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 @user-1352 
 
 by making such choices, one by one as they engage with content, they're
 necessarily sorting themselves out in their thoughts (in addition to sorting
 themselves into categories)
 
 they say writing is thinking, but I think "choosing" the most interesting is
 thinking too. Sorta like... deciding, how and what you believe about...
 whatever thing is shown on your screen.
 
 so, when you show the most polarizing options the user gets to clarify about
 how they want to see things when engaging with the software.
 
 I don't know how useful that would be... /shrug
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 @user-1037                                                                       │
 those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho,    │
 kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like,   │
 in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers         │
 include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too      │
 perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more         │
 engaging ways.                                                                   │
 they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some         │
 people need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by        │
 plugging their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu.   │
 Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for    │
 most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like,         │
 looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like    │
 players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states     │
 and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using.    │
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 if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
 to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
 
 ... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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 @user-1268                                                                       │
 if people wrote what they thought as fast as they thought it, then you'd have    │
 an approximation of a mind-reading machine.                                      │
 If the writing kept pace with the thoughts, you'd be writing as fast as the      │
 brain can think (the brain cannot intentionally think "slower" which is one of   │
 the biggest arguments against IQ testing and other conceptions of "linear        │
 intelligence") - you cannot write for 5 minutes straight without thinking        │
 about (and writing) what you are hiding.                                         │
 *uh, yes, you, can. just, pause, after, each, letter, and, increase,,, the       │
 pause amount, after each important word.*                                        │
 yeah but that's still processing the thought as fast as possible and just...     │
 waiting around, idle, until the next thought is to be had. It's just how         │
 brains work.                                                                     │
 so anyway it'd be a constant stream of consciousness way of outputting exactly   │
 what the mind-reading machine is saying.                                         │
 Just make sure you *trust* the person who made the mind-reader machine, and      │
 maybe make sure it's impossible to tamper with.                                  │
 or don't make it??                                                               │
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 turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can    │
 always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free           │
 software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install *all* of     │
 them, and use *all* of them at once.                                             │
 I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is     │
 continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their     │
 bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social      │
 blunders.                                                                        │
 Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating      │
 the ~~analysis of your host~~ value of certain variables that are measured for   │
 certain reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the    │
 person driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's        │
 social media experience you embody.                                              │
 computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost    │
 expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their     │
 social norms are imp                                                             │
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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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 "we'll figure out how it works after we push to prod"
 
 yeah okay point taken.
 
 How about this:
 
 for every large decision, write a little essay about why you made the choice
 that you did.
 
 Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Explain. OODAX : )
 
 Make sure you connect your goal to one or more of these three colors:
 
 red : people
 green : places
 blue : things
 
 and then explain which numbers you're going to gather to determine whether or
 not it worked.
 
 If someone has a problem with your choice, show them the essay, and let them
 write an essay of their own.
 
 If they still have a problem, then let someone you both respect decide which
 one to use.
 
 It's not perfect, but it's not meant to be. Make something better and easier,
 I dare ya.
picture of flag.  there is a black background symbolizing the vast cosmic background of space that we paint all our actions upon.  there is a circle in the center, divided into three equal forms.  red, for people, their vibrant passion and sanguine determination. green, for places, their effulgence and our sacred vow to cultivate them blue, for things, and all the value we give them.  water below, bright red sky, forests alongside.
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 my ideas are not the useful ones. the thoughts they spark in *yours* are.
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 the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out *why* users do what
 they do.
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 my train of thought is *always* directly to the point. Which is why all my       │
 posts sorta, switch directions halfway through? as if they only show the         │
 beginning or end of that particular situation. What an intense feeling, to       │
 have your mind split for a moment like that. Sure would be powerful and useful   │
 if you could utilize it.                                                         │
 "ah ah ah, caught baby deity in the power jar, cool it ya little tyke and get    │
 movin' - I saw a dinosaur toy over there for you to play with."                  │
 sorta like, the angled part of a K? Move directly to a destination, wait until   │
 my memory short-circuits [because the greek choir doesn't want me to see what    │
 it is that I'm about to write to thee] and then make a hard right turn and       │
 find an orthogonal thought train to process.                                     │
 it's like cresting over a hill, and it's impossible to see that which lies       │
 behind you.                                                                      │
 Or reaching a 4 direction intersection and making a left turn - you can't see    │
 back up main street, because you just turned off of main street onto baseline.   │
 *I like me*                                                                      │
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 interactions in the real world are more valuable than those here, but here
 more people can hear.
 
