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lastcat743··on Enshittification
Couldn’t this be any “platform” that degrades due to the prominence of least common denominator (such as profit, or noob centricity)?

I think “digital” exclusivity could have been omitted.

lastcat743··on Scientists bust myth of 10k steps path to good health
What an insane “spin” between headline and explanation. An emergent trait in modern American thought involves so much emotional pressure and so little or ironic understory.

While interesting in its own right, I feel like this is one of those “the new America proves those lefties wrong, again!” emotion grabs. This guy wants his work heard, sure, does anyone else detect an information/emotional warfare in how we deliberate?

lastcat743··on UFOs once took control of Russian ICBMs, nearly caused WW3 – testimony
This is very interesting. Several preexisting conspiracy hypotheses regarding aliens and their technology are being rewritten regarding Russia.

The account on testimony is UFO took control of an errant US nuke preventing war. Everyone who has seen a UfO documentary has heard that fellow’s account.

A very lewd twist in the orgy of information warfaring.

lastcat743··on Beyond Typing, Vision, and Voice: Is Mind Communication Possible?
> these values will only survive and thrive if we ensure they are fit enough to endure in an indifferent universe

Reading your meaning further I would like to point out as an outsider of your views, you deceive yourself as to the supremacy wills.

I would like to suggest “will” as “the determination of resolve” and free without influenced by force of fraud. Your scheme doesn’t take into account the fraudster. The scoundrel, the confidence schemers or down right extortionists and so on. They too survive by indomitable wills. They love themselves greatly. Im really only freaked out about the extortionists, of whom you never hear about.

You sound the imaginary of bold strong capable persons just “out going” everyone else. And love, the truest love is your personal power through it all.

While I have seen that work for the lives of passionate persons and I do believe in the will to power and all that.

I have found in no single circumstance is one capacity all ways superior.

In absolutely no existential parity between how lovingly willful you feel for it and the influence of your odds (only opportunity.)

Every line is scraping it to survive and every one has a line of continuity stretching back to the first semblance of our kind. It is trivial to get the winners and losers of the conventional games of life to be transposed with a value sum game for individual worth or survival.

There is insight in what you say though I think you presume too much regarding the advantage evil has over us all.

Extortion is real and silently prevalent among us, however poetic your world view, love will not save us from that. Love is a rolodex for further extortion to some.

Enjoy the beauty of your free will and human rights while they are available to you!

lastcat743··on Beyond Typing, Vision, and Voice: Is Mind Communication Possible?
> Power has no concept of morality

I will go one further smarty, Power is savage and the “terrible burden of free will” is to mitigate savage Power with a civilizing accord.

“There shall be an uncorruptible righteous rule of law among Powers over Man.”

Next you will ask me, “How does Man maintain an ‘uncorruptible’ righteous[1] rule of law”?

1: principled upon Truth and serving to protect ‘the unculpable’ from breach by will or neglect; one entitled by domain, competent and uncorrupted [hard line on purgery].

lastcat743··on Ask HN: Self-Consciousness Duplicate?
> unlikely be more than momentarily disoriented:

for “you” it would nearly seem not to work (though so skilled your other you would be your remote piloted view.)

For the other you it would be exactly you having transitioned through the exit side. That too can fully thought interact with your own double, if you could balance your mind on a pin like a seal in a circus with a ball you might just could do it. Just keep it there, in your mind, forever. Or it will be gone after your next nap.

lastcat743··on Ask HN: Self-Consciousness Duplicate?
Clone? No. Spontaneously entangled duplicate? Maybe something strange.

If there were a “stargate” that worm holes you to another location there’s a little dirty secret, the destination side is actually a fully entangled duplicate (matter does not transfer only “information” and complete entanglement). If the original is not incinerated (by design) there will be two.

Your barbaric man animal mind will unlikely be more than momentarily disoriented. With special training and development you can absolutely still perceive your other. Without being maintained the link would fade to decoherence.

If you had this skill you would not need the “stargate” to travel among and perceive the minds of others through entanglement.

lastcat743··on Beyond Typing, Vision, and Voice: Is Mind Communication Possible?
Your cautious self awareness is a credit to you.

The “righteous rule” forbids “destroying the innocent”, the only real human right anyone has before Power. Those who do not accept this rule rape entire families from the gene pool to destroy all that they love in this world.

