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I adamantly reject the belief that some people are inherently better and deserve special treatment by society and before the law because of their ancestry.

This includes all nobility and royalty titles.

Historically and traditionally, nobles are/were the owners of the land. Shoddy job they've done at taking care of the environment. Overpowered by the industrialists, the new ruling hegemonic class (since the aftermath of WWII); who have been clever to stay out of the public view, unlike these historical noble and royal icons.

Ketamine is not a psychedelic (in the hallucinogenic sense)

that's just how cheap they're to make (once you have the factory setup; which isn't cheap)

essentially turning that crytpo into the financial system that the original crypto (bitcoin) was trying to differentiate itself from (or make obsolete, we do not know satoshi's political intentions)

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yes there's a loss, not a monetary/economic loss, but a loss of (potential) power. the fact the loss is "potential" irks me about calling it a 'loss'; it's not quite a loss, but a missed opportunity to leverage more power over.

what's worse, open source has nothing to do with freedom

but it's all about the managed lag.

how else would all those billions in R&D would be worthwhile for investment institutions?

as I see it (and stretching my reasoning), the lag is also part of what maintains the prestige of many academic and research organizations.

the billions in R&D are not all about the outcomes, a lot of them are spent making sure it's really damn hard for any rivals to catch up. how exactly? I cannot know but I can infer it's got a lot to do with having nobody able to see the whole picture, anybody can only know either how to design the chips, xor how to build them.

if everybody is as good as MIT, then MIT is no longer MIT. somebody has got to make sure some of those 3rd party (and far away) institutions stay there, in the back.

if everybody could do "2nm" process (whatever that means), then TSMC wouldn't be ahead of Intel, and so on...

I have failed at words.

> I would rather we try new things.

This is contingent on the capacity of a society to weather any bad outcomes from the new things. which given as they new, their outcomes are unknown.

I'm trying to get to how freedom is related to some kind of background wealth.

If people are (or feel?) wealthy, they're willing to accept risky behavior. Using a example:

"oh, there they go the village idiots burning down a barn..."

--"oh well, at least there's still enough of everything for winter, no problem."

In contrast with: "[...] now we're fucked. time to ration our provisions".

Enter global warming; and with it the rise of autocracies, tyrannies, and so on.

again, on my own very stretchy way of thinking (which involves big leaps in reasoning). you're saying that a company has a right to protect its secrets, but I'm hearing something comparable to (e.g.) "colonialist superpowers have the right to enslave people from Africa". I suppose I may be tuning into a moral ethical-framework from the future when I take 'offense' by the "rightful" actions of companies to keep knowledge bound and locked.

the relation is ideological, cultural (in the sense of being close to the intention of); not direct, causal, material (in the sense of relating to the actual implementation).

they removed the human element from the content. they've focused on the outcomes, the resulting inventions of the scientists and mathematicians. they only teach how to use the techniques, not how they were made.

paving the way (or building a wall) such that few can understand how people came up with that stuff. this is intended. this literally constructs knowledge as power.

The ways of thinking used to come up with the techniques are hidden, restricted. The academics who know the whole story (who know the ending -- which is what is taught, as well as how mathematicians of old came up with such ideas) hold this kind of power.

This gets even more interesting when the academics who know the histories, cannot really use the techniques. then the only people who knew both are historical figures (who get bathed in myth).

I cannot forgive them for this, given as they are still actively doing this. e.g. finding out how they make shredded wheat cereal is not possible [1]; and this must be technology from the early 20th or late 19th centuries... anything more recent is just hopeless.

[1] https://youtu.be/Qx8ovCJ9XPw?t=132

no longer true, a lot of videos have autogenerated captions. so that's a start, it's text, use text ranking techniques.

this is a form of corruption

do you know any textbooks on abstract interpretation?

very interesting...

now add in asset forfeiture driven by legally mandated black markets and the picture is ever so slightly more complete.

interesting... https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-IRS-been-repeatedly-defund...

I'm appaled how the american propaganda machine convinces so many people that they're out there fighting for freedom and for the world. Obviously they have to protect their imperialistic interest in order for their hegemonic mastery over the world to make sense.

Yes, they're not as terrible as some more autocratic and despotic regimes. But it is naive to think that they're not an imperial force who would never commit any attrocities.

Just a remider, the USA government runs guantanamo.

I think taxes stopped making sense since 1971 when the USD became a fully fiat currency.

if the government can print money, what's the point of collecting money through taxes?

fair enough. I can barely put it into words; but I'm still trying.

I'm starting from the viewpoint that the whole point of music is observing the performer do it.

in contrast, the whole point of paiting or a sculping is the final completed artifact.

What I'm trying to get at, is how recording technology "defeats" the purpose of music as its performace; and so, irremediably splits it from it's source (its origin, the composition of the music). I suppose improvisation remains; but highly constrained within prearranged structures (a la "AB[improvisatino goes HERE]C") like in jazz.

I do not understand how hyperpop nor DnB are supposed to be a response to what I'm trying to get at (then again, I'm just now barely conveying my point... I hope.)

yes. I wish I could somehow get to work on a blend between: a decompiler, debugger, emulator, static analyzer, memory profiler, and so on.

The idea being some kind of a runtime for assembly code which does not actually execute the program but allows one to understand it in different sematinc levels, or dunno.. this is a very raw idea. needs a lot of work (and a lot more knowldedge) to set down.

too bad none of the professors that I was able to meet were really interested in this kind of thing

I'm still wating for music to react to recording technology in the way painting reacted to the photographic camera.

what is most interesting to me about bezier curves is how they introduce a 'time' parameter.

referring to how they switch from two coordiates (function arguments) into just the one 'time' argument.

this is most clear in Bartosz Cieachanowski explanation.

then the whole topic gets really going when they add multiple lines all parametrized with the one 'time' argument.

I'm wating for the algorithms to automate all my decision making too.

so me in the future will be an algorithm suggesting what should I buy/eat/etc.. and another which will accept/reject what the former suggests.

this way, I don't have to bother with any of this annoying "life" stuff.

/joking

what is truly flabbergasting is the use and application of trauma induction as a technique by shadowy persons within governments and other "for the science" and later on "for the [your cause of choice], we must use these techniques, lest the rivals use them too and we lose".

traumatized people passing on their traumas. some very clever powerful persons using traumatized people like they use other tools and instruments.

at least have enough courage to admit that 4 teenagers would make you nervous. there's nothing wrong with being alert. teenagers can be dangerous and unpredictable. the dividing line IMO, would be behaving preemptively in such a scenario.

of course it does have to do with walkabale cities.

to walk in a city that is not set-up for walking is clearly an odd thing to do.

if the city were set-up for walking and people walked it, a group of 4 persons walking wouldn't be an oddity

> You don't want to waste time clicking the Rect tool to draw a rectangle

but how long does that really take? maybe it'll be more useful to develop some patience?

also, as we get older, we get slower. I recall watching my dad use a computer with such pause that I found it infuriating. Now (decades later) I find that I now pause sometimes rather than rush because I have so many more things on my mind.

I had this idea that now with all them blockchains, eventually favors will be tracked and traded like any commodity using a blockchain.

in essence, this is just tracking all that is exchanged using technologies.

on one hand, a lot of corruption happens over personal favors between powerful individuals. which makes me think this kind of thing will never take off.

this is part of a larger half-baked idea I had about anybody anywhere being able to 'emit credit'. doing a favor being a way to cash in on their emited credit.. or something like that.