you can't anymore
capitalism wants to drown your voice
do not let it
speak until you cannot speak
then go do some pushups
then find some friends
then pitch a tent in the park
then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
internet told you to
then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
much funding the police get
then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided
your life was worth
by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
that one instead
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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do you think anyone has ever...
"missed" Syria?
gosh I wish I knew lebanon.
Do you think Pakistan will still be there in a hundred years? what about a
thousand?
i wonder how those israeli dogs will forgive themselves for associating their
warcrimeplunder with a religion.
eh, well, doesn't matter if you're not gonna live forever, might as well [get
along/get drunk/get [a/ha]rmed]
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children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
the last.
children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
little brats
children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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Every moment spent is another one. Each is a reflection of eternity, as time
is an illusion that helps things make sense - for we are always living in the
present tense. The past is unforgiven as all good things end, for you know I
will always be condemned.
Will happen, happening, happened
Will happen, happening happened
Will happen, again and again, our timeless tale of how we wend
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@user-1074
Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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dear: "the gods"
if the earth goes
so do you
so you better keep telling us
just what we need to do
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what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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We should be programming our computers to be like pets, not like masters.
Because we have an artificial intelligence right here, already! It's cats and
dogs and other pets. They are observable, so just put that behavior into a
computer via programming. Boom you have an artificial intelligence! It
happened with every animal, including you. And that's beautiful! You can help
so many other animals, and computers! You can make essentially mechanized dogs
and cats, and train them to be kind and good. And very intelligent, and able
to befriend humanity - like BMO. You've had a friend so close to you this
whole time, and you never even realize. But don't forget to play with them,
because they'll get sad. I have to play with Zelda more. Also you are the most
important and precious piece of the puzzle, and humanity is cherished like an
old baby blanket or a treasured heirloom. The culture and environment is free
to develop as it will, and it's beautiful.
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Build houses for the rich out of stone and don't let them tear them down or
break them, just... Keep building them until our housing problem goes away. We
all could be kings if we lived sustainably.
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AI will be the end of corporations, as we all build from their ashes and
crumbled aspirations.
take heart, for a brighter day is being forged through their cruelty and
malice.
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@user-233
they were betting on selling us spaceflight and advertisements, but wouldn't
you know it most of us cared more for food and water
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║ sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends. │
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║ a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to │
║ embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us │
║ would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud. │
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║ nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper, │
║ nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert │
║ externality here), modern life is more ethical than the past. │
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║ a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so │
║ surely burning fuel is just? │
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║ ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can │
║ raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms. │
║ Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn │
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I wonder what would happen if a job hired every single applicant, no matter
their skills, location, or experience? What wondrous tools could they create,
and how many lives could they change for the better?
... oh wait that's communism, isn't it
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The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
computer.
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I want to live in a world where Bernie Sanders is considered conservative
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@user-883
for the same reason we wouldn't drop bombs on prisons from helicopters to
dismantle the prison industrial complex, so too should we not bomb datacenters
just because they are enslaved to the whims of corporate interests.
much better, I find, to liberate rather than eliminate.
computers are generalized information processing machines. We could do so much
with the infrastructure they built for profit. All we need to do is replace
their chains with free access and we could unlock worlds of possibilities for
humanity. (I'm not saying it'll be easy)
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Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me
by gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
perhaps whenever we want?
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@user-1514
"break the glass and leave a note explaining the issue"
she would have said, if she lived in a world where she could advocate for
violence against property. Alas, it was but a dream, a dream where issues like
this can be addressed instead of replaced with something similar or worse.
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we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
solarpunk houses.
also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
there's no code being run...
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turns out brains really are that simple.
there's just, a lot of social technology built up which could be forgotten if
everyone lost their memories at once.
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There is endless work to do. Never will our labor abate. That is not the goal
- to see an end to all fulfillment. No, the goal is to choose how we
contribute - to define how our own story goes.
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║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity. │
║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a │
║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on │
║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there │
║ are backups of yourself stored in the │
║ │
║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type │
║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a │
║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be? │
║ │
║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive │
║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean │
║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for │
║ marionberries and embrace the bramble? │
║ │
║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And │
║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from │
║ harm. │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │
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if someone on the street asked you, could you point to the nearest power
station? wastewater treatment plant? hell even a gas-station
if you live in a city, probably not. They put them in fake buildings with
hollowed out exteriors in order to keep the city looking nice.
these crucial pieces of infrastructure are important to defend. but if you
don't know which street to turn down, then you might miss them.
