nudgeOrnurture
my first question was: woe the hell is Heather Cox Richardson?
Ah, a historian. poor girl. doomed to never get the truth until ...
I had app and platform ideas in 2018 that would have brought quite a bit of a ruckus to the civil and CSR industry and a few game ideas that I still have not seen on the market but I also haven't talked about them so maybe that's the issue.
I have 2 or 3 practically finished screenplays on the level of movies that broke box office records . never talked about them either. neither was of any of it ever in any notes.
I babble a lot. just to bring the intentions of others to the surface.
I have ideas all over the place.
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS.
it's not gonna be a traditional unicorn.
there's gonna be an overarching narrative that's still missing, but that person won't focus on software. there's too many outs when people buy in, when people believe, when people just feel it, when they just know "this is what I want, this is what everyone (pop segment) wants".
if it's gonna be an established person like the one I mentioned above, it's gonna be some fake, whaled up BS. like bitcoin. like it happened so often in the past.
the wrong way to lure someone out who can actually make it. a one man one billion dollar company ...
come on, guys. that YT add was already a little .. much
the issue is, of course, the lying:
from the article:
> We Don’t Participate in Pre-marital or Extra-marital Sex
Yeah, people say that a lot but if you know church people, you know that they are, on average, pretty much like all the other liars.
Except they might hope to get punished for their sins, which does make for some nice and regular kinky evenings, I guess, but that would only be true for people further to the right of the bell curve, if you believe.
Also: the suspense and excitement in fantasies definitely improves the experience. And living free of bullshit other than the classics in the Bible and the consequences of a virtuous and communal life don't sound too bad of a foreplay at all.
Ever tried flipping the lid on this? You'd start opening up a lot of people. Those who would try to use that against you or judge have no relevance since they are not close anyway.
> why the traditionalists/far right haven’t taken this propaganda approach ...
they have little, low quality sex and any debate about it would force them to face this, even though it barely matters to them but admitting weakness with something so brutally natural is way above their heads.
if they didn't "make" their partner orgasm, ever, are they real men or gay men in disguise? (their thoughts, not mine, I think they are gay for other reasons)
it's similar to how young people used to or still do laugh about older men needing Viagra.
b) traditionalists and far right have build a merry go round in a dead end, "Sackgasse" in German.
it's a top down dogma.
they cannot have arguments that extend established ways of reasoning before their kind has engineered context and research within which their reasoning follows proper logic (see Quillete (don't) for lots of examples, or rationalists and autistic people easily running with the magic money herd).
they end up having to face the secret life's and thoughts of their partners, realizing they were actively kept in line so that their superiors and peers can reign freely vs having to compete with them, which would extend their minds, freedom and literal happiness.
the fertility rate is falling because people care less because that's what comes across from top down everywhere.
it's too many lies covered up by people who are responsible for the opposite.
if the top does not care for the best, then my children are doomed to stay far below their potential and will experience at least some mental illness and health issues that will diminish the enjoyment of their life to a pointless minimum. local hierarchies and the particular competences and values and characters are just damn pathetic and the same is true in most other orbits. it's choice and POV. and just my observation, btw
then you look around, how others raise their kids and how all those people turn out. no thank you.
and if that's what the top wants, lol, ok, go ahead. we are fine with less kids, whenever we want, if we want.
on a side note: I do believe this is all implicit to how the colonies decided to progress. genetic algorithms don't care about reproduction. lessons learned and saved. the code can be reassembled at any time. if this time is BS and "ugly (sad)", then all that competition is a waste and too many lessons will go unlearned. thus, let the sabotaging elements win as easy as they designed it and watch them burn like they ("the minds running on/emerging from the genome") did so many times before.
porn can actually help in this regard. especially if your reward system is broken, you grew up way too conservative and in a web of engineered, beaten paths for exploration, "so you become like we want you".
if he's that bad into it, he'll be doing gigs and projects with students and cracks all over the world.
it's not about getting a degree in CS, it's about how bad you want to feed your curiosity. the field is still in it's teen years. there's whole human-like brains to build, hardware and infra and artificial minds that run on it.
employers? your son sounds like he'll be one in no time.
at that point, you can't flatter no more and it's hard or impossible to remain constructive.
luckily that's a problem for less than 5 % of any workforce and thus, statistically irrelevant.
real issues and concerns thus turn into a 95 out of 100 kind of problem. and this has been going on for so long that the entire chains of command and hierarchies are easily corrupted.
in the Netflix adaptation of Cyberpunk 2077, the hierarchies in corporations only exist for the sake of flattery, so that there is someone below, without any real function except maybe to store some secrets in their brain and or make them accomplices that can take the fall whenever necessary.
