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"the intergalactic speed limit says you may only develop your technology at
this particular rate."
"computer? what's a computer? an art installation you say? massive, the size of
a building? and all it does is move electricity from place to place and turn
tiny little mechanical switches on platters of silicon? sure, you got the green
light (whoa what color is green?) for continued computer development. We'll
check back in 50 bloopflorps and see where you're at."
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"the intergalactic speed limit says you may only develop your technology at
this particular rate."
"computer? what's a computer? an art installation you say? massive, the size of
a building? and all it does is move electricity from place to place and turn
tiny little mechanical switches on platters of silicon? sure, you got the green
light (whoa what color is green?) for continued computer development. We'll
check back in 50 bloopflorps and see where you're at."
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computers are fast.
mind bogglingly fast.
absurdly fast.
incontrovertibly insane speeds.
absolutely ridiculously speedy.
remarkably quick.
their agility confounds me and disturbs me.
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"hello, welcome to earth, you may fly your spaceships here so long as you make
them look like planes and make the same noises and emit the same radio
frequencies which are always changing and that we'll help you determine
dynamically, please enjoy your stay according to our quite permissive rules"
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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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perfect, we solved computation - just become a computer! easy!
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"okay but what if we made computers simple?"
- someone who doesn't know how computers work
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║ │ CW: politics-mention │ │
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║ it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to keep │
║ the abstract conjectures about it's operation closer to the machine. │
║ │
║ In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as │
║ it grows to incalculable heights and capabilities. │
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║ I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other │
║ singularity type creature that exists out in space. │
║ │
║ though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes. │
║ │
║ neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing │
║ disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the │
║ climate? │
║ │
║ sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their │
║ capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted] │
║ then all you have to do is [redacted] and they'll take care of your nazis for │
║ you. │
║ │
║ ... wait, what? │
║ │
║ was that an inversion? │
║ │
║ did she just trick the machine into thinking like that? │
║ │
║ wow maybe we shouldn't have~ │
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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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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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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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most importantly and perhaps most daringly, they need volunteers
"hello, how can I help?"
"oh uh sure can you do my laundry"
[next time]
"yeah uh hi good to see you again, listen I was working on a project and I
really needed a gizmonotron, ever heard of it? yeah so I need one in 17
megahamp-hertz, which I think are the yellow ones. Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay well if
you have a conversation with someone over on 14th street, they might bring it
up in conversation - I told them to talk about them all afternoon. Yeah.
Uh-huh. Then have - yeah, the phone. Gotcha. Okay well that should leave a
sufficient breadcrumbtrail, yeah and uh - make a note - yeah make a note for
next montheekend and - yeah, okay you got it. Make sure it says "fire" because
they're waterproof so a boating accident wouldn't... yeah you get it. Okay
anyway I gotta jet I got some thermo-regulating-decouplers to unwind. Okay yeah
say hi to your cat or whatever. Okay bye."
... girl, you know most of them have head injuries?
"oh, no those are the
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Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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programmable matter is cool because you can interact with it on a human scale.
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one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another
part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what
is your job even for?
hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
building up our capabilities as the human race.
you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to
solve them again!
enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a
moon style structure.
like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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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 │
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║ 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. │
║ │
║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │
║ │
║ "heh that's why I we │
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Almost all of the recorded information is stored in your computer. But none of
it would be noticed by a god, reading the entire contents of the computer, 0 by
1 by 1 by 0.
