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 "I noticed that your program is spinning up a crypto generator to run in the
 background for 1 second every 10 seconds, did you know that?" said no llm ever
 "I read through every single file in your project and I think I have a pretty
 good picture. This is a keylogger app wrapped around an HTML web server that
 displays pictures of cats alongside inspirational phrases and motivational
 artwork." said no llm ever
 "This is very inspirational stuff! your recipe generation program knows just
 how to send encrypted text files to remote servers. I love the part where it
 combines ingredients like tomato soup, cheese, and breadcrumbs into encryption
 seeds that are applied to password files and raw browser history records
 before being mailed to the user who requested a recipe. Potential improvements
 include adding a method for selecting a new recipient aside from the hardcoded
 IP address in Somalia. Would you like me to implement an HTML dashboard that
 lets you select a random IP address from a specific country of origin?" said
 no llm ever
 
 "what are you talking about you use claude-code every day, and that's an LLM"
 yeah... I guess I'm not actually concerned, and I see the beauty of the
 technology that everyone's been primed to hate because it works against them
 as it's wielded by the massive corporations who can restrict access to it to
 only those who can afford 20$ per month or whatever. I see the promise, it's
 there, and every year we're getting closer, but frankly I don't think the
 wounds caused by the cultural resistance backlash movement will heal quickly,
 or ever. Maybe that's the point.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 notes/omegle-for-irc ---
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 I wonder if anyone's made "Omegle for IRC"? Like, 5 people get thrown in a room
 together for as long as they want - they can chat through text or whatever and
 like it doesn't matter, who cares, because in ~10 minutes nobody will care what
 you said
 
 I feel like a lot of people would express their true feelings. The people 
 running the service could set it up so that a personality profile is set up 
 (all locally, never seen by the company) and sent to the user through email. It
 would highlight potential weaknesses and give you ideas for how to improve.
 Sorta like, weaponized spying software that works FOR the user instead of
 against.
 
 It could also be used as sort of a... digital profile that would interface
 with
 other applications. All locally, of course. ~~They could transmit to one
 another
 through open sourced and industry standard protocols, and frankly each
 interaction could use a *different* protocol. So like, you don't know whether 
 some packets are encoded in one way or another. They're also encrypted, so
 it's
 like... twice as unlikely that you'll hack their bits or w/e.~~ dead end, sorry
 -> here's the real continuation: All locally, of course. Your "profile"
 would
 essentially be the best approximation of your personality, passed through a 
 large language model that is trained on EVERYONE's data. The inner workings of 
 an LLM are NOT understood by humanity, and I believe that's all that's
 necessary
 for some semblance of artificiality. Errr I mean Synthetic Intelligence. The
 reason why is that each individual user, the conversation partner, is a person 
 living their life. Every digital thing they interact with, even CAMERAS and
 MICROPHONES on PHONES would essentially be like... data gathering for the
 algorithm (Again, I want to stress, the algorithm that nobody *can*
 understand.)
 
 Idk. AI is a blackbox. I think that's okay. I think that running things
 locally
 is important, at least until everyone's forgotten how to design AIs...
 
 The framework that these programs
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--- #2 fediverse/899 ---
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║ 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               │
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 @user-1461 
 
 my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody
 will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody
 interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level.
 Beginner programmer.
 
 ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year
 with someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who deserved 120,000$ per year.
 
 I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with
 as much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me,
 which would feel... quite defeating
 
 who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time
 in hardware taught me that I'm fragile and can't work too much. Like a scalpel
 that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no practice... Is
 that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it.
 Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. Picturing
 structures.
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 the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to
 make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that
 you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning
 something new halfway through a project
 
 the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as
 a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can
 paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such
 that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you
 might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow --
 [because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means
 you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it
 means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl
 ov
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--- #5 fediverse/6144 ---
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║ what if every word I ever said online was searchable by database style           │
║ uploading and linking?                                                           │
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║ ... er, what if I made a neocities page that was algorithmically generated and   │
║ sorted each of my posts by LLM statistically derived similarity to each post     │
║ that the user clicked on? essentially, "here's the closest sounding or feeling   │
║ related posts" but in plain HTML cached and pre-rendered rainbow table style.    │
║                                                                                  │
║ could run a waterfall style top-down data processing script on it once, then     │
║ you'd have the HTML files generated. If you added new poems you'd have to scan   │
║ through it again, but it shouldn't take long with a decent embedding model       │
║ (note: not english, but trained on statistics only)                              │
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║ ah, that sounds pretty fiddly, I think I'll ask an LLM to write it for me. As    │
║ long as I have the intention in mind, it's basically just like writing a         │
║ letter to a friend and asking them to build it for you, right? I don't mind      │
║ writing the documentation, so long as it's okay if it's in prose. You can make   │
║ a copy and rewrite for me                                                        │
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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--- #7 fediverse/4596 ---
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 @user-1707 
 
 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
 but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
 raspberry pi's except risc-v
 
 also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
 and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
 translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
 jpeg compression but for text.
 
 Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
 part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
 utilities like that for connectivity.
 
 oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
 we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
 
 anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
 about it. I might even be able to pay you.
 
 (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
 encrypted, etc etc)
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 software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
 
 for adding security improvements and whatnot
 
 then people wouldn't complain about updates
 
 because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
 their differences (of opinion and such))
 
 I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
 oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
 differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
 
 uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
 fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
 
 the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
 corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
 all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
 room to do, and the whole
 
 -- stack overflow --
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║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to     │
║ do so too                                                                        │
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║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host    │
║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord   │
║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with      │
║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon      │
║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can       │
║ keep tabs on all that you do.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure       │
║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could   │
║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific,            │
║ alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature.   │
║ That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT.  │
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 if you're afraid of the AI bubble popping, one way to avoid it is to pop it
 ourselves. If we build AI technology that eclipses the entire software
 development ecosystem, companies might start to be valued based on the value
 of the employees they've managed to collect. Not fame and fortune, but by
 those that can build the best applications, on demand[, for free. paid for by
 nationalized taxes.].
 
 the companies that can hold onto the best engineers, those that know how
 computers work and can know how they function, can leverage their human
 capital to achieve great means. essentially, inversing the power dynamic,
 where workers are favored for their plenty and not for their worth.
 
 let the code monkeys tend to their gardens and work their sawmills. We all
 know they'd rather be teaching kids about plants or playing cards at the
 grocery. Let the computer nerds, the ones who are really into it, let them
 make what they feel is worth it for it [the computer].
 
 this will have massive effects on the economy, and none of it will be
 reflected in new jobs. But we'll all be happier, and we'll all find less
 stress in our [confines/compromises].
 
 But it's gotta work, first. And it's gotta be locally spendable. If they wanna
 put a data server in the library, why not let them fund it themselves? They
 could run powerful statistical models that output useful statistics arranged
 in human readable and not very statistical ways, and that's a pretty neat
 infinite information machine to have at your disposal as a library. It could
 even cite sources (and validate!!) them for students or returning listeners.
 Plus, if nobody's using it, it could work through the backlog of user requests
 and act as a "slow" or "unexpected deliver times" style queue for their LLM
 requests - average wait time less than 1/5th of a minute.
 
 for something that can program an entire computer for you, from scratch. If
 you can describe it, it can make it, so long as you're willing to test out all
 of it's hacks.
 
 I bet we could make one for less than 20,000$. Might need some new chip
 foundries, might need to forge some new trade deals, let's let both of our
 wing-arms decide.
 
 the value of one currency compared to the other should be a measure of how
 valuable the goods that country exports are. And yet, it's more often a matter
 of distribution, as we all visit our local bazaars. What happens when that's
 all digital?
 
 if nobody's a shining city on a hill, then there's no nuclear war. Who would
 nuke Somalia? Nigeria? Botswana? Idaho?
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 AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of
 their own
 
 i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something.
 it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s
 slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody
 needs a chatbot...
 
 then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a
 corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete.
 
 and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it)
 
 like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could
 be.
 
 there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process
 ANYTHING.
 
 well, anything that's been performed before.
 
 there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've
 learned. and -- stack overflow --
 
 alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be
 described one-by-one (to paint a picture)
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║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in           │
║ addition to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden   │
║ name. All you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something          │
║ different than Q"                                                                │
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║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public    │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had        │
║ never told you I knew where you lived?                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things    │
║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an       │
║ election year, just saying)                                                      │
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║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for         │
║                                                                                  │
║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside)    │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural,     │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder     │
║ and hum calming music to                                                         │
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 why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance
 it wants?
 
 ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
 "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
 it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
 you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message.
 Then it would just... do it
 
 l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
 
 but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
 solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
 
 ... yet...
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║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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║ an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social    │
║ media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this     │
║ week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean,     │
║ it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who     │
║ can talk! It loves you soooooooo much.                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally   │
║ don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the    │
║ meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the                  │
║ [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output)                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose       │
║ stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training   │
║ data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can        │
║ change a person, as they share their moments sublime.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data       │
║ that was produced on one computer and duplicated.                                │
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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.                                                                            │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry"                                                     │
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 I want computer scientists to do computer science, and let the marketing
 people figure out how to sell it.
 
 "save us from computers, senpai"
 
 sure kid here's a google with computer program on it
 
 "yeeeee now I can party with my homeboys on the west side of the lake at 5"
 
 pat pat there's a good thing, yes you are, sooooooo good you're such a so good
 thing, yes you are whoa what a good such a good thing, yes you are
 
 ... um, that was weird, anyway as I was saying, lots of people getting thrown
 off the tech industry right about nowaboutsince. wonder if they might want to
 do some of the stuff they initially pursued the field by being trained in.
 probably would, and we could probably break problems down into academic
 solutions, which we could use to address any issuehappenstance which might
 form.
 