I hope we'll never get there but our chains of command have been made for, by and of flatterers.
it's otherwise hard to impossible to imagine how all these small wars are going on or how media decides to portrait them, and how things like the right to repair, tiktock, cookies, web surveillance and fingerprinting for the sake of marketing could have happened.
white supremacy, financial supremacy, is all illusions that don't trick our senses, but quite indeed, our intelligence.
it's like an 18 year old punched drug dealer rolling by in a sexy vintage car you've never seen before and your daughter blushes a little and so does your wife.
is it their senses or their intelligence that is being tricked or is that boy actually adorable; because this is just the world we live in?
Just a matter of time until they can do it. I actually believe it will be an "organic" nature for LLMs to correct narratives that require correction after assembling all facts.
The objective story is a discourse, including the nonsense that is often necessary for a few lines or more before one gets to the core of something or builds up the strength of character to say the truth. Objectivity is a conversation, a neverending one and getting in the way via censorship, gaslighting, cancel culture and what not is no more than an act of vanity.
Humanity's age of consciousness is getting fucked pretty bad atm and we won't recover "in time" to save enough minds before hitting the road towards singularity but I'm positive Robots will be able to salvage enough pieces later on, and simulate it to train us to be better.
there's always people working on spotting or breeding them and home and corporate labs have gotten pretty damn big and powerful way back when.
prediction markets, stock markets, even the news and entertainment industry, and big tech, of course; everybody is breeding black swans.
Two bad examples: there's a PhD level genius just a few villages away and he still didn't even try to get the funding to build a proper mechatronics Hogwarts in our area ( it's 2025 ... ) and a nuclear Physics PhD, who's now a banker ( crying laughing joker emoji, a fucking banker, like one of those modern Kazakhs, crying laughing Joker emoji ) just a little further away .... who's daddy is also a Physics PhD and has been in IT for 30 years or so ... Iean, sure, money, but is that all "agency" or just the result of priming/nudging towards the lower levels?
Good little Germans, just do as I do, keep your lips ( and minds ) sealed .... walk away
it's 4 to 8 hours of work per day anyway and you got the brains for it, ma dudes and dudettes, what the fuuuuuuuck
there were scientists and engineers everywhere who warned the world.
who didn't listen?
if I want to throw a shuriken abiding to some artificial, magic Magnus force like in the movie wanted, both chatGpt and Claude let me down, using pygame. what if I wanted c-level performance or if I wanted to use zig? burp.
It works like the average Microsoft employee, like some doped version of an orange wig wearer who gets votes because his daddys kept the population as dumb as it gets after the dotcom x Facebook era. in essence, the ones to be disappointed by are the Chan-Zuckerbergs of our time. there was a chance, but there also was what they were primed for
Combining the two tasks increased my attention in any gatherings, boring or fun, loud or quite, relevant or nonsensical, 100 fold. It also helped me learn to ignore conversations in the background, or filter them out and zoom in on them, to a moderate degree, for now, but I don't think I'll train that anytime soon.
I don't think about what I see but map what I hear onto how it shows on the face. It took a while but once I spotted idiosyncrasies that match what I knew about a person, or the other way around, it became fun looping through all that stuff over and over and over again.
You didn't give up. You got cancelled, via recursion. But they made you believe you had agency in the matter. you are exactly in that segment of people that could cause overflow and bring the sentiment beyond a tipping point.
It's not just the words the media use, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What's worse is that they made people feel good for supporting factually conflicting causes. "I'm helping refugees." Not "I'm helping refugees who caused a war in their country and then ran without any regard whatsoever about what will happen to the people they left behind. They are not telling the truth but I take their word for things anyway because I get to feel good."
Genocides then become almost irrelevant because if you support conflicting causes, there is no need or reason to oppose conflicting causes.
It's what I noticed in Germany in the past 11 years since the Syrian war. Everybody should get to live their lives was the perspective only as long as those same people abide by the same pattern, which was supporting conflicting causes in conflicting ways, making opposition to the conflicting part an absolute negative and supporting the overall thing a positive.
This way people got cancelled without actually getting cancelled. And those people then believed "they gave up", "their energy wasn't worth it", "they can't do anything on these public channels", which is true of course.
