Why are they saying "on our way" to something that's already here? We even have a name for it: the Anthropocene Extinction Event. Seems dishonest for them to ask that question and then fail to mention the name of it.
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there were bunnies, they were jumping on a trampoline...
This seems to relate to my quest as a metamage "to identify and assemble the Epistemological Primes into the Knowledgecore and use it to defeat the Omnarch". I'm taking a somewhat opposite approach to a PhD, embracing what I've seen someone else refer to as "high-leverage generalism" but at the metaphorical doctorate level.
All this stuff about tokens and vectors is quite different from my approach. I'm always interested to see how other metamages approach this issue.
I think a hypergraph structure is the only thing capable of properly representing knowledge. Knowledge is not just a bunch of nodes with 1:1 connections; there's complex structure in the nodes.
MountainMan1312 commented on My Theory: Advertising is a lot like capitalism itself · Posted by u/cm2012
This relies on false definitions of capitalism and communism, definitions which I believe are carefully crafted to preclude you from having certain thoughts.
You seem to understand capitalism as "freedom" and communism as "government control". These false definitions are what leads people to believe Democrats or Nazis are leftists, when they're very far from it.
Really, capitalism is that thing where when you work harder your boss gets richer. Someone else besides you is the owner of the products of your labor. Capitalism allows the capital-owning class to use the worker class as machinery for a free ride through life.
Socialism (communism isn't quite the right word here) is "worker ownership and control of the means of production". Yes that has included tyranny in the past, but modern socialists are mostly of the libertarian type and totally reject government control of anything.
Yes, advertising is a lot like capitalism, but that's because they both serve only to redirect productive capacity towards things which the parasitic class wants instead of what we need. Advertising convinces you to buy useless trinkets and to think in ways you never would have thought otherwise.
It's a totalitarian nightmare right now too, what rock are you living under? Why would one group of the same ideology be tyrants and not the other, just because they have a few different policy opinions?
Democrats slap a rainbow on everything and call it liberation. Republicans slap red white and blue on everything and call it freedom. They're both pawns of the same ruling class who get a free ride on our backs.
MountainMan1312 commented on Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello 'F–Around and Find Out' wsj.com/lifestyle/fafo-ge... · Posted by u/impish9208
Not everyone is going to have good instincts for parenting, but I do think anyone who is following one methodology is probably going to have a bad time. Like I probably lean towards gentle parenting maybe? But yes, if my kid hits me with a water cannon I'll throw them into the water? That seems normal?
Likewise there are all these horror stories of parents letting their kids run around and break shit in other people's houses, and, yes the general shape to my parenting is to be empathetic and sensitive, and put there individuality first, but also think the idea of letting my kid just do whatever they want all the time is stupid? and actually lacks empathy?
But on the flip side, I think it's equally crazy that there's this certain ideological position that's like "If you don't hit your kid you're doing it wrong" and first of all I'm not going to hit my kid, but second of all, it seems weird to me to assume your kid will fail and be bad? Be prepared for it sure, but lead with that?
I think hitting your kid is okay only if they put themselves or others in danger. Kid putting a fork into the breaker box? Smack the stupid out of em. You need to associate mortal danger with not wanting pain.
Like that time I ran out in front of a car. Well deserved whoopin.
That time I said a curse word was not a deserved whoopin.
> You can almost imagine it sobbing in between sentences, can't you?
No, that's not the image I had in my head. My head canon is more like:
"Oh wow, oh no, oh jeez (hands on head in fake flabbergastion) would you look at that, oh no I deleted everything (types on keyboard again while deadpan staring at you) oh noooooo oh god oh look what I've done it just keeps getting worse (types even more) aw jeez oh no..."
Reminds me of that Michael Reeves video with the suggestion box. "oh nooooo your idea went directly in the idea shredder how could we have possibly forseen this [insert shocked Pikachu meme]"
The AI thinks it's funny
Yes, it's certainly a successful distraction. I wonder what big evil thing the shadow people are doing while the coast is clear...
I'm toying around with HTMX for my website. It's going to be sort of a wiki but a little different; the public exports from my internal knowledgebase with some extra crap mixed in.
I have lots of notes of varying types and formats. Org-mode files are all pretty standard, but there's like 3 different Markdowns and an untold number of randomly-formatted .TXT files. I want to generate their webpages on-the-fly and not have to worry about exporting it.
One of the "crap mixed in" things I want is to integrate parts of a gitweb-like interface into the notes. I reference repos and commits regularly in my notes. Would be neat to mouse-over them and get a little popup with basic info about it.
I also like that the author refers to themselves as a Technomancer. Personally I'm an metamagical artificer. I love meeting fellow adventurers.
Specifically it is the ideology of Capitalism, representative democracy, the rule of law, etc... basically the ideology of the enlightenment.
This misuse of Liberal is easy to track the etymology. The colloquial usage of "liberal" does sound like an opposite of conservative, it's basically a synonym for "lenient". But colloquial usage is often totally incorrect in certain contexts, like this one.
People who use "liberal" as an opposite of conservative are just bad at type theory.