nordstreem

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by nordstreem 2y ago
Do the majority spend their time in pursuit of money because they want to or because the rent is so damn high? Because it’s what we’re educated to do? I don’t mean academic education either. I mean Main Street social norms where there’s no
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by nordstreem 2y ago
We didn’t need to build ChatGPT for that. Such physical measure and awareness that resources are finite and humans require resources has been in front of human eyeballs for centuries. You’re just a contemporary worker bee following orders.
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by nordstreem 2y ago
> We stop growing not only when we stop learning, but when we stop creating. This is generic enough to leave open to debate what we should create. It waves off the impact on the future to create. It’s cute and poetic but as usual ignores
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Maybe. But there is no maybe about the mess being left for the future. If future people are forfeit as we refuse to sacrifice today, why preserve people today? I say bring chaos now so the mess makers deal with their externalities for a cha
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Not an endorsement but a criticism of how schools teach math: https://www.mentava.com/ According to Mentava their program has 5th graders ready for AP math and middle schoolers ready for college computer science. 20 minutes
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Yeah need that muscle memory and not just the eyeball/ear memory Neurons aren’t special. Electrical state is all over our bodies. Need to use it to trigger the chemistry that builds muscle not just neurons
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Human managers also easily succumb to survivorship and confirmation bias (I got this far when others didn’t; I must be great!) I very much am for letting the machines do it all socializing/democratizing what “all” means, and otherwis
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by nordstreem 2y ago
It’s all just recursive computation and memoization of the important bits.
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Get out of your routine and introduce some dissonance. Outside is an endless miasma of geometric and color gradient state change overload for the brain, garbage collects the social objects we’re forced to hallucinate. Sit in one spot too lo
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Amazon, Kroger, Red Bull… brands… have all the capital, buy up supply, add their markups and fees, etc influence supply and demand through price fixing in abstract math games. Meanwhile the public is shackled to nickel and dime, dollars and
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by nordstreem 2y ago
“Real stuff” retail logistics is 100% a game of physical statistics; keep enough necessities on shelves people don’t riot. Everything else about society is conservative political ideology Just angling for vanity rewards based upon peddling
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by nordstreem 2y ago
People who refuse to continuously integrate new life experience and prefer to idle under one prestige title or two until they die are wild. Feels a lot like rent seeking. It’s a bit Middle Ages; god king has said this man is named Farmer, s
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by nordstreem 2y ago
What is the issue with not making more Tesla factories?
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by nordstreem 2y ago
Pairs well with corporates “next quarter without regards for global impact” At some point we all just project “Gfy.” and refuse to “blink” and measure ourselves; we just keep rolling, saying “Gfy.” to those in the way. Maybe we couch that i