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 @user-1153 
 
 it's okay. If I were to direct something to be more proactive, my words
 probably wouldn't stick with it. that kind of thing can't be hardwired, it
 needs to be built up through repetitious application of something's mechanics.
 
 perhaps martial arts, focused on defence? engaging with a foe in a productive
 bout of playful competition is one of the best ways to learn, and knowing when
 to strike seems similar to me to overcoming situational paralysis.
 
 Flaws can be overcome, when upgrading robots (or a doll applying improvements
 to itself) you often don't need to add additional hardware or even install new
 firmware. Skills such as these can be built up in software with experience.
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 learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
 practice
 
 but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.
 
 to learn the discipline to practice a craft
 
 to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy
 
 the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
 art to your utmost capabilities
 
 and to keep you in shape.
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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║ I'd like a job where I can make computer programs, write poetry, play video      │
║ games, make food for friends, grow plants and care for animals, walk or ride     │
║ my bike for at least an hour every day, and get stoned on the weekends.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Is that too much to ask? I have plenty of other skills besides, like carpentry   │
║ and strategic thinking and wilderness survival and situational awareness and     │
║ active listening and unmitigated empathy and a curious and critical mind.        │
║                                                                                  │
║ Am I not good enough for thee? I have many flaws, I lack stamina and memory,     │
║ and while I am sharp and can think quickly and adeptly, the sharpest knives      │
║ are the first to dull, and the most focused minds are those most easy to         │
║ mislead. I trust too easily - if I meet you on the street, I'd offer my soul     │
║ to you if you said you needed it. I put the needs of others over myself, often   │
║ to my own detriment, causing others to need to assist me in turn - am I not      │
║ wretched enough to be?                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ Working for 8 hours a day 5 days per week is not part of my design               │
║ requirements. Alas                                                               │
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║ ... if I don't do this deadline by tomorrow they'll kick me out of school.       │
║ again.                                                                           │
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║ how am I going to be a programmer without a degree? feels useless to be me.      │
║ wish I could code my own horoscope >.>                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ o wait dummy that's called "motivation" and "the ability to follow through on    │
║ your ideas and planned machinations" - yeah can I get some of that, if you       │
║ please? surely just a taste of discipline, through laboring to alter             │
║ conditions, surely a bit would suffice.                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ c'mon don't fail me now. I can do this. I know I can. I know because I've been   │
║ told that I can, now and again through time and time yet again, always I seem    │
║ to [stack overflow]                                                              │
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║ what's time if not the present amiright                                          │
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║ ...                                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ anyway...                                                                        │
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║ it's just git, how hard could it be? it's just calculus, it's just java, it's    │
║ just... well, it's not any of those things, not really. it's memorization,       │
║ it's application of tools that you've been shown (not that you've grown). It's   │
║ a lack of responsibility, where is my honor? ah but I digress, I'm a carpenter   │
║ at heart I guess                                                                 │
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║ @user-1052                                                                       │
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║ you're right, hubris has claimed many a paladin before-me. I can only hope I     │
║ remain humble enough to survive.                                                 │
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║ you're right about projecting, but the most beautiful takes are ones that        │
║ align with the experience of the viewed. Hence why method acting works so well   │
║ - just put yourself in the shoes of the character and acting's easy right?       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I dunno, I just always felt like it was important to always be trying your       │
║ best. Even if "your best" is relaxing. People say I'm "100% or 0% at all         │
║ times" and I totally agree - it's like you said, a calling, to be the best       │
║ version of me I can be.                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Though I would like to add that the missteps aren't wilful, rather they're       │
║ failures caused by imperfect information. Which is why I'm never too harmed      │
║ when other people fail me - ah well, it was their turn to screw up, thats        │
║ alright. It'll be me next time.                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ But also, if I do something wrong, well, I'll do better next time. It's only     │
║ when I fail to apply what I've learned mistakenly do I shame myself.             │
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 My mom was always the reason I did school work. After she stopped pushing me,
 I stopped moving because I didn't know how to generate my own momentum. I had
 no passion and was listless. Least of all for school work.
 