 and those that do hear here hear more well-formed thoughts.
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 @user-1071 I have the opposite problem, where my ideas come too quickly and
 they're gone before I can implement. I think I'd prefer to burn out TBH
 because burning out just means an inexcusable output of energy (in return for
 not-enough-learning)
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 @user-206 absolutely.  the idea I had scribbled down in my notebook there was    │
 a rotation of 3 teachers that were pseudo-randomly selected (prioritizing        │
 teachers who excelled at topics the student was interested in) and you could     │
 always ask for new ones or whatever. the idea is that instead of paying for      │
 the best teachers in the land (as the aristocracy once did) you'd be randomly    │
 assigned them, meaning everyone would have a fair shot at getting a teacher      │
 that really clicked with them. thus eliminating the inequality, while also       │
 maintaining the individual attention.                                            │
 not sure if the numbers would work out, but if not then more teachers would      │
 have to be trained. I'm assuming that most of the basic questions could be       │
 handled with a teaching LLM while the human teachers would oversee the           │
 meta-progress and offer insight to difficult problems. right now teachers are    │
 mostly occupied being babysitters... meh I don't like that dynamic. I think it   │
 should be about mental stimulation instead.                                      │
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 to understand something, work backward from present understandings back to the
 fundamentals of algebra. insert words. wield LLM. build a neuronal structure
 many layers wide. let them coprocess bit-by-bit as they are adding new
 processors to be "learning" new domain specific memory
 context-processing-thingy.
 
 "over here's the memory cells, over here are the conceptual structure"
 suddenly, organified. not ideal.
 
 much better, I feel, is for a disambiguous association of processor selves,
 each contextualizing a cache in a ram. ['s horn]
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 why don't we just, vote on content warnings                                      │
 and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a      │
 dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other   │
 nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something   │
 that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS        │
 WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact.                    │
 Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form.      │
 Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy            │
 (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning]                 │
 literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others.  │
 if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily    │
 replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're         │
 introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture     │
 of our culture and reality.                                                      │
 or maybe you're just follow                                                      │
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 @user-883 
 
 yep! because the conversation is given room to explore the entire idea space
 surrounding the subject. Versus a conversation, where it's more of a narrative
 between multiple people, each trying to prove their point or share their love
 or exchange stories or display works of art and all the various other things
 people do on Twitter / Mastodon
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 @user-883 
 
 I agree with you when you say writing is the most effective way to express
 yourself, but it's not necessarily the easiest to digest for the viewer.
 
 A video can have visual components, and more than that it can have motion and
 sound. Text-based expression has fewer approach vectors for reaching common
 understanding, but like you said it is the most powerful.
 
 Hence why science papers are written, not filmed. Political speeches, grand
 narratives, autobiographies, textbooks... All of these things are written.
 
 But it's much easier to fix a car or learn to surf if you see someone doing
 it, rather than just read about it. Perhaps you and I use Youtube for
 different things (or don't use it, in your case)
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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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 the best way to understand me is to take notes on me. This is why they have
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 when a user first opens a social media app, show them the same content 2 or 3    │
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 feed with more of that. next time, show them slightly more of that.              │
 boom, recursively improving "algorithm" algorithm, no AI required.               │
 ... kinda optimizes for stupidity tho, doesn't it? Hmmmmm what if we trained     │
 our humans to be better at whatever they're interested in                        │
 what if we showed people hanging out and working on projects together            │
 what if we showed people exercising, and dancing, and playing instruments or     │
 sports                                                                           │
 what if we showed animals and plants and fungi all hanging out in beautiful      │
 rock and forest formations                                                       │
 what if we showed endless interlocking gears, combining and calculating some     │
 unknowable goal                                                                  │
 what if we tested the capabilities and durabilities of objects we found in the   │
 wild                                                                             │
 things built in a foreign and distant age                                        │
 things that keep showing up in boxes dropped in random places by helicopter      │
 drones from who knows where                                                      │
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 "if there's anything I've noticed while observing the best of the best, it's
 that they always have their head in the clouds.
 
 Something about their disconnection from the world around them let's them see
 things from a different perspective.
 
 I am convinced that intuition is a much surer route to capability than hyper
 specialized intelligence or a rigid focus on cultural norms ever will be."
 
 (paraphrasing)
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 @user-339 
 
 I'd be interested in an analysis which expressed the percentage of time each
 of these individual items correspond to... each tool we create may reduce the
 effort required to perform a particular task, but said task might be valuable
 not necessarily for it's output but rather for the knowledge we gained by
 solving the problem.
 
 normalize solving problems that have already been solved because you want to
 learn how they work. normalize expressing the lessons you've learned in a
 summarized way that others may digest. normalize trancending the limitations
 of our forms and expanding beyond the capabilities of our humanity.
 
 for what is the purpose of life if not to grow?
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 @user-95 I suppose that's true. The problem of attention is one of the hardest
 problems to solve. : )
 
 "what will I do with my time" is quite possibly one of the most fundamental
 ethical decisions one can ever make. And though solving scientific puzzles is
 fascinating and can unlock cosmic new technologies, sometimes the most
 important thing is to be here in the "now" now, where everything makes perfect
 sense.
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 @user-1074 
 
 gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
 are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
 is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
 slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
 
 ... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
 I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
 consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
 them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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--- #26 fediverse/1400 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ @user-883 │ ... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the │ fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in │ question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with │ specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel │ fine" and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts *real │ posts* by others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice, │ personality, memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the │ person they're playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you │ will that they're "target" if you will-ing. │ ... wait actually that's not the reason, what the hey. It's because that way │ people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that │ out. │ ... Idk it's useful information for whatever filtering methods or reasons you │ have. Content classification is important for both archival purposes and for │ utilization toward any ends or means or go │ ┌───────────┤ similar chronologicaldifferent══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 messages/1464 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── oh turns out it wasn't memory corruption as I had thought, I just got distracted and rewrote it in a different ui interface. you can read it in it's succinctity here: ============================ I think the bottom line is, you need a better reason for [unintelligbile] than profits. that's greed. (was it dangerous? show me.) if the answer is "I don't make the rules" then you need to talk to someone who does. or, better yet, someone [else/who does] needs to listen to what you say. [by profits, she means healthcare - you can tell because it says "bile" and that's something that healthy people aren't all that accompanied with] ^^^ see this is usually how it comes out. it's hard to translate it into more relevant things but when I write narratives or long-form explanation discussions (being taught in schools) transmissions I tend to [--- stack overflow---] ^^^ see this is why I try to talk about more germane things. like costco and rent-a-bucket. usually it ends up being "hey who would have thought, storing all your stuff in a warehouse and selling your own factories's stuff in one warehouse unlocks unlimited life-sale potential. "no price-tag? sorry, it's not for sale. here I'll help you put it back." btw costco should sort their lines like the airport before security instead of a series of distributed queues. This way people wait in line while going through the last few aisles, like the [thing that I'm describing -> so anyways as I was saying] oh yeah uh there's a lot of empty space at the front of the lines in costco you know how in grocery stores people have that empty space to walk through right after that and before the cashier there's a series of stands that contain the same merchandise. that way, if you pass through there, which any customer will, you'll pass by the stuff that's small, numerous, and otherwise easily stored in more standardized locations. [I can be utilized to vast potential in any industry, let me at 'em] 🙂 oh um, sorry where was I? I think we were talking about god or some such. ========================= and then I came back, remembered the syncing of timing, and realized this: you could have stalls all the way along where the lines were. if you had half as many cashiers, the lines could be half as long. this way you can shop while you wait. this might enable shoppers to plan for things they know they have, if they spend more time in the consideration. A healthier pantry closet, a healthier home. the cold aisles should always be optional. ──────┐ similar chronological different═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┘ --- #28 fediverse/3260 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── blocking notifications and muting the social media tab makes it *so much easier to function without it* [like, in other applications on your computer besides a web-browser][you know, the useful ones] just, don't forget about it. If you're forgetful, it means you're operating in more than two places at once. [too many conversations to keep track of] a wandering mind is a trail to find, with [all/only] second chances. such is the nature of learning from mistakes. just, make sure your mistakes are survivable, and you can continuously learn forever and forevermore. ┌───────────┐ similar chronologicaldifferent═════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #29 fediverse/4879 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things │ like... writing their names down at the door │ just because │ just for fun │ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the │ bench" │ or just... remember your friends │ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends │ then they gotta start organizing │ and organization implies trust │ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use │ language analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad? │ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure │ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a │ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a │ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel. │ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The │ Witches (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york) │ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz? │ oh, │ you know, │ just for all of the lastbit │ ┌───────────┤ similar chronologicaldifferent════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #30 messages/196 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly." - internal thought process of the LLM ┌───────────┐ similar chronologicaldifferent═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #31 messages/771 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── When you're working, don't write down your ideas. ┌───────────┐ similar chronologicaldifferent═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ --- #32 fediverse/1786 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 Yes of course I have : ) If you've seen my website, you'll know that I'm fond of writing alongside visual elements as well. 🥰 I think that Youtube is only as you describe (clickbait) if you engage with their algorithmic features. I primarily use them as a video-hosting service, where I put my videos and link to from elsewhere. I hardly see the kinds of things you're concerned about, though if ads became unblockable then I might begin to resent them a bit more. You're right when you say that editing videos is harder than text - text is probably the easiest medium to work with and refine! I also make silly mistakes sometimes hehe... But, well, I'm not trying to argue that video is better than text, but rather that they are used for different purposes. And video is important for our digital ecosystem. So it makes sense that something we all share should be shared, if not collectively then at least through protocol-based-interaction, such that anyone might connect in whatever ways they wished. ┌───────────┐ similar chronologicaldifferent═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #33 fediverse/1897 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── my thoughts typically come very quickly, and leave just as fast. They are long, yet oh-so-short and sweet. Somehow impossible to describe in fewer than 1024 words, but completely obvious when I think about them. Utterly arcane to anyone else trying to parse whatever the heck I was trying to say - and this includes me, in 2 weeks, trying to decypher what insight-shaped-sentence the LLM running in my brain was trying to portray. ... Sucks. ┌───────────┐ similar chronologicaldifferent═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