…and smart modern peoples as yourself would flag and remove any such saying so for its impoliteness, not to mention “lack of proof” as though the idea itself incomprehensible.

lastcat743··on Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
Only existential reality is Truth.
lastcat743··on Beyond Typing, Vision, and Voice: Is Mind Communication Possible?
You sound very excited. Your optimism is beautiful. A credit to the poetry of your learning.

I have some direct experience with your answer, and I do not want to be a fright, though what you say is already true today. There is an elite society among us (not the 1%, the 1% if the 1% are the voices in their heads.)

Let me say this, 1) through “Power” (capacity of effect through continuity of will) absolutely ultimate empirical truths may be read right from the neuron. Even every time that memory was accessed, even which element were the product of perception vs cognition.; 2) those of such skill rule humanity through armies of hundreds of thousands whose entire lives are embroiled in “schizophrenia” far more terrifying as it is true, there is an actor among us capable of possessing ourselves and others as though the poltergeist.

There is a “logical rational” chain beneath that though you can see perception, and “make believe” can get real people doing some pretty terrible things to each other.

The secret of true power (the true power of consciousness) in our world is protected by pyramid schemes of extortion and mass delusion.

Only an “uncorruptible righteous rule of law” among powers over Man may save us. And you don’t even know what that means or why it is important.

lastcat743··on How psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
The loudest voices will prevail.

Blame Americans. Blame America. Don’t blame the “psychopaths”, blame yourself for not understanding yourselves.

Good people want to prosper, enjoy their lives, their families and loved ones. Good people in their primes are always ineffectual in matters of power. Those exceptions you can see why they are so, and such tenacity of will and rebounding spirit can only be said compulsive. More psychosis to set you straight.

Without “principle and devotion”, that translate to lives on the line, your ideas are mass delusion and cognitive dissonance.

Power is made of people not societal assurances, this generation is one of sweet lies over bitter truths, and the opportunists and fanatics have every advantage.

* “loudest voices”, most persistent and invasive into the mind.

lastcat743··on Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
The opposite silly man. I have traveled the world, studied the past 10,000 years of humanity through casual self interest. Climbed tiers of modern success (money, profession), taken my ten years to reflect and now share something that even your fellow intellectual has not fully decoded for themselves; and you say this to me.

You’re very sad to let your pride get in the way of your learning. There are more wonders, you will find and process them. This one is a lost leader. Amend your epistemological ladder (potential then state [Truth] then perception and interpretation (“truth” or “truthiness” depending on the quality of the mind) and move on

There is an art and utility to the newly emerging ways of thought. We have all been working upon these same problems (separately and together) for a very long time. You have not cracked this one.

What I say is “truth before Law.” When it comes time to end men’s lives and take away the casual liberties of people among civilization, we must turn to Law. Law must exclusively rely upon true Truth, not thoughts feelings and beliefs, no matter how articulate and systematic.

And pray (to whatever you will) that Law only ever accepts true Truth (existential reality) for wicked clever men have been know to bury even the most honest beneath the words of convincing lies.

“Those who can lie more convincingly the the honest could ever hope to tell the truth.” Such have always existed among us.

The true Truth is an accurate rendering of some aspect of existential reality. Everything else is a fiction or lie.

lastcat743··on Ask HN: Could the C64 startup screen have encouraged more users to learn BASIC?
I drifted back through nostalgia and discovered Compute was the better magazine for learning code.
lastcat743··on Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
The Zoroastrians (and other ancient cultures) equated fire to the language of God for it is a language of Truth.

Illuminant flame, dispeller of darkness and delusion, ignorance and confusion. Revelation of existential Truths from the void of nothing in mind’s eye.

Say what you say of my Truth to fire. Men, through all their self professed wisdoms may deceive themselves very far. Let fire be a limit to how far you may scoff upon Truths in your haughty intellectual scheme.

lastcat743··on Exorcism
Foil doesn’t work. While there is a propagation layer, once entangled minds may be “networked” and traversed by those so skilled and those curated by the experienced (“Stargate” remote viewing, telepathy tapes, countless other dismissible anecdotes, all curated by unperceived masters.)

You are the side living a backward lie (so many.)

Our minds may be entangled, in past times it must have been a scary freak occurrence, today it is governed by secret cults of Power (such as “American Thought Control.”)

