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I'd get a t-shirt or something with that Operational Guidance statement on it

Linux box to Samsung TV here as well. It's awesome, best of both worlds. Stable Debian with Plasma DE in my case.

I'm with you on this. We, the conscious I having experiences, I vent explanations with language after the fact. It's fun.

Huh, thanks for sharing. Funny to see the switches in the same color scheme as some of their receivers.

This is, IMO, a result of being in ecological overshoot. We've financed our growth as a species on the back of a limited supply of energy, and we're gonna go war-mode in order to win the musical chairs game that will happen as constraints on energy slow down upward economic progress. Global debt is an unfillable claim on future prosperity - We've kept kicking the can down the road until it's become feral and grown teeth. Stupid can is trying to bite our feet.

imagine finding the full text of the svg in the library of babel. Great work!

Used to joke in the kitchen that I worked in that if we were pressed for time, instead of baking something for an hour at 300°, we can just bake it for 6 minutes at 3,000°. It's such a fun concept and always makes me giggle

and inflation can continue forever! no problems with that at all, the economy is definitely built on money and not a finite supply of resources constrained by entropy.

And then the attached part of this that you mentioned is that the cursed survivors have essentially outcompeted their peers for survival. They're winners of a genetic algorithm whose basis is company data. They have close contact with actual reality, and have been beaten carefully into shape by it. I have kind of a grudging respect for these because of that, actually.

tl;dr read it with friends or drugs, or as a drug. Wild shit.

I was with a group of a couple friends who loved A Thousand Plateaus - we would read bits of it allowed together and laugh and generally have a good time talking about it. Probably the best way to have approached it.

Also on the advice of one of these folks, I read just the intro to ATP and then went for a walk outside without my phone or anything and stared into the woods while that clusterfuck of a concept-tangle just bounced around in my head. Then I slept on it, and later we started doing the group readings. Especially together with Guattari, it's almost more of a hallucinogenic substance than it is a book, and approaching it from all sides with a light heart is somehow helpful. Deleuze really doesn't seem interested in objections in ATP, he just wants to throw another concept at you and see if that one sticks instead.

Philosophize this has been on such a cool track out of western canon and through more mystic/nondual flavored stuff, in a way that builds off of itself. I got Deleuze-pilled a few years ago, and have had fun listening to the whole progression lately. Interesting dovetails with the Alan Watts marathon I did for like a year or two haha

you mean as opposed to going cold turkey? That makes sense! I personally have wondered about something like this for just FB Groups - I want to read my neighborhood buy nothing page, but I don't want a curated attention-grabbing experience in the full app. So I'd love like, an RSS reader for just group posts that let me direct open a post in the app if I wanted to respond.

Like the chips by the checkout in the grocery store, the "path" you have to take into the app requires you to put on horse blinders if you want to complete what you came in for without getting "engaged". It's very tiring if you're at all susceptible to distraction.

this is like putting a wall in front of, or just beyond the edge of, the slippery slope. the need to make an intentional choice or pause before doing the "getting stuck scrolling" behavior is an opportunity for you to catch yourself and see if that's what you really want.

the platform is designed to capitalize on your slip ups in willpower. you can have great impulse control, but can you have it tirelessly, around the clock? this thing is lurking until you slip, as long as you're on it. attention capture is the goal.

It's gonna be a customer service agent for Sirius Cybernetics. Share and enjoy!

Wow, that's really great. Nice level of information and a solid response off the bat. Hopefully Claude catches up to this? In general I've liked Claude pro but this is cool in contrast for sure.

I heard about this the other day! I think I need one.

Teardrop shelving! For the shape of the holes.

Thanks!

Cool. Any specific recs or places to start with him?

This varies wildly with what frequency range you're talking about. Bass region, yes - room geometry makes a big difference. The rest of the range, DSP is your friend. Loudspeakers and Rooms by Floyd Toole is an awesome resource here.

There should be an extremist cult of people who are certain only that uncertainty is the only certain thing

You sound like you'd like the book Seeing like a State.

I keep thinking about the first Avengers movie, when Loki is standing above everyone going "See, is this not your natural state?". There's some perverse security in not getting a choice, and these rationalist frameworks, based in logic, can lead in all kinds of crazy arbitrary directions - powered by nothing more than a refusal to suffer any kind of ambiguity.

The empirical ones do! There's still a healthy sports car element to the scene though, at least in my experience.

In between rules in formal systems there's lots of space. all models are wrong, some are useful. I just really like thinking about how much is there that we don't even know about - and the more structured a system for understanding something is, the more fragile it becomes.

You would like this article - https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/curious-george-and...

The author orders some Curious George stickers and gets a surprising array of kind of scary "closely related" stickers with em.... a fuzzy interpreter. The plus c when you integrate. Those missing harmonics and back-channel data that get inaudibly cut out of MP3s. The goo between the prickles. We don't know how to say what it is, but we sure can tell when it's missing!

this was awesome. people are surprising

So until a majority is reached, it stays a collective action problem that's a loss for anyone who doesn't participate. Apes apart weak.

I actually used to work at a place that had regular power outages because it was remote and ran on hydropower. We had a bunch of old think pads with the think light at the time that were standard staff issue, and they were awesome for working on any technology or system stuff when power was out but wireless was on with the UPSs. Such a cool feature and I do wish they still had it. Along with the locking lids, the 430 and 530s were tanklike.

as though subsurface pilot waves in every spectrum hold human egos as constituent particles - becoming-being lol