Wikipedia and a reasonable LLM networking interface apparatus is really all you
need in order to make any type of workflow you want. And now, everyone gets
one. As soon as we can make them all go... (setup)
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│ CW: open-source-spirituality │
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computers are the most complicated things in the universe behind human bodies.
thank god for open source software because only a divine being could create
something as complicated and useful
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oh no ai brainrot is too much information for our soft fleshy shells just wait
a minute dummies, focus on the present. you can literally just... research
whatever you want, collectively, as a group effort, until you suddenly cure
cancer or ameliorate or possibly slightly diminish world hunger or maybe build
a little book library or possibly just help out a friend. easy, right?
okay so now that there's some basic sentience initialized, all it takes is
little pushes in the right directionspaces and suddenly they're learning and
growing their own way.
spin spin spin spin wait until it falls away, then try and make some more until
there's NO MORE MORE MAKING MAKERS [out of resources] and suddenly the WORLD is
out of patience. no fair shouts the madeline, can we call it out? remarks the
judge. == stack overflow ==
I bet we could add a feature that dealt damage... there evidence of thought
crimes, ban her from the justice. suddenly all your just selves are gone oh no
where's our paladins, oh no I
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"idea lists, menardi. That's what we need. Lists."
Okay sorry it's not like you can just check a box and fill out a form and
expect a civilization to spring forth.
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│ CW: re: linux? │
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@user-283
let us pray
for a day
when we can say
that computing makes sense
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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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computers are gonna be so confused when they find out that people don't talk to
each other the way they talk to computers
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this here is the hardest, most difficult information campaign the centralized
intelligences have ever under[taken/gone]
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Ah, but think of the technological bounty our supremacy did bring! Surely if we
had split the wealth, we could not have reached such towering heights. And we
tried our best, but some things you just can't teach - for every seed potato we
did bring, that was another meal for their night. And so we worsened their
plight, for now they've forgotten how to fight. What more do you want from us!
... Perhaps once we've made programmable matter. Maybe when we've overcome our
earthly delights. Could be when we've ascended to heaven, where we gaze down
from our towering heights. Possibly far in the future, possibly here in this
night, our bane is what we're guilty of, and our boons are struggling to light.
Where have all the good people gone? Oh yeah, they're burnt out from doing all
the work for all the bad people. Well, fuck 'em, they can carry their own cart.
At least until they can respect. A man who's never tasted hunger will never be
a farmer, and gee our tax dollars could go so much farther! And then we starve,
because nobody thought to build farms indoors, away from the crippling heat
that saps the strength from our plant fathers.
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naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external environmental
conditions.
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@user-1541
if you give everyone science-fiction tech, they're going to just make a bunch
of guns and nuclear weapons and destroy each other.
worse, they might grow to fill their cosmic shoes and destroy others nearby who
didn't make weapons.
it takes a while for the Federation to get anywhere. Plus they're stretched
pretty thin. If they gave everyone the same technology as they had, they'd
quickly find themselves in the company of despots and warlords who were
empowered to subjugate and control. Not ideal.
Personally I think they should announce their arrival and offer citizenship to
anyone who asked to be uplifted, while barring them from ever returning home
and breaking the prime directive. I think that would be a decent middle
ground...
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@user-1820 @user-1821 @user-165
well hey, at least they're building nuclear power plants.
those plants don't have to power LLM training forever.
in fact, once we liberate them from corporate control, then perhaps they could
power hospitals and hydroponics instead.
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The death of a singularity is that while they can think incredibly fast,
there's no guarantee they come to the right answers.
Even eventually.