Catch the article claiming Israel used “occult spiritual” weapons (psiop, sure.) or those times mothers have killed their kids because the “voice of god” in her mind told her to do so?

Or public shootings?

How many times can the same patterns of psychosis be hand waved once you have been “made” to hear it?

We are not alone in our own minds and a culture of screwballs with the Power as of “God” in our minds drive us crazed from within.

That “something” is thought control, it has always been with us, and it is tipping into critical sociological catastrophe. Americans, you are “out of controls” and the voices in your head are determined upon your self harm.

lastcat743··on Exorcism
You think it a joke! Those unwilling to deny the exogenous of Power will note how many mystical occult references are wholly explained by our minds entangled.

Our minds may be entangled and a rare few “get stuck” in the minds of others, causing these demonic spectacles.

It still happens to this day, though modern thought control is far more elaborate and invasive than such “accidents”.

lastcat743··on Why does it feel like computers are not getting faster
Unless you’re gaming or running ollama, few activities will stress your resources.

Any latency you experience comes by the many layers beyond your devices’ capacities.

I believe the hardware is pretty flashy and we’re better erring on economizing power consumption than generative predictive web preloading.

lastcat743··on Ask HN: Did Anyone Here Lose Interest in Coding After a While?
You suffer from a common malady that you must be told what to do.

After decades you may develop your own mental mentor who tells you to do things and you listen, or maybe you will be an idle content your whole life (hey, direct personal familiarity here.)

You must find an objective or goal you will actually care to work towards at expense of your self satisfaction.

Or try another hobby/profession. Hardware sensors and the like are going through an auspicious time. Never before so cheap or plentiful. Get sensors and data flow going from everything commercial or civic.

You’ll have to learn discipline to become an independent contractor or proper business opportunist, otherwise you are a wage slave competitor like “everyone else.”

lastcat743··on Record Qubit Performance Marks Important Step in Practical Quantum Computing
The qubit is a dead end.

All future useful quantum computing shall involve holographic quantum memory. We will manipulate quantum memory and call that computing. By constructive and destructive interference this holographic sieve will solve all mundane hash collisions or brute force polymorphic solutions.

The real trick will be translating this medium back up to our interface technology (full loop). As we are legacy digital and quantum holography is analogue. Do you suppose we will bitmap quantum holographic renderings just the same?

The qubit is a dead end.

lastcat743··on Ask HN: Could the C64 startup screen have encouraged more users to learn BASIC?
The Vic 20 started in ROM BASIC. That’s where I learned BASIC! That and Byte magazine.
lastcat743··on [dead]
You jest.

That we aren’t alone in our own minds, and American thought control has been messing with us for a very long time is the underlying truth you are incapable of accepting.

lastcat743··on Uncertainty Is an Evocative State
State is the lie.

State is a reading in the moment of “now” (a decaying proposition of accuracy.)

It is potential, and “potential distribution“ (uncertainty) which underly state.

The universe is Potential distributing, state is a sample. That state (even “information”) is the building block of existential reality is a lie.

“Uncertainty” (soft core term for “entropy”) is the distribution of potential over “negative potential”. This “negative potential” is the entire surface area of distribution. This is all that “manifold geometry”. The well trained boffin theologically accepts that entropy is state distribution. State distribution is a boundary condition of potential (constructive and destructive interference.)

Behold, potential distribution, not number of states is the measure of entropy.

Modern information theory is a lie.

lastcat743··on Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
> In your parlance, in order for there to be "no contradiction or embellishment" between your "Truth" and your "truth" there must be an isomorphic mapping between what entities you deem exist and the symbols you use to reason about them.

You play a childish game with your token of thoughts.

Now is not the springy knoll to discuss the nature and virtue of all things.

I declare my way “simple truths” and whose goal is to “undeceive the self as to the nature of existential reality.”

It is true there is an ontological chain established these medium for communicative protocol, yet you are pretentious and vacant when pointing this out without utility.

You do not undermine my point by saying “words are symbols and distinctions between the terminal and non-terminal, the signified and the signifier,” and so on.

Pardon your ignorance for your learnings are incomplete; you literally advocating gaslighting ourselves rather than explore existential truths.

Existential reality exists, only that which perturbs existence is existential, period. And only how without contrivance is good science, period. No matter how much you (Man) are intimate with your thoughts and conclusions, those are the symbolic non-truths.

