CapriciousDay

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[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Well I think there would be some obvious physical limits because of finite processing power like maybe a minimum distance, a maximum viewing distance, a discrete time interval and so on. Maybe some of the system would be modelled stochastically because being fast is more important than being accurate when simulating such a big system.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any time there's a ready meal from the supermarket and for some reason the adhesive is way stronger than the plastic film. You end up with loads of bits of film just sort of stuck to the rim of it. Super annoying.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

We're just smelly sacks of biology like a rat or a lizard who happen to have developed higher reasoning capacity for whatever reason.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

not only do these people want to do fascism, they want you to rawdog it

Edit: having read this back to myself, I realise that the alternative of non-rawdogged fascism would be much more unlikely

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

As an exercise, try to be conscious about your thought process, write stuff down. When your thought process leads to an action with a consequence or verifiable prediction, consider: did it pan out? Was that because of your thought process or a fluke? If something went wrong then what about your thought process didn't help you?

This can help you to narrow down stuff like: did a possibility not arise to you, were you biased/overly dogmatic in some way, did you just not know some relevant information or a particular technique that could have helped you? Have you gotten out of practice with something? Was the situation even in your control?

And like wise if it's good, what can you repeat? Did you apply some good critical thinking rule or something you learned? Are there situations where this wouldn't have happened this way?

I find it's impractical to do this for everything but worthwhile doing every so often and sometimes this can call out patterns in your cognitive processes.

Another one on mental clarity: do the apple test. Try to visualise an apple. At some point I struggled with this and got mediocre results but I was able to improve it by doing some visualisation based "meditation"/exercises and employing some techniques like verbally saying or thinking the word "apple" or a description of one and/or focusing on parts of it before attempting to call the whole apple into view. This had some carry over benefits like being able to visualise things in blender in my head better.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's still March... 2020

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Too real. Not just holidays, weeks and months go by and it's like "shit when did it get to 2025??"

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

I no longer feel a sense of unrealised potential for myself I guess. That's it, I've got what I've got.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago

This from the same people who told you to inject disinfectant and are actively distancing themselves from international medical consensus.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Bill Burr's project to turn every mansion into Luigi's Mansion

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Without knowing the finer details, my assumption would be that it's some kind of risk/reward tradeoff.

Ok the nuclear risk is higher, but causing chaos in nuclear security could create opportunities like giving Trump or Musk more direct access to the nukes or removing people who might have prevented them from using them, thereby granting them more personal leverage. This would be in keeping with the Project 2025 aligned executive orders and such.

There might even be commercial opportunities for Musk: "oh well the state management of nuclear security was super inefficient, ApocalypseX will do it"

Remember disaster capitalism is a thing.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think Hanlon's razor is a false dichotomy here. Neither stupidity nor malice are required to explain self-interest, which is the far more likely explanation given the people involved and their actions up to this point.

 

Or maybe a catchier name would be a "basic human decency GPL extension"

I can't help but notice that organisations constantly co-opt free software which was developed with the intent to promote freedom, use it to spread hate and ideas which will ultimately infringe on freedom for many.

The fact that hateful people who use such software may then go on to use it to promote or otherwise support fascism which prevents others from enjoying the software in the way it was imagined, is one potential manifestation of the paradox of tolerance in this respect. I think this is particularly true for e.g. social media platforms and the fediverse.

My proposal to combat this would be the introduction of a "paradox of tolerance" license which says that organisations which use the software must enforce a bare-minimum set of rules to combat intolerance. So anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, etc. The idea is then to make overtly hateful organisations legally liable for the use of the software through the incompatibility of the requirements with their hateful belief system.

This could be an extension to GPL and AGPL where the license must be replicated in modified versions of the software, thereby creating virality with these rules.

Is this a thing already? I understand OS and FOSS have historically had a thing for political neutrality but are we not starting to find the faults with this now?

 

iCloud backdoor mandated by the UK. We have to ask the question: if MI5 has access to this today, won't Reform have access to it tomorrow?

We even have Elon Musk trying to get to Reform aligned with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), an already far-right party currently polling very well.

We have to act as though an overtly far-right government is coming to the UK some time before 2030 and if that's the case: our government and judiciary need to stop laying the groundwork for them today.

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