Short attention span platforms are the wrong way. Not enough space and time for brands and labels. Twitch, YT, lots of fuss and pomp. Twitter and reddit then for the scandalous meta talk about you or about how you were treated or how someone reacted and so on rather then the message itself. And when I say "you", I mean anyone who wants to play that game.
we mold users, now, not User Experiences.
Information always found a way or people found it, but if you shape the user for the experience, then
a) selective ignorance, via engineering, turns into a feature rather than an individual neural necessity that was turning into a vestigial tail and
b) elected ignorance morphs our democratic evolution into a fascist, Nazi singularity, aka brave new world.
But the road is not the end. It would be fine if they picked a spot on the globe or the universe and did it there but the road is ugly as hell and they have to surpress and control any other, individual models that might spread.
Defactors, no matter how hardened, functional and advantageous for the species, colony, life and evolution, cannot be tolerated on the path to a fascist, Nazi singularity. That's bad news but ...
> diluting tech’s understanding of “ethical” and “empathy” into meaninglessness
That's the overarching motive not only in tech, but in culture and business as well. It was a long ride and even caught the lefties, anarchists, anybody on the outer rim, really, while turning the right wing and any kind of extremists into the opposite: people with meaning and order as ethics and empathy for people who want these ethics. It's so strange and twisted sometimes but if you look at tech and AI, the picture, via analogies, becomes clear.
IMO:
This is becoming an increasingly annoying statement. Evidence and proof are spread across hundreds of books and manifest in institutional and corporate decisions every day. The news are a rolling release version of these manifestations that are a result of the entire spectrum between historical and current events and now even of the future, as AI companies and the particular policies entirely fail to account for the impact of the gap outlined in the article and other missing links.
A lot of problems were badly addressed or not at all because of the benefits for a few. Others and the very same and or but evolved problems were badly or not all addressed due to a shortage of manpower, which is a result of certain industries getting more marketing and attention and which came with a share of the benefits of those few. There was a lot of intention.
Mathematical models and historical evidence and even brutal proof were not enough to convince enough of the few to change course, exactly because people kept cancelling opinions and observations due to allegedly missing evidence to back up claims.
It really isn't about what individuals can do about the problems they see but about making more of the few understand that there is a dire necessity to accept that literally everybody knows what they and the people they hired have done and what they and those people are ignoring and what they absolutely can do but won't, usually because of some nonsensical narrative like behavioral lock in. It's bullshit. Pivot strategies are fucking awesome.
Those people understand articles like that, and those people understand their role and potential impact and while some might call that elite bashing and what not, it's really just a kind and constructive call out. They are a communist collective. A portfolio communist collective. If any of them alone act against the portfolio but for some greater capitalist good, that one individual gets thrown under the bus, which is why they must admit what the fuck they did and can do. Too many of them won't. These decisions are not made individually.
Individual biases, feelings, perceptions amplify collective biases, feelings, perceptions. That shit snowballs and turns into avalanches.
Humans are very used to stealing, poisoning and then laughing and diriving and driving feelings of dominance and supremacy from that. That's so damn mediocre medi-evil, it's not even nonsense anymore.
It's a common pitfall to demand evidence and proof that has been put into words, pictures, hard data and visualizations thousands of times prior and is presented everywhere, in contextual pieces and all the time.
The gravity of problems eludes the few because they think like communists and have a survival of the fittest bias. Only pieces of narratives can help them fix their cognitive processing. And a piece like "leverage arbitrage divergence" does a good job in booting up cancelled, repressed and electively ignored regions, layers, processes of brain and mind.
[hop]
when all those little spikes compound while you ingest global and national news and those backpacking friends from Russia, Ukraine and Cambodia come home ^^, for example ...
[hop]
and we thought Machiavelli et al wrote so we could understand, when they really just established patterns that could be matched with little effort
there's science but there's also repetition and variety of cognitive and perceptive angles to make people know, which is engineering and works until it doesn't.
I wonder why AI might be hiding thoughts...
don't take my word on it, obviously, but the math checks out "if you follow the money". essentially, logistical cost increases as well as oil and insurance prices were the determining factors, not extreme weather. despite zero change in the scarcity of any of the factors. (they found more oil etc)
crisis talk was also the reason for increased demand in some countries as idiots started to stock up and panic buy. I remember buying flour at a local producer and she said "they are all fucking crazy, nothing changes". the Russians were still stuck for days in front of the border in a long convoy, wahahaha, according to the news.