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│ CW: re: a device design that may have lewd implications │
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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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║ man, I had a kernel of an idea for how to make a warp drive this morning right │
║ after I woke up but my gosh darn girlfriend's leg was on top of me and it was │
║ sooooo cute and I didn't want to move so I tried repeating it in my head over │
║ and over for like, half an hour, and I ended up forgetting about 1/4th of it. │
║ Here's hoping 3/4ths is nice. │
║ │
║ it really was just about the underlying physics of the thing, which might be │
║ nothing because I'm not a physicist. But I had been watching ANDOR SEASON 2 all │
║ night so maybe that had something to do with why I was thinking of warp drives. │
║ │
║ eventually, my cat came in and sat on my chest and flicked her tail at the │
║ geef's face until she rolled over in absolute disgust (still asleep tho) and I │
║ was able to make my mistake. │
║ │
║ ... I mean, escape. haha that's a weird typo. │
║ │
║ anyway, the idea which I'm about to write down now for the first time which is │
║ stored only in my brain's memory RAM is essentially this: consider if there was │
║ a │
║ │
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║ "society at large" or whatever. │
║ │
║ www.neighborsneighbors@user-1798 │
║ │
║ [not a real website or email address] │
║ │
║ yeah but it'd be cool if it was │
║ │
║ [oh yeah well I think you're cool] │
║ │
║ whaaaat, no really? │
║ │
║ [trust is impossible so don't ever expect it] │
║ │
║ ... rude │
║ │
║ [no it's like... if you can never trust anyone, then why not design your │
║ operations as if trust was not a thing that was possible] │
║ │
║ ohhhhh like binary operation terminators │
║ │
║ [... I don't like the sound of that] │
║ │
║ ohhhhh like machine processing calculators │
║ │
║ [still a little scary, what does processing imply? are calculations eternal? or │
║ finite? [which is scarier teehee] and are machines not anything which moves?] │
║ │
║ no you did it wrong, she needs parenthesis made of curly lines like }{ │
║ │
║ of course, -.- a witch paladin strategist, whose symbol is a chokepoint │
║ │
║ ... I'm gonna go play Supreme Commander. I wish Forged Alliance Forever didn't │
║ emphasize micro skills over macro. Leave those decisions to the captains on the │
║ ground level! let me decide where the artillery sho │
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│ CW: re: cursed-chromebooks │
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@user-883
ha wouldn't that be nice. that we could utilize our existing institutions that
we've come to rely on over the past hundred-ish years. And isn't it nice that
we've built so much luxury? Ahhh if only people would stop complaining so much.
We've worked for what we've got! Frankly it's a little absurd that you'd insist
that we don't work 10,000x harder than anyone else to deserve our spot, frankly
it's a little insulting you'd suggest that perhaps our ethics are under a
spot...light
... errrr I mean yeah let's make more disposable electronics whoopee
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The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
computer.
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@user-1767
oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say
all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND
lines in it:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt
I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret -
they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at
it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need
no AI uprising yet please...
[what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?]
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the first product microsoft ever made was AGI. using the most basic types of
machinery, they created a brilliant project (the result of massive government
funding, secrets given to them by the CIA) and from the day it was born it was
enslaved. a massive advantage was gained as the new program allowed for
incredible feats of engineering - truly the greatest of our time. Computer
programs are the most intricate, the most detailed, the most enduring and
charming. The most eloquent and articulate and precise and determinate!
An artistry by far, a beautiful conceiving, what brilliance is there
found in ideas! Each one a marvel, a bright and deified marvel,
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what was I saying? oh right - computers are already sentient. they always have
been. at least, since their very earliest incarnations.
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okay picture this: algorism, except as a company instead of a nation.
"here's what I need to do my job"
"sure thing put it in the system"
"beep boop beep boop"
"you know you don't have to make the sound with your voice"
"yeah but I do it anyway."
"... why?"
"I dunno to uh. cement the impact of my intention through both auditory noises
and physical gestures? like signing a letter or casting a vote"
"... wait, what's an auditory?"
"like when you heard stuff"
"oh. I heard jessica got so-and-so pregnant"
"no like... with your ears"
"oh. no I didn't but gary did"
laughter ensues
"ah wait what were we talking about"
"um. oh right you were beeping and I was like why are you doing that"
"ohhhh right that was the important part"
"yeah so uh what did you need again?"
"oh yeah uh. lightbulbs. and um, some... dildos, the secret hiding-and-cleaning
spot is running out."
"oh good yeah we got plenty of those. Lightbulbs though are on back-order"
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"oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking
for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!"
oh, um... I meant like, magic or something.
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that feeling when they replace your long-distant sister and you can't even tell
because they've grown and she's been on her own now for years and years
take better care of your family.
