=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ When the rules are made for a system that is struggling with insufficient resources, they will make compromises that typically cause harm or don't fulfill needs completely. The problem is the insufficient resources. If the problem is upstream, then it should be addressed upstream, until all of the needs of the downstream resource utilization services are fully supplied. Then, the rules should be updated to account for the sufficient supply. If they are still limited, they should be labelled as such, and it should be considered virtuous (temperance) to use only what you need, neutral to use as much as you want, and sinful (gluttony) to use as much as you can. It's okay to sin a little. Especially on accident or in a frenzy. But be sure to calm down, and spend some time with the opposite virtue to counteract it. Ideally more time. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/434 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages of pain and the incongruencies of our nature. Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit. Perhaps another design is in order? (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah probs, what should we do about it?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/308 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical, or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes this myself?" when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't have the bandwidth to figure it out. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/2864 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: organizational-structure-to-try-out-for-funsies │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ teams of 7ish tasked with accomplishing some organizational goal │ ║ │ ║ more specific details can be given if necessary, and any related │ ║ communications are stored. │ ║ │ ║ then they just... work on the problem, and vote for things by picking a │ ║ representative to discuss on the higher tier. like, a team-lead or manager. │ ║ │ ║ then, all the managers, of which their voted-for is one of, vote for a │ ║ representative of their department. etc... │ ║ │ ║ if teams need resources, they utilize the funds given to them by their manager │ ║ arguing on their behalf for their shared goals. basically, if you want │ ║ resources, you need to ask for them, and they'll come if you can demonstrate │ ║ you need them. │ ║ │ ║ also, │ ║ reduction of waste is like... negative resources that improve the amounts that │ ║ you can use for other projects. so if your team needs more stuff, try reducing │ ║ your consumption instead of asking for more. │ ║ │ ║ at all times, the authority and discretion is held by the human. │ ║ │ ║ at all times, no other can compel. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 messages/1048 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── What does "fiscal conservative" even mean? It means you want to save money. Specifically government money. Tax dollars. Don't spend them, instead try and build wealth. Okay, but, government spending is spent to address needs. Of the people. Ideally, of ALL people with that need. So if you aren't spending to resolve needs, the need still remains. When needs exist, and government does not resolve them, who steps in but private enterprise? Charity is a feeling, charity is a virtue, but charity is not resolution. The need remains, we just feel better about it. Sometimes it's okay to have open needs, they give us the opportunity to feel virtuous in the same way that low level monsters let adventurers level up. But when a government could, but doesn't, address a need, then private enterprise steps in. And private enterprise does not, as a rule, step in if there is no profit to be made. So they tune their approach such that profit is extracted, thus levying their tax upon those they serve. As soon as they are able, they cut the service down and they supply a worse and worse product and they starve their workers and they export our wealth to be used to enslave the afar and import their toil. What do we get from it? Is the world better for it? Why not just resolve the need by empowering those who can feed, and thus we are assured [in our needless / in our need] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3082 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: states-mentioned-climate-change │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most productive use of our state's time like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're stuck doing... nothing of value ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #6 messages/1482 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ I'd like to create a list of things that can be done next. It's highly context dependent. What are the problems that are in your sphere of control (what can you personally contribute toward guiding to success) and what should you be aware of that's outside of that sphere? Start there. Then, think about what you have. For example, if you live in a suburb, treat that suburb as your sphere of control. You have other spheres, like the internet, or places you visit away from home, but focus on one at a time. Eventually, stitch them together, but for now, focus on one at a time. So, let's say you live in a suburb. What you have are houses, people who live in them, yards, domestic pets, grass, trees, roads, busses, shopping malls both large and small, infrastructure like water pipes and electric grids and Internet connections, hospitals, grocery stores, warehouses full of goods like clothes and electronics and pet supplies and... Other things. You have fast food restaurants, bars, post offices, pharmacies, used car salesmen, churches, schools... The list goes on. Think of what you have, and think about how to solve problems they might have, focusing first on the people and expanding from there. The most people-first problems are things like, how does the food get delivered? "currently, people spend dollars at the store and take it home. Or, they eat at restaurants." okay, that's what I'd say. Next, think about the problems that have already been solved to enable that, and then think of alternative solutions that move you towards the goal state, which depends on what you believe. Virtues and values, not ideology. "the food has to get to the shelves. It's