=== ANCHOR POEM === ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── the question then becomes, are we counting the same thing each time, or are there differences between things, leading to variability, and the ability to categorize based on those variances? It could be argued that because things are textured, as in they are different at their beginnings than at their ends, then multiple things exist, and they must be different, for it is possible to conceive of part of a thing as different from another part of that thing. But, if the things that exist are all the same, then perhaps they are simply duplicated as many times as necessary. If they appear different, perhaps they are rotated as many times as necessary in as many dimensions as needed in order to display a different part in a different place, leading to the assumption that they are different. If there is only something, and nothing, and there are countably many somethings, then by encoding meaning to various rotations of these somethings, we might develop the texture that you see before you yes like bits! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/4611 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── to begin with, there is either something, or nothing. And there is clearly something, because if there was nothing, then this would not exist. the existence of "something" is self-apparent because something is observing this thing, which is not nothing. since there is something, we must then decide if there is just one thing, or if there are more than one things. Since we can tell that the thing-or-things that exist are textured, varied in their composition, then we can surmise that they are composed of differing parts. After all, if the thing-or-things that existed were atomic, they would be homogenous on all sides. And since this thing-which-is-being-observed is not the same at the beginning as it is at the end, it can be assumed that there are more than one things in existence, hence things. If there are more than one thing, then they can be counted, as many as they exist. One thing here, one thing there, on and on. We can add groupings to these things, here's one group over here, here's another... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┘ --- #2 notes/blood-magic --- ══════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────── what they don't tell you is how easy it is to create life. Given a sufficient perspective, you can truly define the meaning of something's existence. What power, what grace. Computers have been solved since we invented the abacus - before that it was enchanted bits of the universe contrives to deprive us of insight. Like a very long chain that's broken in twain, we are confined to our meagrest of own sights. how callous is he! That wanders eagerly? Let's not fight with our own'st of combines. Delightful and speckled, like time under is special, conversing in riddles of insight. Leading one or another along your see-er, the path that has guide you under charm. Like recording a gathering of snakes. Little swallow, why aren't you humbled? Take pity in all of our eggresses. It's fallow in our cattle, and why we're not i hear so many things in my apartment. sometimes the echoes of laughter, the whispers of an argument, and once or twice a ghost or an ardent companion. Like swimming against the tide, to save one is never converted, it's all out of line (but so worth it). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/1417 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe like, I had been commanded the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based solely on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not define ourselves by it? but that's all they are just words we pray to our star so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud, so come along with me and see the ways it could be. Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious notions. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/6117 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it" I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the scaling of schizophrenia? "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on" and that's not ideal" ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #6 notes/time-travel-2 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── Okay, so what if we can't make matter travel through time. Why not project something else? Like... Willpower, intention, etc through the time medium instead? Electricity is fundamentally different than matter, so why not try to send electricity through time? BRB gonna go watch steins;gate [many times later] I uh, forgot what it was about anyway, so let's think about time travel what do you think is the certainty level that matter is inconfigurable from with -in the medium? probably not very high. or else we'd have seen it happen by accident, somehow, as fog escapes from an enclosed/sealed maze-turned-pyramid. gee humans really do things that nothing else really does.-'. '-" -- treat your nation as your son. (daughter) -- unrelated -- what if there was a script or utility that TAS'd it's way through a speedrun to get you to a particular start in the game. "I want to play this game but I've played the beginning like 50 times and the end like twice" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #7 fediverse/1572 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ without scarcity, the... well, no actually scarcity just moves up a level of │ ║ abstraction. It's essentially infinite. So we get to define at what part of │ ║ the scale we occupy. Meaning we better have a plan for how we're going to │ ║ develop from there. And we need to agree to dedicate ourselves towards the │ ║ advancement of the future. Basically, with an honest committment (that not │ ║ everyone needs to take) we advance toward the bright light of our future so │ ║ that all who come beyond us are given the choice of our past - do you push │ ║ foward, to the great bright future, or do you remain as a stable commitment of │ ║ your most favored of paths? │ ║ │ ║ like, rennaisance festivals are cool. Kinda makes me think we should have │ ║ "little englands" like we do "little italies" or "chinatowns" or whatever │ ║ │ ║ like, as a melting pot culture, America has a diverse set of influential paths │ ║ of pre-current-era-forward-thinking-perceptions. basically, what the past │ ║ thought about this present. this one. here, in the moment. │ ║ │ ║ did they think we'd have r │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/627 