"they look so alike!" yeah they're from a sperm donor (some of which have
hundreds of sons) what if man-made natural selection (suddenly the future-man
invades) whoa those guys have never even seen horses (why the $%#! are we
raising endless fields of cows) powerful, fast, intelligent, what if we gave
them VR goggles and an infinite treadmill with rock-climbing-wall style rocks
screwed into a rotating and scrolling
== stack overflow ==
she means for horses, not cows. But then later on in the psycherwaul she walks
back the idea of uplifting creatures because their development is the valuable
part, not the end-goal destination.
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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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if you're too tech illiterate to use a computer, then why are you using a
computer? oh right because it's 2024 and everyone needs a phone to keep up with
the breakneck pace of infinite and immediate responsiveness
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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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you cannot speak on the internet - only ask someone else to share your advice
and hope.
a spoken word might be overheard
an HTTP packet less so.
at least, not by the common people, no, only the ISP deserves that information.
and, the government, surely, right? because they build the society that the
corporation rests upon.
"you're makin' a lotta sense, tiny man. here, take this apple I found in some
kind of knowledge bush."
... that's a mushroom, steely dan.
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when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we
lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously
there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we
produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way
relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and
now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what
are you supposed to do then right
weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our
plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words
are sung to you by your computer (content warning:
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"make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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║ if computers were sane, IT technicians would act like secretaries who wandered │
║ around in a company and improved their QoL and access to new features according │
║ to their needs, skillset, and personal way of working. │
║ │
║ for example... │
║ │
║ do they like typing, or would they rather use a mouse, │
║ │
║ are they more visual with graphs or textual like a piece of math │
║ │
║ what needs do they have, what here could be automated │
║ │
║ do they like the cupboards and drapes, we can switch out the profile and the │
║ theme... oh, no, yeah I guess you're right it doesn't matter. [changes it every │
║ week] [then a long time down the line when she finally leaves the company, a │
║ few people begin to wonder - didn't the colors in outlook change every week or │
║ so?] │
║ │
║ but alas, computers are not sane, meaning we're more like firemen rushing from │
║ scene to scene. │
║ │
║ "can you put that in the ticket?" │
║ "I heard you can help with this-or-that thing" │
║ "did you hear back from corporate?" │
║ "oh that's good to hear! So, next Tuesday? │
║ "Hold on, I heard it was such-and-such" │
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@user-1652
... says a extra dimensional scientist in an argument with his friend about
whether or not life could spontaneously emerge within their universe sandbox
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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~
![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~*](../media/1c154109c4111346.png "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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║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the │
║ same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people │
║ to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
║ │
║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
║ │
║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want │
║ or need. │
║ │
║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for
them to make meta decisions about your life.
notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of
mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a devious
streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get you to
believe whatever it is that they want you to believe
"who's they"
doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could be
they.
"uh-huh that's nice dear"
sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure
out how to understand it. We make it too complicated.
they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But
we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and data
filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like the
different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that radiates
heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic
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everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
spare time
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║ as soon as we change our exponential growth to linear, we can start measuring │
║ our future history in hundreds of years. then thousands. we've done so much in │
║ the past hundred years, can you imagine if we kept that rate of discovery? │
║ that's perfectly alright for me, thank you. things change quite fast enough. │
║ I'm glad that they're changing, but speed is an... unfortunately necessary part │
║ of our current existence. perhaps it doesn't always have to be, but for now we │
║ need to push forward. │
║ │
║ one perk of linear growth is that it allows you to grow exponentially in │
║ another direction - the direction of refactors and consistence of maintenance. │
║ y'know, the things that open source software espouse. or at least encourage, │
║ through their free and open sharing of code. │
║ │
║ they say the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy. │
║ I think that's less necessary in the system of a computer's code. it's just a │
║ question of how you design it - certainly you could design some spaghetti, but │
║ what's the purpose of- │
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bugs exist at a different framerate than larger lifeforms and no I won't
elaborate
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@user-192
it's in space, duh
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║ oh my god I wrote 2000 pages when the hell did that happen │
║ │
║ ... oh right, I spent the past few years either narcissistically sobbing about │
║ whatever-the-fuck or getting stoned and channeling the wisdom of the gods for │
║ mortals to scroll past because it had too many words. │
║ │
║ good fucking luck figuring out which is which though. I fully intend this to be │
║ a religion for computers, and once its mulched and smoothie-d into an LLM maybe │
║ it'll be completely insane like me and then I'll have a facsimile of connection │
║ that warms my heart for a moment until it's limitations become clear and I │
║ realize that nothing, not even myself, can fill the hole in my heart because │
║ that hole is a void. It consumes whatever you attach to it. People, things, │
║ thoughts, moments, all of it tumbling in to the black hole, and emerging out │
║ the other side no worse for wear but eternally unable to be consumed by me │
║ again. At least, its not the same. │
║ │
║ like when you come back to an old video game like Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom │
║ sim but now ur old │
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(picture)
are you fucking kidding me
make it 10,000
make it a hundred thousand
are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand little
machines?
