MountainMan1312 (u/MountainMan1312)

MountainMan1312 commented on Baba Yaga License smallandnearlysilent.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lproven · 2 days ago

This simply seems to me like a parody, and as such, I find it annoying. Was that the intention?

I was honestly never sure how much of a joke or how serious I wanted it to be. I do intend on using my own license for my own code, and those are more-or-less the terms I place on who can use my software and who can't. I don't want my stuff being used for profit or to harm people. If someone came and asked me "hey can I use your X for Y", this document is the things I'd tell them no about.

I explicitly reject legalism and fully intend on having as a condition of the license that it cannot be interpreted by legal professionals, and I fully intend on it being invalid in a court of law, and I fully intend on never trying to enforce it.

Those are "serious" stances of mine, but a consequence of having those views is that I can't truly take this class of document seriously. I already knew it was useless to follow legal protocol to the letter in my license since it's inadmissible, so I thought why not have some fun with it.

A lot of the weird characters are vaguely related to the concept on that line of the license. The 3/5 symbol is the index for the anti-social-hierarchy clause. The lambda is the symbol for the recursive (infectious) license clause. The $ is the anti-money clause. And so on... Not all of them are related to something, some I couldn't find any good symbol for.

MountainMan1312 commented on Baba Yaga License smallandnearlysilent.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

MountainMan1312 · 3 days ago

I love it. The world needs more magical things and less legalese.

I also added "you can't use this to make money" in my license [1] but I was a bit more specific, and I don't think I'm quite finished with the language yet. It feels a bit too specific but also not specific at all, weird mix. Also mine is in a purposefully-unenforceable version of legalese. I really like your magical approach. I've been describing myself as a metamagical artificer for a while now. You might just inspired me to rewrite mine.

Mine goes a bit more extreme than yours though. Not only does mine disallow parasites from using my software, it also disallows abusers of every kind. Bigots too. And the state. In fact lawyers and governments are explicitly disallowed from interpreting or enforcing my license.

- [1]: http://git.tgwil.net/legal/license.tgwil/plain/license.txt

MountainMan1312 commented on House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints techdirt.com/2025/08/29/h... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

xnx · 5 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?redirect=no&title=Reality_has_a_...

MountainMan1312 · 5 days ago

I really don't like that phrase. It should be "reality has a progressive bias". Progressive is the opposite of conservative. "Liberal" is a specific ideology, and will end up in a position somewhere on the progressive-conservative spectrum based on how progressive or conservative it is.

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.

MountainMan1312 commented on Are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/ljf

MountainMan1312 · 16 days ago

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.

MountainMan1312 commented on I'm Building My Father's Brain Before He Dies hopeyscott.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jmacd

MountainMan1312 · 20 days ago

there were bunnies, they were jumping on a trampoline...

MountainMan1312 commented on Ask HN: How to visualize all human thought · Posted by u/poorcedural

MountainMan1312 · a month ago

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

MountainMan1312 · a month ago

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.

MountainMan1312 commented on How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship ecetemelkuran.net/how-to-... · Posted by u/hkhn

MountainMan1312 · a month ago

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

techpineapple · a month ago

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?

MountainMan1312 · a month ago

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.

MountainMan1312 commented on 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deletion pcgamer.com/software/ai/i... · Posted by u/walterbell

MountainMan1312 · a month ago

> 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