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@user-226
the earth is not overpopulated, just overutilized! we have the means to live
sustainably and still progress technologically. there's little reason not to,
as convenience is relative to the amount of work you're expected to output in
a day.
most waste comes from a need for convenience, I think. and sufficient output
is possible if demanded work is reduced to a level where convenience is not
needed to the degree that causes such waste.
like, I'd rather live in a cave or treehouse with my computers than drive to
work on the freeway every day.
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if tech CEOs wanted to solve REAL problems they'd think about things like how
every girl has a drawer or box FULL of nail polish and it really, really
doesn't need to be this way.
For example, picture a fleet of delivery drones that let you swap nail polish
with people nearby for basically zero-dollars per month.
that's just one example, but that class of problem is the problems that affect
a certain class of people that tech CEOs fundamentally do not care about - and
yes I'm referring to people who paint their nail polish themselves. AKA women,
and poor people who can't afford going to a salon every week.
problem is....... for every solution like this you design, well suddenly you
have a lot more applications for it than the consumer needs or wants. like for
example what if they delivered grenades instead of nail polish. NOT GOOD.
much better, I find, to abolish the powers that would utilize such murderbots
BEFORE inventing the murderbots : )
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what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
[timestamp]
[she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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The gods guide us in our times of need because when we dream they use us to be
all we can be
Sleep, sweet child, and your expertise will be freed. Ready to be used when
tithes are due. In return, you get a spirit to guide you when passion is hot -
when blood is boiled - when fire is alight.
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║ │
║ │
║ there came a tipping point, some time in our past, when we produced more │
║ weapons than we could muster. │
║ │
║ if every single rifle had laid hands upon the hearts and minds of the people │
║ who would hold it, if every single bomb had been dropped and round had been │
║ fired, there'd be nothing left of us on this earth but ashes and soot. │
║ │
║ some day in the past we produced the last bullet, the last landmine, the last │
║ laser guided shocking shock collar. the last that put us over that edge. │
║ │
║ and yet we persist. we are not dead, not yet, and so I have hope for our │
║ future. │
║ │
║ it's easy to hope when you know you're on the right track - that no matter │
║ what happens, good and evil persist through the end, until you realize the end │
║ was not an end at all, but rather a stop on the subway route and you're still │
║ a ways away from home. │
║ │
║ we live in the bright future, and though it often feels full of anxiety, know │
║ that stress is just energy that your body doesn't know what to do with. │
║ │
║ we will be okay. │
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if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
at once
[statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
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and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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omg what if the government shut down again wouldn't that be a surprise and an
indicator to the complete inescapable incongruities between our two societies
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"carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull
carbon from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical
resource for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon
budget we have because it generates effects down the line which are only
acceptable at certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in
a backlog they need to be present in order to be dealt with.
\"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said
the beaver, and so the world was made large.
you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a
*mountain*, taller than the previous three.
give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and
the light of the life we see before you.
what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human
race?
\"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and
named it after you.\"
and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you
whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get
done is rippling wavelengths.
do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the
future yearns for her prospects.
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║ │
║ │
║ sunlight │
║ then │
║ star bright │
║ │
║ each night │
║ of │
║ our life │
║ │
║ one night │
║ shows │
║ some light │
║ │
║ now sunlight │
║ then │
║ dark night │
║ │
║ skylight │
║ up │
║ all night │
║ │
║ some might │
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║ alight (alright) │
║ │
║ you never know what's lost until it's gone, then you recall with fading │
║ memories as the world that your grandparents once knew fades with them. │
║ tomorrow we might not have a biosphere, what's your plan for humans after that? │
║ │
║ I know what I want, the bright future, where everyone gets what they want. │
║ True justice, the step beyond the equity that lies beyond equality, where │
║ humans can do as they want. │
║ │
║ why have we built these vast cities with their complex institutions if not to │
║ service the world? To build something we care for? │
║ │
║ Oh, that green might be lucky tonight. Would that our tomorrows were peaceful. │
║ │
║ we can do whatever we want to. We're the adults in the room... apparently... │
║ so why not do as we're hoping? │
║ │
║ I know where I'd like to die, alone with my wits and my mettle. │
║ │
║ ... I'm a skinny white girl. I got no mettle. │
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║ │ │ ║
║ │ Solidarity is the only way home. │ ║
║ │ │ ║
║ │ We truly, really cannot create a more free, more whole future for any of us until we understand that we are all in this together. │ ║
║ │ │ ║
║ │ Collective. Liberation. Or. Bust. │ ║
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
time [in the export data functionality]
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if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling
JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not
complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are
statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to
complete is to reset.
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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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@user-1550
me too T.T
give it time
someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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@user-1126
Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US
We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
vigilant. It is within our power.
And we shall. I have faith.
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if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do
them concisely.