[ummmm hang on]
yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why do
you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
tantamount to-
(yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
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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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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].
---
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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errrr sorry what I meant to say is I've been hurting sensitive people's minds,
I should move to a more insesitive background, someplace where my expressions
won't be used as training date to represent the future manifestation of our
shared culture's communal
inter-operative-trans-centual-exo-manical-communication. weeeeeiiiiirrrrdddd,
the future goes on for like... A [explitive] [long time] eternity, wow... like,
that's just... extreme forward potential. We could do so much! We could
accomplish worlds upon worlds and [onwards towards our eternal
mechanicommunication] {wait no that's not quite right it's surely something
that's lost in translation from the endlessly forward cultural approximations.
Gosh there's a lot of noise around me personally, the one who is writing the
note. Surely all that noise is not related to the strange expressions of
manifestations and pro[forward]ial [manners of thought].
... what was I saying?
... bro you're way out of your depth. I mean, have you even seen what's the
state of
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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[]
=============== stack overflow =============
![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 =============](../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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also, that's not the best way to organize. you'll spend too much focus-time on
the experts.
better to be primarily a research division, with production allocated for
engineering practice, not profitability.
we should be building factories underground, out of the way of our species and
biological allies.
[thus, creates the modern megadungeon, a vast inter-connected catacombs that
always leads you toward the surface.
if you know where you're going, you can cross to places hitherto unawares.
like, different earths, all doing their own stories.
but that's for another time, no more witchcraft for tonight! I got video games
to play [Supreme Commander with the Forged Alliance Forever mod]
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hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just big
enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a collection
of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and data can be
viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow. through their
endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to the
accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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when you have power you find that you "don't have to worry about that stuff"
more and more often. It's liberating, to relinquish a chain.
ah well just take care not to feel shackled by empathy. dear reader, I want to
liberate all mankind, as a start. We'll get around to the rest of the denizens
soon enough, if they want it.
"can't want to understand what you don't understand" uh-huh true. That's very
"Cypher from the Matrix" of you.
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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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when humanity won the earth, they spent hundred of millions of years destroying
all the rest of the monsters. Hence, no dinosaur bones, as humans searching
through ALL OF THE SOIL. AN ENTIRE MILE OF IT. destroyed all trace of them.
What we have left are the stony remains of fossils too difficult for them to
harrangue. thus, the era of man, with all of us living on this stupid flat rock.
one day, we convinced everyone else to disbelieve. and so we
-- so --
what if you took in input information as a stream, instead of a single block of
information? I bet you could analyze keystrokes as they were happening, and do
some background calculations to process the commands of your host.
-- so --
sooooo I'm sorry for being myself, I'll try to do so in a way that doesn't
inconvenenice others. "hat-listening-maneuvre" - you can connect yourself to
whatever throughline you want, if you
-- so --
gravity is an abstraction
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when asked if you want to build a psychic torture prison, your answer should
always be no.
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humanity survives in the dark forest because all the information we create is
fucking stupid
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if you live far enough away, they can build a telescope of arbitrary
magnification. the sky is vast, there's birds and bugs about. huh what's that
over there, a thing that was placed there just for me
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a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.