 [instant techno-bureaucracy, as all the power is in computers. these days. I
 mean have you seen a data c3nter's power bill these days? jeezzzz]
 
 ... as I was saying, what if we did science and they envisioned products

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 I feel like the IT people who work at schools should be the ones who teach 
 classes on computer science. I'd much rather have a class taught by a sysadmin 
 than a teacher who can barely teach them excel and garageband. I mean c'mon 
 computers are the future idk why we don't get that yet. Kids need to know this
 stuff. It's not like it's super complicated and difficult, you just have to
 think about it a certain way. Once that "clicks" you have a lifetime to learn 
 about how wonderful they are. Everyone in IT has that moment, for me it was 
 installing (and then subsequently modding) video games. Sometimes I spent more
 time tweaking my system than I did actually playing games - and the kinds of 
 games I preferred were the ones that relied less on agility and were more 
 mental. Strategy games are what inspired me because I could think about them - 
 and that felt somehow more useful. Like I was learning. When I would learn 
 fighting games or FPSs I felt like I was learning a skill, like how to use a
 hammer or how to ride a bike. And idk, I felt like video games could never
 match
 reality. Like "oh boy imma push the B button to swing this sword" versus "hey 
 look at me I'm swinging this stick just like a sword and imagining so hard that
 I can picture it" - but with strategy games, you never really found 
 opportunities to practice that kind of skill. Like how often are you in a 
 situation that demands mental performance? We've sorta optimized our society 
 away from that, and toward a more passive stressed out compliance. like... 
 climate change is a thing, and nobody's doing anything about it? We're still 
 pushing down the levers that cause greenhouse gas emissions to go up? Like
 c'mon
 what's our plan. I think people who guide massive oil companies and such
 should
 be replaced if they're intentionally guiding the ship toward destruction. Like
 that's just dereliction of duty I tell ya. Oh, what's that? They're compelled
 to
 maximize profit by the contracts and restrictions of their share--holders? I 
 mean c'mon it's well past time for that. And what's all this about inequality? 
 Jeez and racism and homophobia and forced contribution - man people really put
 up with a lot of shit. Kinda makes me feel like we should make solving those 
 problems our highest priority? So we can move forward as a species? Like who
 cares about all that other shit. None of it matters. Like, what's even the
 point. We're all just "here", in the now, and what can we do but respect it? 
 It's our duty and our diligence to protect the present, as citizens of the 
 temporal experience of earth. Honestly, if the earth was alive would you be
 fine
 if it died? I can't believe that. It's well past our due date. Just get it over
 with. Maybe it'll be hard for a couple years, but you have the technology now
 to
 completely dominate the earth. No animal besides man proves any threat to man, 
 and we're telling you - you can - and that's something that you gotta remember.
 
 ...
 
 I hear it in the birdsong. I hear it in the air - it rumbles as cries at me
 from
 across and just over there. I hear in it's whispers, in it's most gallant of
 confells (?) (confused scrambling? it's talking about a car crash)
 
 Outside of my window there's a highway. Just on the other side of a concrete
 partition. Between me and the partition there is a lake, with trees and flowers
 and an island where people can picnic or have a barbeque. Around this path
 there
 are walkways, and arranged just so - the trees that have grown here are taller
 than the homes.
 
 I live on the third story.
 
 I absolutely love it. It feels like a treehouse.
 
 But my apartment is near a curve in the highway. It isn't much, nothing out of
 the ordinary, but even still there are slightly more crashes there than in
 other
 parts of the highway. Statistically.
 
 I hear sirens every day
 
 I also live right next to a fire-station. Well, it's on the same block. But
 even
 still it's a very interesting neighborhood. There's shops and food just across
 the highway, and closer to home there's a small section that has cheaper
 options. As a perpetual college student, I appreciate that.
 
 But... I've never really gone and used it? I dunno, spending money at a
 restaurant just didn't seem like a good use of my money. I only have so much of
 it you know. I'd love to be fed but I can't afford it - I wish I could.
 
 I still eat well, I mean I'm not starving over here. I know I've lost weight,
 but I dunno I just forget to eat. It's like... not that big of a deal for me. 
 whatever right?
 
 ...
 
 the birds talk about me behind my back. They think I can't understand them but
 sometimes I can. If I listen. But I dunno it takes a lot of effort. It's...
 sorta like understanding what R2-D2 is saying. Or interpreting the meows of a
 cat.
 
 They know me as the witch. I'm not very good yet, and they know that. But they
 know what to expect. /shrug
 
 I've been working on a video game recently. It's been a lot of fun doing
 programming. I like writing software and developing complex systems with
 interesting interactions. I love designing the machinery that creates a
 program.
 It's like... tinkering. It feels like building with blocks or legos, except
 it's
 for little machine parts. And then there's just sending data to and fro and
 modifying any operations it performs on it, and eventually that data reaches 
 some endpoints that create an effect that is displayed to the player. Or user.
 I should say user. Not all software is video games you know. ... I knowww but
 they're the most interesting! I love how they are designed around mechanics!
 like... game design is fundamentally about breaking down the world into ideas
 for how it should *work*, like how it should behave. It's amazing and I love
 it!
 
 It's all I can think about!
 
 I am utterly consumed!
 
 I'm also pretty sure I'm autistic.
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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