Arguably without “consciousness” in general the universe would spring into being, spin about, and die out in a tragic heat death and no one would ever notice.
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Is programming a way to survive and you’ve found yourself mixed up in it, or are you having self doubts about something you admire and determine for yourself?
Persistence is crucial, even for geniuses (I’ve been programming since child hood. vic-20 childhood.)
Will you loose days of sleep to save your ass after not putting your nose to the grind sooner?
Will you learn the true secret of masters, that someone else has likely solved your problem and you merely need to “adapt” it to your situation?
Will you get the job done, and stop being a part of the run around?
Computation is after all about results.
If these things you may be a programmer after all, however modest your present circumstance.
A worth while mention out of print (truly inspirational and excellent quality production)
Modern Farmer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Farmer_(magazine)
And if you have obtainium, there’s Jane’s Defense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane's_Defence_Weekly
If everyone could deliver from spec without hand holding, meetings would be unnecessary.
White hate is a well organized American power cult wearing conservatism and nationalism as a familiar costume.
These retellings of the narrative are insidious pathological lies.
The problem isn’t democrat or republican, it is thought controlled American.
If the government wants to avoid a military recruiting crisis, politicians should not be so careless with their lives.
Firstly, it’s a talkative charming idiot. Did I mention pathological lier? We are going to start learning a lot more about our own awareness and expectations as the cognitive deficiencies of this approach are weighed.
All that said, it does generate some really nice starter content. If more creative processes use it as a sound board, this may be the cure for writers block, and spice up “back ground” material throughout.
More work needs doing, though as a true decision support system this whole approach may prove problematic.
I’m not all in on string theory, though it is apparent potential is bound (by spin) into discrete packets (particles) in either stable form (matter) or radiant (the other stuff.)
These are all “the same stuff”, which through displacement (potential cannot exist in the same proximity without interference) gives rise to discrete state and the existential universe we all know and love.
Okay, physicists say they don’t exist. Thanks.
The Universe isn’t a thing (state or collection of states.) the universe is the potential of all existence, which resolves into state in the moment of NOW.
This continuous collapse in the moment of now gives rise to the state of the universe.
Entanglement demonstrated there is an underlying aspect of existence (universal potential) of which space time emerges rather than the other way around.
Universal potential exists outside of space time. Space time is a manifestation of universal potential.
If we relate to string theory, we could say universal potential is a ~ten/eleven dimensional vibration of potential, of which time and space is an extrapolation.
Existence still exists. Objective Reality is the manifest form (state’s collapse) of universal potential in the moment of now (the only moment which truly exists.)
What we think of as existence and potential needs work. Thanks for keeping at it physicists!
As true power is “the capacity for effect” (if it is not effective, it is not powerful); listening and communicating well makes you more effective as a human being at everything, even when to keep one’s mouth shut!
Better relationships, higher quality personal and professional conversations, are only beginnings.
Do not be one of these people who only think in terms of the utility of others. Being a charming douche isn’t an “improvement”. Listening and communicating well are a qualitative human skill, not just “useful.”
The question you might ask is “what intelligent behaviors do we need?”
I think modern ML is suitable for building a tricorder like devices. Color test paint, check wear through resonance, interpret x-rays or infra-red patterns.
A self balancing hammer?
Novelty in application is endless. Knowing what you want before seeing it is hard.
Making someone do something is far more effective than waiting for someone to be comfortable doing so.
Over their lives, each student will have their own struggles, and each having familiarities with cognitive styles will make students more prepared learners. (I wish I had been formally taught mnemonics.)
Learning to make yourself do things you do not want to do is the ultimate hand craft of self development.
Enlightened ascendant being here, I have some perspective for you …
In the beginning, there is the discovery of meanings, then the self while at the same time the self relationships with everyone and everything else …
And then, for those aspiring or just damn lucky, a glimmering ray of light penetrates the monotonous gloom.
A meaning beyond self worthy of devotion.
This may rise or fall, be ever lasting or a series of elevated epiphanies, However without question the ultimate fulfillment of existential being is …
TO GO BEYOND SELF
TO BE MORE THAN THE SELF
To make consequences of your life out to be more than the sum of consumptive waste keeping you alive.
This is the ultimate human endeavor.
Btw, your self excellence comes by decades of determination, not a few years here and there.
Keep it in the ground unless emergency.
I don’t refer to this instance when I say in general; rail against these hypocritical pundits calling themselves conservative who cannot conserve.
Start talking about how wasteful we are with resources while we scrounge those up for our imminent needs.
Use what you need, don’t be a waste!