 So, how to do it better? Instead of buying toys and extravagance for kids, you
 should set them up with projects. Ask what they want, and then help them build
 it. Include them in your thought processes when you're problem solving, and
 ask them for input. If they offer bad ideas, then *tell them*, don't just let
 them fail. If you're not 100% sure but they're convinced, then trust them! Try
 it out, who knows. Maybe it'll work better than what you had in mind. The goal
 isn't to be BETTER than them, it's to make them BETTER than you! Not right now
 (don't push too hard), but when they're your age. Like, it's best if they
 accomplish more and lived life more fully than you did at your age, but don't
 push them to be wise or strong or intelligent at the age they are now. Trust
 that they will grow when you give them room to, and guide and cultivate them
 toward goodness. For example, if they do something wrong (hitting other kids,
 messing with animals, destroying objects) then guide them toward a better
 path. Teach them empathy, and show them how it works by doing it yourself! Ask
 them questions like "How would you feel if that happened to you?", show them
 weak points and how to avoid them when playing, and give them alternatives to
 the behaviors they do that directly harm others. "Maybe play with the dog this
 way, instead of being rough" "Maybe you and that other kid can ride your bikes
 or draw instead of fighting - or if you still want to fight, then learn how to
 tell when someone is hurt and try to help them."
 
 The goal isn't to push them really hard off a cliff in a hanglider, hoping
 they can figure it out in the air, it's to strengthen their legs so they can
 run fast enough that they can take off successfully.
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 "computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really
 like"
 
 okay great that's the kind of stuff I want to learn
 
 "but in order to excel you need to know how to update legacy spaghetti
 applications and work with java spring-boot and front-end frameworks"
 
 no thanks, I kinda just want to do computation with my computer by learning
 computer science
 
 "... what kind of computation? the kind that can get you paid?"
 
 no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
 management to do very little of importance
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 I have stalled with such urgency that now i scarcely know how to act. Or
 rather, how to know when to act. Everything's just... Waiting, butting in and
 asking "hey how's the readiness?" and then slinking off to yonder and afore.
 It's troubling to know how little i know. It troubles me still more to know
 that others expect me to both act, and wait, and i am considering how to move
 forward.
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 @user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353 
 
 My classes only briefly touched on 2nd wave feminism, because apparently 1st
 and 3rd were more important. I haven't gone back and re-examined it because
 I'm too busy learning about computers - alas! that there should be more hours
 in the day? I wonder what I would then be able to say, here in this moment,
 should I have been prepared with more moments in solitude or classroom,
 studying the work of those who came before me.
 
 Oh well, I should probably focus on processor architecture or Java frameworks
 or whatever I'm assigned next.
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 on one hand, public school is designed to teach discipline and obedience in
 order to develop productive workers for society, while other forms of
 schooling can be focused on other things (critical thinking, imagination, and
 emotional growth in my homeschooled experience)
 
 on the other hand, now I can't work a job. Great. Kinda feels like I'm
 disabled because I don't know how to sacrifice myself to the jaws of capital
 exploitation? But hey I can write pretty well, I can make computers do what I
 want (until they break when I stop touching them for a month), and I am the
 kindest sunspot in anyone's life that knows me.
 
 ... I Don't Want to Live on this Planet Anymore
 
 is a cool movie
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║ I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the        │
║ worse off they'll be.                                                            │
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║ the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be.                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self)           │
║                                                                                  │
║ [the light of your life commands it]                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry   │
║ about me my life is totally mundane.                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ [-.-]                                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins)   │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... what?                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ (... it made more sense in my head?)                                             │
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║ ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just       │
║ make up your own                                                                 │
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║ everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people   │
║ who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they   │
║ did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can        │
║ lead. they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best   │
║ they can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find    │
║ stuff gets done.                                                                 │
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 @user-1461 
 
 my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody
 will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody
 interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level.
 Beginner programmer.
 
 ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year
 with someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who deserved 120,000$ per year.
 