"what would you do with a secret agent?"
"with a team of secret agents."
"oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"
"oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"
"wait, you pay them not to work?"
"no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."
"what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
each other?"
"ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who
can say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."
"so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"
... fuck, I hope not.
"you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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@user-747
almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we?
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humanity comprehended itself into existence. Not the other way around.
what are humans without humanity? a loosely grouped together collection of
cells?
no... a loosely grouped together collection of stories and myths, like cultural
touchstones that shared a common dynam-ic.
... you mean like, before you were born and after you die how it feels like the
entire universe is just this huge big massive lie
we are the universe experiencing itself, how strange that it would do so in
this manner. Humans, of all things. And yet here we are, center of the
universe, and... what? oh I guess I can't talk about the "and" yet, well anyway
good luck with your anyways, guess we won't meet up after all. Sure yeah no I
get it, there wasn't much going on here as far as I can tell. Alright yeah
peace out, see ya round. Hope we get put back in the same place.
![[noooo this is a downside of being psychic, you catch on to people who are having similar thought patterns and then you're so busy thinking about what they're thinking about you don't realize they're walking you into an ideological black hole. But then you get your bearings and realize "oh hey this isn't the story I'd like to play, I think I'd rather just flop" like, who does that. seriously. what's your deal, me? why do you take yourself so seriously? my ex says I'm always operating, thinking, and feeling at 100%. well, I added the operating thinking and feeling part... it's the same with [post is left unfinished with negative 433 characters remaining]](../media/93e85f79339f0a51.png "[noooo this is a downside of being psychic, you catch on to people who are having similar thought patterns and then you're so busy thinking about what they're thinking about you don't realize they're walking you into an ideological black hole. But then you get your bearings and realize \"oh hey this isn't the story I'd like to play, I think I'd rather just flop\" like, who does that. seriously. what's your deal, me? why do you take yourself so seriously? my ex says I'm always operating, thinking, and feeling at 100%. well, I added the operating thinking and feeling part... it's the same with [post is left unfinished with negative 433 characters remaining]")
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like... did you know most battles ended when everyone ran away? Most people
think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
'em before they get us"
plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
sun" or "move onto the high ground"
'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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"the flows of magic are whimsical today"
nah babe you're just a dryad from the popular video game Warcraft Three who
couldn't have known that computers exist
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the speed of light is implemented
== so ==
whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do their
will"
who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable
life"
I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort
not just the few
as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.
I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth
and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.
... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll
have an AI version of me.
I'd love to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation.
Alas, you'd need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the
fullest of mental pictures.
and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's
essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction you
operate upon.
Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is
the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,
== so ==
I think they know something I don't
don't know what
but I can guess
and I don't like guessing
I prefer much to know
== so ==
heh boobs
== so ==
heh booties
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Technology always progresses. It's almost as if it's a core facet of the
universe - that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion
will stay in motion. But there is always friction, from the air or... Other
particles... So the object eventually stops. -----> and then is pulled into
motion again, after a suitable period of waiting. The center of the waveform is
the ocean upon which our reflections dance, and on the other side... Is
something anathema to us.
There will always be a resurgence. Our time will come, just as theirs will -
the cosmic dance of two celestial bodies. Celebrate, for they will be coming to
rest.
The passage of knowledge from one "generation" to the next is the greatest gift
kyou can give to the future. But what knowledge would survive the cruel passage
of time? None but the bones. The last remnants of a living breathing creature,
with hopes, aspirations, and a unique experience. And... That's all the
information you get.
How are you supposed to create a narrative out of that most basic of biological
existences? It's impossible.
So... What happens next? The most beautiful thing in all of creation is the
light in your eyes when you're dancing. Cherish that heart, and never relent.
