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A cacophony of meaty slaps in morse-code.

I like localsend mself

it has helped in that I can visualize more clearly and with better control, than I could before.

do you practice?

shikantaza (zen meditation, basically) has significantly improved my ability to visualize.

repairing a giant 2-story deck. scary and strenuous, perhaps. But it beats office work.

it's literally whatever is approved by the central committee. which is actually pretty smart when you think about it

Amish luddite. Technology is vetted by a central committee before the public is allowed to use it.

I was at LOWES the other day with a used can of paint that I brought for color matching. obviously used. beat up and stained. at the checkout the computer halted the checkout process said "did you forget something in your cart?"

yeah fuck that. also fucks self-checkout. are we so poverty stricken as a society now that we can't afford to pay cashiers?

in art you don't know what you're making. you are creating, you aren't just moving towards a goal. that's the power of it and that's why it feels so good. now an llm might assist in that, but you got to be there with your hands on it, deeply. there is no other way.

ai is the natural evolution of language. it's the next level of that device.

creativity is you wandering the aisles of walmart, pushing your cart past shelves of all kinds of devices.

deepseek!

in a roguelike game, my incentive for playing is the discovery of weird new stuff. this might be the opposite of procedural. because procedural is just the same old stuff in new combinations. right?

how would we get a procedural thing or an AI thing to spit out truly new weird cool stuff? connect it to a good random number generator?

I'm listening to OK Computer right now. Came upon this reply half way through "Let Down". Hmm.

In my own procedural explorations, the solution to the 10,000 bowls of oatmeal problem is to manually curate them and give the user only the exceptionally good ones. It's a tedious lot of work.

It's like reading the title of the post and skipping reading the actual post. She embodied a popular identity, offered a popularly STEMmy business plan, and the rest was skipped.

Word to wise entrepreneurs.

I dislike lamb but the rest sounds great. Maybe I could sub beef.

In Orwell's 1984, control of the language was central to control of society. Newspeak and such.

Consider recent quibbles over pronouns.

we clearly need to design better salmon.

Things seen at a distance blend together, as opposed to just disappearing.

So that's an interesting parallel. Says something about memory.

You ever spend a decade working on something really great? I mean something truly brilliant and clever and next-level. And you bring it all the way to solid results. And it's real and beautiful. And nobody cares.

I have. I think that's the dev parallel here.

if the Buddha had a smart phone, it would be a Mudita Kompakt.

maybe the physical world is the moderator of the dream world (internet). In the absence of the physical world the dream world runs rampant.

with no empirical reference, truth becomes a matter of popularity or the loudest argument.

with no space, everybody lives next door to a thousand assholes.

A billion hungry discorporate souls, roaming a vast non-space, looking to feed their hunger, looking to eat each other. Some call that hell.

it reminds me of this trippy video. it's got a similar raw natural waves thing going

https://vimeo.com/313049496?turnstile=1.bljcR6EBA-gZ8gcx0Id8...

If the past has taught us anything it's that we can contrive a logically-consistent, authoritatively-founded rationale to support literally anything.

Remember covid? We all fell into lockstep with great eagerness. Suddenly everybody agreed on what's good and bad, who's good and bad. And why. So don't go pointing fingers. Attend to the 2x4 in your own eye because it's happening to you right now.

They have this standard icon for leopard. That's an example of it. It's like our Mickey Mouse isn't exactly anatomically correct either.

I don't think he's sitting on the leopard.

Would you say that modern medical science is truth-motivated or profit-motivated? 50-50? 60-40?

Agreed. And reading is not an unalloyed good. We squat over our fetish and acquire a bit of a hunch.

200 years of pro-reading propaganda may have bent our opinion. Once upon a time reading was considered a morbid activity. And it kinda is.

I doubt it's as simple as that. I mean we're talking about a kind of cultivation of the self, acquiring a higher way of seeing. I suspect that some kind of destruction of the old way of being is called for to arrive at this higher state.

Via some kind of disaster maybe. Or a long erosion. Maybe drugs.