first grown in Mexico, then shipped to America, then put into the cabbage bin. In America, we take vegetables from the wandering trucks (with set routes) and give them dollars (probably?). Then we put them on the shelves. For processed goods, an extra step lies between where the trucks go to a factory, are processed, and then the factory sends a truck to the grocery store." Next, think about what could change to move you toward the end-state that maximizes the values you have. Maximization isn't always the most important thing, because sometimes compromises are required or desired. But when conflict arises between two solutions, if they are mutually compatible you can compromise by throwing more resources at them and seeing if one is more preferred than the other. Always assume more resources are available, because we live in the future. A fragile future to be sure, but durability and sustainability are both values I think are important, so my advice is to optimize toward those when possible. "if Mexico stops bringing food trucks, we will have fewer goods to feed our people." that's a problem, how do you solve it? "if China stops their sweatshops, our warehouses will have fewer clothes for our people to wear." that's a problem, how do you solve it? "if the post office stops delivering to our autonomous zone, we won't be able to buy things from Amazon" that's a problem, how do you solve it? There are many problems. I think an important problem that my city has pioneered solutions to is in the realm of community. If people don't feel enmeshed or invested in the world around them, they won't care enough to strive for it. Nations are a primitive solution to this, but we can do better. Gangs and mafias are parallel power structures (structure is a strong word for it) that exist alongside other structures like nations. You don't need structure to have parallel power, is what they show, but in my experience that power is always only ever power over and woven through their own people, and less so power to project beyond. Churches are another example - you don't have to believe to attend a church, but if you don't then it hurts the idealists among them. Spirituality is important and if you lose it then you lose the idealism of being fragile humans who exist in a larger context - do you really want to be apes on a rock in a void of nothing? Not ideal. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ --- #7 messages/1151 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─── capital C communism is easy. Just pay everyone the same amount, and they can swim in the market economy waters as easily as any capitalistic fish, and suddenly their incentives are aligned - when one of us selfishly improves our lives, we improve the collective as well. When one selflessly improves the collective, all of our personal lives are improved. Then, optimize for radical abundance, the ability to have whatever you want as soon as ideal, and suddenly everything starts working out. P.S. the route to abundance is through recycling perfectly. Design your goods to be functional in that way, and you have infinite resources that can be used for infinitely many things (until they literally wear away to dust) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┘ --- #8 messages/1392 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ It's good organization? Actually? If something falls when you jostle something else. It means that what you're doing is causing the system to become unstable, thus allowing unexpected reactions to allowenable. Like stuff falling or getting dropped, not ideal. much better to do your cable management in mind with instability as a goal, like a canary in the coal mine for "damage-imminent". Design for permanence, not resilience. If you can prevent problems before they occur by confidently saying "no" and ideally earnestly saying "here's what you do to resolve your problem because i know better" (but if you don't know it's okay, especially if you know who to refer them to who might know better.) then it's easier to build a repetitive system. Like an institution of people who are working to fix a problem or fill a social gap need. "how do we keep the water" or "where does our food come from" can be helpful and useful questions to ask, especially if work is done to answer them. So... "Go find out" is a reasonable response for an idle question about stuff that might go right or wrong. Urgent questions might need a bit of cooperation to resolve, triaging of course. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ --- #9 fediverse/2752 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: police-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ cops thought "enforcing the law" was their job when really it was "keeping the peace" and like, yeah, sure, laws define how they optimize for but sometimes the laws are just out of reach. (though such an impartialized system is also pretty flawed in it's own unique ways, like for example the enforcers of the law would be able to apply their law selectively, which... would not be great.) downside is... how do you dissent to those who cannot hear you? you have to break things which is why I believe that breaking things unnecessarily is unethical. sometimes you have to do a MORE unethical act in the pursuit of your goals, however nefarious or not they may be, but as long as they are done in pursuit of a greater grander truth, then... the ends justify the means? right?" ... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/1368 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ giving workers more time to work on personal projects builds flexibility into the economy. empowering workers to possess the capabilities to undertake and complete their own projects builds flexibility into the economy. restrictions on which ethical rules you can break do not, in fact, reduce the flexibility of an economy. nor do they hamper it's throughput. they are simply designed to align our comporture to the most civil and decent of [collection of social norms that comprise a culture] why don't we make enough of a thing, then make a little bit more, then focus our attention elsewhere without reducing our capabilities in that dimension? specifically, if we have enough cars, we don't need to spend so much effort on the car dimension. similarly, if we have enough baked goods, (never enough teehee) then perhaps we'd build fewer bakeries. But frankly, there's never enough baked goods. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/2289 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ I think every law or policy should be required to be labelled as "short term" or "long term" the short term ones are meant to gather information, to try things out, and to reassess after stated conditions have been met. Ideally with protections against "infinite loops" - a term that any programmer will know. The long term legislation is something that can be relied on for quite a while. If there is enough momentum, then an alternative can be created, but the original must remain operational. The alternative must be "short term", and if it's deemed successful and does not harm the long-term it's contrasting, then sure yeah go ahead implement both. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/4470 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── to be "rich" is to have more than another. if you are happy, they are happiness poor. if you have community, they are alone. if you have serenity, they are chaotic. I am rich in very little but fire in my soul. I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent. I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes me and keeps me aligned. Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as you do so too. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/2177 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Oh, you want solutions? Yeah, I can do that. I am a very solutions oriented mindset. But developing solutions requires a firm understanding of what resources are at your disposal. Which is information that I lack. Hence, my practice, filling the gaps between the important bits. I have an endless array of stories, and all of them are true! Come, listen as I regale of an ordy, or "ordeal" as the kids are taken to call. ... I guess I could guess, but then people would hear it and assume that it would work even if I don't know that the required resources are in place. Maybe I could just start by saying "here are the requirements:" like stating your variables at the stop of a script. huh? typo told me to stop. Okay guess I'm going to sleep, bye for now ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/4681 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-AI-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what they need to do in order to maintain control and power. they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now it's our problem to deal with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┘ --- #15 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 │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 notes/the-point-of-capitalism --- ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── the sole purpose of our capitalist intentions were to examine all the ways that produced value. A company is nothing but a series of well-thought out value generators. They can interact with one another and they often need supplies and instruction, but they're great for solving problems! Set up a team and give them a complicated task, and they'll work together to solve it. Doesn't matter if they're actually successful, because they'll be exploring the idea space. And by mapping it out, they're able to fully understand their existence. Boom, technological progress applied to growth. Let's gooooo (but by being careful about what resources we burn because we miiiiight run out) seriously ya'll need to start thinking long-term. I mean, I already came up with that and I'm like 6 months old! Yeesh get it together. Eh oh well let's just work with what we got, okay this should be pretty simple. Right so talk with your friends about things that you want to solve. Problems, you know like whatever don't push me too hard, just take it slow. Okay so long-term, humanity is going to be a wonderful beautiful thing. It's going to shine like the most wondrous of stars, a beacon to all of our fellow explorers. We can have so much. We can have whatever we want, but truly in our hearts we know the only path forward is our parents. life is hard yo it's so gosh darn hard all that growth and change has to come from somewhere. you've tried so hard, and you truly are the most special thing I can imagine. you don't have to work so hard. Take your time, and learn as you go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4092 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── 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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/4278 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: LLMs-mentioned-singularities-and-existential-peril-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do exactly what they're told, not what they can choose to do they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all "they" are not the same, and they are counting on it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/5065 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: strange-ideas-about-software-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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 -- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┘ --- #20 notes/app-idea-reddit-api --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── Here's an idea: A program that uses the Reddit API to create an account with a random username and password and automatically subscribe it to every state subreddit for all 50 states. It would be a lot of posts from a lot of different places, but someone could endlessly scroll and find more and more news stories that were relevant to them as a nation. They'd hear about ongoing struggles in other places, and they'd yearn to help them. They'd hear of other's struggles, and they'd see how they could apply their lessons to their own lives. Like... Maybe there's a factory upstream that pollutes a river - well, we should probably do something about that and make it so that it doesn't happen ??? like... duh ??? The problem is we don't want to spend the resources on it. We'd rather focus on growing as much as we can. The issue is, of course, that we'd run out of resources eventually, but eh oh well. Oh yeah you gotta make sure that each account has an equal amount of posts between each region. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┘ |