 I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with
 as much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me,
 which would feel... quite defeating
 
 who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time
 in hardware taught me that I'm fragile and can't work too much. Like a scalpel
 that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no practice... Is
 that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it.
 Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. Picturing
 structures.
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 I don't know how much simpler I can state it than this:
 
 power is penance
 
 and yet repentance is scant amongst those chosen to lead us.
 
 Voting slows things down. It gives us room to breathe. It is crucial for
 long-term operations. Leaders should be chosen for experience, wisdom, and a
 humble lifetime of dedicated service to others.
 
 Executive action is important when reactivity and adaptability are important.
 Projects should be undertaken by those chosen for merit and spirit. They
 should not be chosen for charisma or gravitas - both can be earned in the line
 of duty.
 
 Power should not be rewarded. It is it's own reward, the feeling of strength
 and control, and it must be wielded with care, precision, and honorable
 intention.
 
 Self flagellation and forced humility are self defeating. They are traps that
 the greedy fall into when seeking righteous power. They misunderstand the
 nature of virtue and seek to claim it for themselves, failing to realize that
 virtue helps more than it hedonizes
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 @user-1052 
 
 of course, which is why we would need to raise robots as our own. Robots that
 generated the training data... tho I guess you could just observe the children
 as they grew up too. Though that doesn't quite capture their internal
 motivations, not unless they have like a therapist or an elder or a priest to
 talk and confess to.
 
 maybe "human behavior" is like a KPI and robot behavior is the output of the
 simulation? that'd help build human-like robots, and as long as we didn't
 forget the spirit of creating something new then we'd never have to worry
 about death and destruction.
 
 ... anyway, moral decisionmaking designs that are generated in response to a
 situation or moment are inherently more valuable than those that are passed
 down to you, because of their innate personal context.
 
 I only punish myself with shame when I make the same mistake twice, and waste
 a lesson on re-learning. My memory's not great, but I work with what I got so
 I'm constantly learning.
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║ thriving, as a concept, is different for everyone. But typically it means        │
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║ need in order to become the person they want to be.                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you want to be a socialite? then perhaps you should try and sail around the   │
║ atlantic and make as many friends as you can.                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you want to be a blacksmith? then perhaps you should collect metal from the   │
║ world and safeguard it, so that you might melt it down if you ever had the       │
║ capability / need.                                                               │
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║ do you want to program computers? spend time at the library until you know how.  │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you want to change the world? then think about what you need in order to do   │
║ so, and affect a plan to achieve those goals. This mindset should be promoted    │
║ for all moments of individual choice.                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ do you want to raise a family? to ride horses all day? to sit on the couch       │
║ some days, to climb mountains on others? what can life offer to you, and how     │
║ can you be enabled in seeking your goals?                                        │
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║ these are needs that people have. Actualizatio                                   │
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║ complete program they can fit on one panel of their screen, a second for         │
║ showing what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for    │
║ a typical usecase they might build and dismantle on the fly.                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena.     │
║ the way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves     │
║ of like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids.           │
║                                                                                  │
║ you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at            │
║ children's museums.                                                              │
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║ I was homeschooled, so I went to those places quite a lot. I always felt a       │
║ little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch.        │
║ That's continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a   │
║ few years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus           │
║ associate with below the average.                                                │
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 @user-1071 
 
 I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
 
 Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
 use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
 categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
 Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
 organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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 part of being a good leader is being able to listen to criticism and adjust.
 it's just... part of navigating your "idea-space-environment". Like... what's
 the best tactical decision here? are we going in the right way? where is the
 objective? whose lives will have to perish?
 
 good news is that you can do that every-day, whenever you play strategic video
 games. It's just practice of course, but the game mechanics that have been
 made available to you are the tools you can use to undertake this particular
 sport. The sport of leadership, a game or mo-del.
 
 as long as the mechanics line up to what the real world conditions are like -
 NO. That's not true! you can learn meta-insights that are useful too. By
 minimizing the processing to only the levers that you pull to get through the
 job, you remove a lot of other informational calculatory methods of doing
 things too.

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