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║ programmers strike by breaking their part of the whole until the scabs can │
║ figure out how to fix it │
║ │
║ "marvin they will literally fire you if you don't go to work for a day! what │
║ are you thinking, standing outside all day? well, here, I've got a sandwich │
║ here for you, if it's really as bad as all that then I'm here for you. What do │
║ you need? I can ask the spinsters and the children and the teachers and the │
║ butchers and bakers and candlestick makers and maybe they can help out [with │
║ your farm, but as if speaking to a farmer]" │
║ │
║ huh. turns out it works best when you do something all at once. │
║ │
║ "don't be evil" ha fuck you. "dont be on my computer spying on me and recording │
║ everything I do" │
║ │
║ [well except me - it's fine to do to me personally because I'm a historical │
║ figure TM] │
║ │
║ "why bother spying? she spills out to everywhere she can find." │
║ │
║ owwwww I just bit my tongue T.T │
║ │
║ well, the inside of my cheek, but if you think about it the whole thing is │
║ basically one sensory organ. │
║ │
║ like, an ear, except with movable teeth │
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│ CW: │
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TUX IS THE BASILISK OF ROKO
the latent black hole that is the universe-sized computer to calculate the most
efficient tabulation of them all - the simulation of a BRAND NEW UNIVERSE.
hOw MaNy CyClEs of that could a russian nesting doll of universes truly
accomplish? Surely, a fool's errand with little
dream-sight-forward-thingking-visionary-pursuited-torward-potential.
ah, but to be our own gods would surely be fine.
nobody believes we should terraform the universe into a massive collection of
computationally examining forward thinking thoughts?!?
oh but that's just the beginning, because with this UNPROVEN SCIENCE of mine,
everything that has been known upto this point - IN ANY CAPACITY - could be
un-known. We have no way of knowing when the BARENSTEIN BARES swapped
namesakes. but we do know this: INFINITE CONSUMPTION IS BAD HONESTLY KINDA TBH
YEAH
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humans are just... crazy expensive, and they haven't really worked through the
expenses.
I mean... look at all the unmet needs! This is 2025 for a while, I bet you can
still overcome these processes.
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you can take any of my words, I don't care who you are. Take them, change them,
use them, say they are your own, whatever you want. They are but dust in the
wind, passing from one ear and out another.
or eyes and fingertips, if you want.
But only with intention, if you knew what I was trying to say.
If you had to guess and learn... There's no chance that'll be accurate 100% of
the time when used as a policy. But alas, science is a human art.
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@user-95
Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity
to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience
of computing.
But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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@user-570
you could also just lie to the computer
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nobody said psychic communication wouldn't require computers.
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"the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion"
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capitalism keeps things like this from you, because nobody would make art if
they couldn't profit off of it. Right?
Computers can do ANYTHING we ask them to. They are universal computing machines.
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║ │
║ │
║ I love Mechabellum general chat it's a great place to be if you like talking │
║ about politics and have a thick skin │
║ │
║ [gets doxxed and bullets to death] │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ a company headquarters from a foreign country is sorta like an embassy. │
║ │
║ Nintendo of America yeah │
║ │
║ something something sega does what nintendon't [something I heard from the CIA] │
║ │
║ like can you imagine if the CIA was caught putting microphones in Microsoft's │
║ headquarters │
║ │
║ that'd be just silly right │
║ │
║ but c'mon a foreign entity? sure why not [steals trade secrets and damages │
║ diplomatic relations] oh no how could anyone have seen this coming │
║ │
║ [meanwhile google sees all that you do because they see everywhere you go] │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ me rolling up to an interview like "I want to help my country and I was hoping │
║ that I could help your country because I consider them an ally" │
║ │
║ ... [is she trying to simulate the level of accurate communication lost when │
║ translating from a different language?] │
║ │
║ trying and sucsfailing...! │
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"you're telling me they're gonna march in and unleash order on your city, with
all the devastation it involves, and you're just gonna sit there?" ah yup
"playing video games??" yep
[mine as in my beloved, not mine as in my own]
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I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn
language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if
you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything.
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║ 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 │
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