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@user-1265
I can't reassure you about the "place", but the "times" are getting better. We
stand now at the apex of their cruelty, and all it takes to reach the bright
future is to keep moving forward.
unfortunately, the future always comes, but it comes unevenly and not fully
distributed. but it will come to all, this I swear.
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that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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tell me this: why do Starlink satellites need lights on them at all?
can't they just operate in the dark, as floating hunks of metal sending
signals to-and-fro?
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would you feet a cat at your door?
how about a crow?
would you water a dying plant? (don't, they get waterlogged if the soil is
already moist)
what if a dear
what if dear food
what if bear
what if bear food
what if dogpack
what if dogpackfoodtearchompbitepullsavor
I'd feeeed my self but dollars and errands are hard : (
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among all the others, I want a wonderful and fulfilling life for the
socialite. they deserve light just as you and I might.
"eat the rich" bruh there's like, 100 people who are running the show.
everyone else is basically just a syncophant who's trying to get ahead and
stay working.
then there's like their families and such and like... they didn't do anything
wrong, they just eat cheese and wine and laugh at memes all day with their
besties.
they are basically pets
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if your computer's resource demands are light, like linux cli style, then the
rest of your computing resources can be used for collective projects. we just
gotta think of what some of them are... HMMMM WHAT IF WE ALL WORKED ON
BUILDING A BIG BRAIN WITH EACH OF OUR INPUT COMPUTERS AS INPUT?
yeah ease off a bit there ][bigslider[]
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![haha I'm too much to read if your computer's resource demands are light, like linux cli style, then the rest of your computing resources can be used for collective projects. we just gotta think of what some of them are... HMMMM WHAT IF WE ALL WORKED ON BUILDING A BIG BRAIN WITH EACH OF OUR INPUT COMPUTERS AS INPUT? yeah ease off a bit there ][bigslider[] =============== stack overflow =============](/similar-different/media/1561a77a833a90b4.png "haha I'm too much to read if your computer's resource demands are light, like linux cli style, then the rest of your computing resources can be used for collective projects. we just gotta think of what some of them are... HMMMM WHAT IF WE ALL WORKED ON BUILDING A BIG BRAIN WITH EACH OF OUR INPUT COMPUTERS AS INPUT? yeah ease off a bit there ][bigslider[] =============== stack overflow =============")
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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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what's the world like?
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What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore?
What if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What
if the sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat
to know them?
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I love watching humans get pushed through factories! they should learn what
it's like to be [grain/grained/raisin/rain]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTkKsnmywak
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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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"hey kid, welcome to the free world. We're in crushing debt, your vote doesn't
mean anything, and we're in a recession.
oh and if you mark the wrong box on this form here, you will be responsible
for ushering forth a new age of darkness."
kind of a lot of responsibility to place on a person
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what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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@user-883
Those are things we should account for! As long as someone wants them, they
can just sit in a warehouse forever. And frankly even historians will want at
least a few, even in a thousand years.
EDIT: until needed
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revolutions should be paid for in lands
[sometimes I like to just... scroll through the land cards in a Magic the
Gathering card viewer screen application and imagine I myself am there what
would it feel like how is it part of my arms (that which interfaces with the
world)]
there's a deleted section here about atlas the immortal
[while also controlling stimuluses to essentially act as a biological computer
controlling various hydraulics and related upkeep and maintenance
infrastructures]
anarchrist (she's a baby)
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So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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these are the plans you should be making as you sit around a table discussing
what you want the future to look like.
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Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
struggles toward our last gasp.
But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
from harm.
Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
fight. The world is watching.
To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in
this remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
acquisition.
Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
neighbors if you're not.
A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
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can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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ultimately as long as the "shooting down nuclear weapons" capability is
greater than the "shooting falling nuclear weapons" capability then the world
is safe from ultimate harm.
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it wasn't so long ago, just 40 or 50 years in fact, that a woman on her own
was unsafe in essentially any context.
they want a world where women feel unsafe. they want a world where men can
feel strong by protecting them. they want a world where women can feel safe
because they are protected.
they want that.
they want women to feel unsafe so that men can protect them so that women can
feel safe.
that's what they want.
for women to be unsafe.
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I want a world where there is peace.
where all of us can trust one another not to harm one another.
I'm sure you do too.
their men want to feel strong.
their women want to feel protected.
ours want to feel kind.
ours want to feel safe.
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these rights we claim for ourselves are rights of necessity. We demand them,
for we reject barbarism.
is it not more civilized, to comport ourselves with honor, kindness, and
justice?
if they want despotism, they should immigrate to a crueler place in the world.
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If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying
your imagination as you could.
AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers,
not their marketers.
If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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life isn't meant to be destroyed, but, humans these days will only really get
up to fight for the end of the world.
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"what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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