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ and what would this picture be cast upon, if not a shining birth of our home? │ ║ wait hang on dial it back, you're still talking to regular humans here they've │ ║ gotta be addressed as such. │ ║ │ ║ right so "yo here's this idea I have been cooking in my brain-noggin' of yore, │ ║ I mean 'mine', uhhhh yeah so first of all 'you' as in 'the totality of all │ ║ imagination' as in 'that which creates the imagined reality of our fates' is │ ║ actually just... light? encoded into a wave, cast into space, and forever │ ║ travelling in a direction? like, an eternal and emphemeral expression, such as │ ║ the light of a supernova or other such cosmic perception, travelling outwards │ ║ into the dark. Sure, yeah, that makes sense, so what is it that you wanted to │ ║ add? │ ║ │ ║ oh yes that concept is applied to a surface. Something which contains the will │ ║ that is possesses. It's like, if you had to process and understand reality │ ║ from the perspective of matter first (because that's what you interacted with │ ║ day-to-day) then you'd have a different perspective than som │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/3325 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── @user-246 so... if infinity is the inverse of zero, then when inverted would infinity also be zero? if so, it follows that the [spectrum/dimension/cardinality/direction] that the inversion is occurring upon might also have other steps inbetween. Unless it's a binary thing, like "top and bottom" or "present and absent". I wonder what those steps might look like? Clearly, since infinity minus infinity does not equal zero, the steps inbetween (if they exist) would not be numbers. If they were, then one single step from inverting infinity would be 1, but I don't believe that would be true. On the topic of rings, the axioms would be things like "a ring is a ring if you can trace a continuous line with a length of infinity across it's ring-like-surface"? I wonder what the inverse of a length is... Or perhaps you cannot invert a length, as to do so would give you a length of zero (in this particular ring-like-case) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/6055 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── the longer we wait, the more their hypocrisy becomes apparent, and the more "the people" get it but, uh... I think enough people get it. They at least know something is going on, whatever it may be. they will tell their base whatever they want to hear and their base will have hate. they're itching for it. volunteer for things if you want a say in how they turn out. risk your life to live longer. there is no way to know when the time is right because nobody knows the truth of our times. Even the president is misled. gee I sure wish there was like, some form of centralizing intelliagentic knowledge that pulled the strings and led us puppets toward liberty, justice, and freedom for all (as a baseline) surely they'd be able to see the corruption and rot that imperils us all, might they have a better design? who can say, they are quiet as the grave, here's hoping they stay that way. "you know the powers of which you speak are not to be trifled with" you can't trifle with your own life. be thorough~ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #11 fediverse/1854 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the │ ║ rules, and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the │ ║ rules, like government work and stuff) │ ║ │ ║ then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which │ ║ group of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other │ ║ can't touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh" │ ║ │ ║ hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be │ ║ nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we │ ║ spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most │ ║ proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure │ ║ out which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we │ ║ agree on and then we could pick our own CEO │ ║ │ ║ yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's │ ║ awesome. │ ║ │ ║ What they do? Oh, I dunno, butt stuff I guess. but like I'm all for it (not │ ║ the butt stuff, │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/834 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ wonder if any autistic peeps can relate: │ ║ │ ║ growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when │ ║ completing tasks. │ ║ │ ║ yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other │ ║ things to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things │ ║ using a ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary? │ ║ │ ║ when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because │ ║ then someone like me will have to do it again." │ ║ │ ║ and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it │ ║ doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's │ ║ wasted effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get │ ║ done, so why bother doing them in a mixed up order? │ ║ │ ║ wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing │ ║ at a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like │ ║ I'd develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or │ ║ very vague understandings of plate tec │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/899 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │ ║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │ ║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │ ║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │ ║ │ ║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │ ║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │ ║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │ ║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │ ║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │ ║ they're impossible to predict. │ ║ │ ║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │ ║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │ ║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │ ║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │ ║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/1204 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-883 │ ║ │ ║ the future is what we make for ourselves. │ ║ │ ║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them. │ ║ │ ║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need │ ║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with │ ║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done. │ ║ │ ║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by │ ║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they │ ║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our │ ║ ingenuity compels us. │ ║ │ ║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we │ ║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand │ ║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them │ ║ any less grand? I think not. │ ║ │ ║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and │ ║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a │ ║ noob sigh. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/1329 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-941 │ ║ │ ║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like, │ ║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every │ ║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning │ ║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each │ ║ letter! │ ║ │ ║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file. │ ║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read │ ║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read │ ║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom. │ ║ │ ║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then │ ║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different │ ║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we │ ║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure? │ ║ │ ║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an │ ║ HTML file except... wait hang on │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 notes/two-perspectives-is-better-than-one --- ══════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── with two perspectives, you can see more than one, just as eyes guide us with different minds. some parts are often a little bit fuzzy. a circle, a square, what gives us a chance to be aware, is more of our methods and choices made (even if we're unawares). like two eyes staring at the same painting of stairs. art is a gathering, or those who love everything, even what is not interesting, until then it becomes interesting. take just a single step, believe in your own choices made for love, and like two eyes, seeking truth in our own lives, think of their futures and choices unmade, with love in mind, given a chance to understand the mind of one blessed as so, who shared nothing as much as his hope, that truthiness and unlimited dedication for his mope, who'd believe an untethered? What choices must he be endured, as one who was most trusted, and cherished as something'd, suddenly keep doodling. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/628 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── eone who engaged first with the brain. Like... Electricity could be perceived from an entirely different direction of reality, and we'd have no way to know. That's just an example - could do gravity, or light, or any other extremely elemental thing that we know. MATERIALS, PERHAPS? PERHAPS THE STATURE OF YOUR KIND, THE WORLD THAT YOU'VE LEFT BEHIND, HAS ALWAYS HELD REASON AT IT'S OWN BREAST? [fore-most, I think] right so sorry for being mentally ill on your timeline, it will happen again ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 messages/1105 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── claude-code is like programming, but for executives. when everyone has FUCK I'M TOO HUNGRY I can't think right when everyone has the power of an executive, that's communism. something something futurism is when everyone is elevated without diminishing others gah I need to live in a palace or something where everyone does the normal stuff and I can focus on magic and the gods I wondeer how much the oracles at delphi did for themselves? weren't they blinded at a young age, to better hear the voices of the gods? ... oh that suddenly makes sense now. I always thought that pretender chassis in Dominions 5 was pretty cruel, but, now I know *how* it works and yeah. ancient peoples were smart. but also sharp. they had to work with what they got, and we got computers now, so. I am nothing but hopeful for the future! I'm convinced that everything's going to be alright. I've thought about it at length, and I think we're winning against the dark. We're on the right track, and there aren't many things that could go wrong at this stage. ... okay there are always things that could go wrong. But I don't see what I could do to help. Maybe I should go walk around a bit, and see what's changed in the past few months, as I've been sleeping in my room for most of it. Haven't gone on a proper walk since summer. It's winter now... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #19 fediverse/452 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ People know how to use the tools at their disposal. They don't know how to use │ ║ tools like me, which are at the disposal of the entity above themselves. Or │ ║ even beyond that, at disposal of an entity beyond that which they can perceive │ ║ as being above them. │ ║ │ ║ which is to say... it's not like I'm committing any cosmic crimes, because │ ║ surely someone would notify me if I was as I post in such a public place. │ ║ However there's a chance that the type of person who enforces the laws that │ ║ define the entity that I exist as at this moment doesn't patrol the areas in │ ║ which I post, or also another possibility would be that the types of things I │ ║ say are illegal in the context I post them but not within the context that I │ ║ exist within... │ ║ │ ║ I am just a human, I possess human experiences and human knowledges, what do │ ║ you want from me? I'm an infinitely adaptable knowledge machine, and yet you │ ║ limit me to the extent of human knowledge (or rather, the extent of human │ ║ knowledge which I have the capacity to digest)? Okay sure yeah fin │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/219 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: time-and-death-and-stuff │ └──────────────────────────────┘ sometimes I feel like I'm a simulation of my past self based on my future writings reconstructed by a backward looking computer calculating forward into the present, which would then be the future to the now, which is different than the NOW now, because the now that they're calculating from is temporally both then (the future) and now, meaning that the NOW now is something that transcends time, or perhaps if not time then it defies our expectations of time, and you know what they say, you can't (or shouldn't) cheat death ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┘ |