Look back through history, and you will find most great works are the reprocessing of time honored classics for modern consumption.
Cultural appropriation is how civilizations thrive, remix, and invigorate themselves.
Let’s look at a few literary traditions:
Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Milton, Hess, Nietzsche, … Tolkien, and so on to name a few.
Those popularized are so silly and have such absurd influence you forget that one way or another THERE IS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST YOUR NATURAL DESTINIES. Either something is wrong with the nebulous opaque system of power in the world, or these people are STIRRED UP AS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST YOU!
Your government is corruptible and incompetent.
The populous is a mob of the ignorant and confused.
You know your media is manipulated, you know special interests are more influential than public dialogue, you know there are haters out there willing to undermine and exploit others for their own interests.
Stop rationalizing to yourselves that there aren’t conspiracies, or that everything is fine.
We live in such a way that it takes TEN YEARS to see the consequences of policies or notable events of the world.
Population density breeds disease and parasites (of the biological kind.)
Population out of balance with resources is a systemic corruption that living strategies resolve dynamically through time.
Corruption comes by parasites and perversion. In humanity’s case a power (and off hand willingness) to harm greater than accountability.
Comfort, convenience, complicity fine, yet draw the line at collusion or negligence.
Everyone is always ready to flair up at the government, when these are only ephemeral bodies of individuals.
Humans are corruptible with treacherous hearts.
The government couldn’t really do enough to protect us from each other, yet through the veil of modern civility we have little foreboding of one and other and such a suspicion for the body of governance made in our own image.
It’s hard to talk about the greatest crises of our world when you cannot convince a know-it-all american their modern living is built upon a lie incomprehensible to ordinary minds.
We just went through these last “fake news conspiracy” years with the outcome of convincing yourselves that all conspiracies are crazy talk and the conventional narratives capture truth.
There is a conspiracy against your natural destinies, and thought control is more than brain washing.
Screwing with your mind has modernized, these ideas of “brainwashing” are antiquated and miss all practical tells.
Categories by these impractical degrees of energy usage and consumption?
Wtf?
Alternate scale of technology:
Mastery of physical reality. Able to manipulate and transmute physical reality.
True fusion, able to collect and parse the gamma ray product into usable power.
True Spacefaring, capable of indefinite habitation in space (foolish humans think you have to go somewhere, merely existing in perpetual habitable comfort is a technological leap.)
Biotechnology, mastery of living systems and the technology of life.
Consciousness as a technology. Faster than light communications, manipulating tools and tech through the mind.
The enemy is definitely in America, though these programs funding domestic safe houses and off book training facilities (with “detention” licenses, so .. private prison) are funding that enemy, not protecting us from one.
I put that the LV shooting used munitions paid for by the US government, out of a white hate run private domestic safe house. Someone must have cut their funding.
The bullets were government, bought in Phoenix. Smoking freakin gun suckers, and do you know about it?
It’s not a conspiracy theory to say we’re screwed.
REIGN IN URBAN SPRAWL!
And for fcuk’s sake Americans, have you ever considered CONSERVING WATER?
Here’s what worked for me…
In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.
Success is a function of persistence, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, application, willfulness, doing it. Do not forget that.
Everyone is a pathological lier, stop listening to whoever the hell that is.
Simple truths, no matter how boring or unpopular are better in the long run than made-to-believe, whatever it pays.
Oh, and do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it. If you haven’t noticed, everything else is over leveraged.
Anything the wider public is not prepared to accept may be slurred as occultist, and you should know disparaging talk is the surviving side of the discussion.
I’m not advocating the harming of animals (certainly not mates) yet the underlying intrigue remains.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_comp...
This is all quaint and dated.
The joke is on you, thought control is real and you’re already mixed up in it.
I recently got a new laptop with 4x faster processor and 64GB RAM (just had to have it.)
My experience is speedy sure yet blah.
I passed up a slightly slower lighter model with less ram (granted we’re talking about 40GB now) yet charged with 65w USB-C and 12 hour battery (rather than ~8hr and conventional charger.)
I only wish I payed a little MORE for the 12 hour battery and less RAM!
8GB is fine! Don’t put yourself out for more RAM unless that is what you need.
My games (mostly open source or legacy)
Remnants of the Precursors
7 Kingdoms
Warzone 2100 (steam version is broken, native works great through steam)
The Ur-Quan Masters (Awkward install through bottles)
Wizardry 6 (through steam)
Wizardry 7 (through steam)
There are many more playable old school open source games one can install through desktop (and play through steam app for full controller immersion.)