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by patcon 3y ago
Some humans are curious to be exploratory of knowledge that "escapes" these classifications, as you say :) this is, in some definition, the criteria of an artist of sorts. Maybe artistic minds are just scientists of another cloth,
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by patcon 3y ago
I appreciate what you're saying, but convergence (via alternative paths, of various depths) is its own signal. Repeated rediscovery perhaps isn't necessarily wastefulness, but affirmation and validation of deep truth for which the
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by patcon 3y ago
I don't think I'm a materialist, but I downvoted you because "bag of electric meat" just radiates a silly smugness that overrides whatever other value your comment offered. Can't say why others might be downvoting t
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by patcon 3y ago
In the 1000-active-user forum I managed, the small subset of ppl who feel ownership of the community (maybe 20 in my case) ABSOLUTELY read the CoC. it's a small minority, but those who read it are often prominent and engaged ppl, and t
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by patcon 3y ago
I think the issue you're zoning in on is that "not rich" is a loose definition. For some ppl it's "living in a small 1br apartment and not eating out", but for others it means "couchsurfing at goodwill of
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by patcon 3y ago
Polis (and Twitter's community notes, I believe) Participation At Scale Can Repair The Public Square https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t... Polis: Scaling deliberation by mapping high dimension
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by patcon 3y ago
Oh hey, I came across your Social Protocols groups while doing my regular rounds for Polis-related projects a few months ago, when I found Propolis! Was trying to figure out why your name was familiar-ish :) I've got you in this spread
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by patcon 3y ago
Shift+click or Ctrl+click works if someone doesn't have a middle button (I forget the exact combo bc it's just in muscle memory from daily use)
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by patcon 3y ago
She was Canadian. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_(Canadian_band)#Name_di...
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by patcon 3y ago
This makes me think of the matrix. Maybe one can't shield their true thoughts if they don't know they're in a simulation...?
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by patcon 3y ago
If they want to learn how it's going to fuck over society (even if they want to avoid that) it makes some weird sort of sense to be the ones applying the breaking pressure. Assuming good faith, this is where they'd best learn how
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah... up until now, we've had the privilege of trusting that everyone "on the wire" speaking "our protocol" is a conscious being, deserving (at least in theory) of our time and respect in return for their own. No
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by patcon 3y ago
:)
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by patcon 3y ago
Heh not sure if you're aware, but our brain seems to have a special treatment or logic for contextualizing "high technology", as indicated by one well-documented failure modes: the "influencing machine" is a feature
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by patcon 3y ago
It may not be as stupid as it looks. If this is connected to what I understand, the tech has its provenance in Starling Lab: https://www.starlinglab.org/journalism-about/ Starling Lab involves Dan Boneh.
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by patcon 3y ago
> I have that thought quite often, both for cells and for aggregate things like countries or religions. You both might find this interesting :) Information Closure Theory of Consciousness (2020) https://www.researchgate.net&#x
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by patcon 3y ago
I thought this was talked about in high school biology... S-curves for populations that settle. Sometimes a population goes above the carrying capacity and it crashed and oscillates until it stabilizes. Humans are in an exponential J-curve
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by patcon 3y ago
Haven't used it yet, but if this library built on Cloudflare Workers can do for webrtc what PartyKit.io does for websockets (again via Cloudflare Workers), then I expect it'll be a pleasure to use :) https://github.com&
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by patcon 3y ago
Forward-forward algorithm is more like the brain. As I understand, backpropagation transformers require storing data, doing calculations on that aggregate, and sending it back through, which no neural structures can do anything like. https
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When Our Gaze Is a Physical Force(scientificamerican.com)
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by patcon 3y ago
> I don’t think seeing where someone is reading is enticing. I agree that if we explode the word "reading" into everything it might be an analog for, then some of this could make more sense. If "reading" a page on t
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by patcon 3y ago
Yep, been thinking on that paper as well: Traveling words. There's code! https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07315 https://github.com/santiag0m/traveling-words
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by patcon 3y ago
I'm flipping back and forth on my analysis of the situation as I'm reading your exchange, for what it's worth. So you're both stating your perspectives well, and holding valid positions as far as in concerned. My origina
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by patcon 3y ago
Your great analogy provoked a thought, and at risk of taking it too seriously: The bridge you describe sounds like one that was built and would be maintained in a more organic way. If we repaired more, we'd perhaps have more objects bu
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by patcon 3y ago
Isn't the farmer the wrong person to ask? As in, the margins are razor-thin because the competitors (merged conglomerates operating) are operating vertically-integrated at scale, driving prices so low that only they can skim enough t
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah thanks for stating it clearly. That distinction makes sense to me too :)
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by patcon 3y ago
Re: cutting undersea cables. For critical infrastructure like this during cold war style conditions (i.e. Russian-NATO conflict), I wonder how pros/cons of public vs private ownership compare... For example: I could imagine sabotaging
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by patcon 3y ago
Valid critique. Thanks. Out of curiosity, in what country do you live?
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by patcon 3y ago
> in the beginning he pretty much guessed it Ah, you've given me a thought I'm grateful for. Thanks! I'm someone who's had a gut feeling about something in some random niche of science for several years. I've sp
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by patcon 3y ago
I'm imagining that it would be something like if Cirque de Soleil was trying to kill me. It sounds funny at first, but would honestly be nightmare fuel. It would probably feel like an unstoppable, inhuman force.

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