swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
I thought the same. (I did something similar in drawing. So it's a not uncommon path) Get your art sharp. Digest that into a science. Digest the science into automation. (And yes, one could argue that the result is a crystalline turd.)
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by swayvil 3y ago
This is smart stuff. All of it makes good sense. I speak as a compulsive editor. You can tighten it up, and tighten it up again, and sloppy doggerel becomes so clear. Really a lovely piece of writing about writing.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Who would flag this?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Stating via insinuation is so last millennium.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This is exactly what a "rise of the machines" style attack looks like. The bureaucratic world is so much easier to dominate than the physical world.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Why?
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by swayvil 3y ago
It is active in extremely tiny doses. Micrograms. That's why.
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by swayvil 3y ago
A friend of mine had a conversation with "Mr Mushroom" (while wandering a field one drizzly evening, tripping). Sir Mushroom offered that he's a wizard from a thousand universes away. He travels everywhere, guiding people by
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by swayvil 3y ago
LSD doesn't show up on piss test. It's somewhat unique in that. Something to keep in mind.
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by swayvil 3y ago
>Customizable parts. Open choice of components. He says, gesturing at the robot's groin.
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by swayvil 3y ago
But the committee-thinking is still constrained by the language. Any committee-thoughts must be coarser and slower than the member thoughts. We're trading depth for breadth, or something like that.
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by swayvil 3y ago
So the more identical the committee members are, the smarter the committee?
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by swayvil 3y ago
So as we add layers of language, intelligence goes down. (Of course, to the residents of that layer, only the residents of that layer are intelligent. The depths are inscrutable chaos. And further layers are ... Tools? Toys?) Individuals ar
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by swayvil 3y ago
Self-organizing brownie swarms manage the whole process from the ethereal plane.
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by swayvil 3y ago
From the perspective of humans, humans behave best. I think that's what we mean by intelligence. Valuable behavior.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It isn't russia/china fuckery OR usa autofuckery. It's russia/china fuckery AND usa autofuckery. And to further fuzz the culprits, the usa/china/russia people invest in each other's "countries".
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by swayvil 3y ago
Just finished a walkin closet cabinet (from kits) installation. All walls, floor to ceiling, veneered particleboard. Heavy, fragile, crumbly, weirdly hard. Rather nope. Blame the client.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I dream of an inflatable couch. Bear with me. It could be well designed and high quality. And with a nice slipcover. There is somebody who makes them but for the life of me I can't recall who. They come with a built-in compressor.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The best way to fit a hand is not another hand. The best way to fit a hand is a glove. So when you say "good advice" I say, "it depends"
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by swayvil 3y ago
Ya, fucking with paste is a pet peeve of mine. What's a good argument for fucking with paste?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I've seen similar in forums. A couple of diligent haters, posting frequently, can supply enough drama-energy to keep the forum active for years.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Here's an idea. Vibrator storage. Like a guitar string. You set it vibrating and that's your storage. (Then you find ways to keep the vibrational energy from bleeding off. Vacuum, magnetic bearings...) I'm pretty sure it&#x27
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by swayvil 3y ago
Yes and yes. Those are the technical challenges facing us.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's dominance by business that's to blame. Business says "put money in the hole. Deliver money to hole with fast wheeled box." Everything else is disposable, sacrificial.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Flywheels. Man, what a sweet energy storage solution. If only we could get that to work for vehicles. Advancements in the technology have been made. We might be close. Also, anybody know anything about "vibrating weight on a spring&quo
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by swayvil 3y ago
She wears a suit with shoulder pads. Dates Michael Douglas.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It might not be rules. It might be something deep and squishy like "intelligence" or "aesthetics".
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by swayvil 3y ago
Hey that riddle was in Labyrinth (with David Bowie as the goblin king!)
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by swayvil 3y ago
Am I the only person who wonders how "Marilyn Vos Savant" also happens to be the smartest person? If you didn't notice, "Savant" means smart. So is it just a coincidence? Karma? The pressure of carrying such a name
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by swayvil 3y ago
Dudes staring at you with serious expressions. A bit of shiny techno stuff in the background. Scifi book cover yeah!

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