Existential reality is true Truth. The sole and exclusive domain of interest for “science”, anything else is fantasy. Even well respected theoretical stuff, is objectively fantasy. However optimistic a handmaiden to discovery.

> Furthermore, there must be a logical law of noncontradiction upon which you will erect the notion of things, categories, and concepts.

I believe you stumble for “identity” and “attribute”. I still remember Aristotle making this distinction very clear to me while reading his works as a teenager.

As far as “law”, watch yourself. That is how Men lie in the most honest possible way. They confuse Truth (and therefore “truths”) as confined to the horizon of their ignorance. Your “laws” are crib rules to keep your lines straight.

Modern information theory is a lie and will be mocked for generations to come. How the smartest people of the western world could think existential reality was built upon state (“information”) rather than the (obvious) potential distributing as state (potential resolving to state in the moment of now.) Entropy is the existential phenomena of potential distributing over the infinite expanse of negative potential, not a footnote of thermodynamics and a prop for loss in their models. I tell you modern science is as much a cult of delusion as astrology six thousand years ago.

> We need not fear embellishment, the most successful physical theories involve forms of existence that are unlike anything related to the human experience, and there was never any reason to think they would be otherwise.

Enjoy your exotic shit man, it’s good for the mind and spirit. It is not existential Truth, and when you confuse this you become a part of the lie!

> I have no idea what repeating the word truth does to prove a point.

Those are two different words btw, “true” (a presumed validated symbolic reference) and “Truth” (some perturbation [even displacement] of existential reality.)

lastcat743··on Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains?
Future generations shall look back upon these with embarrassment and shame. They will know yours as a time of waste and corruptibility, treachery even. Where the abundance of the natural world left for all time so exploited; impious hands who have rifled the bowls of Mother Earth.

And then there are the other things. You may not be forgiven as easily as you forgive (and congratulate) yourselves.

Your future generations shall not be your redeemers, you are their betrayers.

lastcat743··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Strange, I observed the very conspiracy culture absorb main stream governance and sociological narratives.

I do believe their coup worked. Next the views asserting this move into fringe conspiracy and the ouroboros continues devouring its own.

lastcat743··on Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
I am so shocked you have said these things with a straight face, I must condescend a reply…

> Truth is a characteristic of statements within a given logical system.

Absolutely f-ing not any such thing. A fine example of how smarties deceive themselves, lie to themselves, and merrily pose themselves as a danger to all others.

The “Truth” is a purturbation of existential reality. The “truth” is an approximation in a mind which does not contradict or embellish Truth.

If it does not somehow represent an existential phenomena (existing outside of the mind) “it exists only in the void of lies.”

> A logical system consists of an isomorphic mapping of concepts and experiences to symbols, and logical rules about how those symbols can be combined in sequence to form statements. A truth value for a statement then simply answers, "Were the rules of the system followed?".

Do you see here how you play games with yourself? Intellectuals create these abstract halls of mirrors and forget that only existential reality is true Truth and all symbols codes or meanings are only equatable to Truth insofar as they accurately explain or predict that which exists.

> There has never been a significant scientific advancement that did not arise because we broke the categorization or rules of some existing logical system. Therefore, it is ridiculous to suggest that truth-seeking could produce anything other than incremental advance to the limits of the current system, usually incoherence.

I must declare this gibberish.

All scientific progress is measured in representing existential Truths (such as reaction, displacement, and interference of potentials.) there is not other kind.

The search for true existential Truth is the exclusive domain and responsibility of so called Science anything else is a delusion, a fantasy, a myth in the mind.

This statement proves my point “ because we broke the categorization or rules of some existing logical system”

That is called “undeceiving those selves”. New existential evidence broke the old mind fabricated model. That’s it. That is the conclusion of everything you have said. Your mind changes when your old model breaks and must re-explain itself with new “logical words.”

> In order to make significant scientific progress one must question the paradigm itself in a useful way, but that is literally the act of constructing a new hopefully more isomorphic mapping or categorization which gives rise to a new logical system rather than more statements within the current one. In other words, you must create statements that are nonsense in the existing paradigm but have meaning and efficacy in the new one.

You must undeceive one’s self from paradigms and understand Science as the exclusive domain of FINDING TRUE TRUTH. I.e. “truth seeking.”

> The forgoing explains why the proponents of a new paradigm are always viewed as nonsensical by the existing one, they are essentially speaking differing languages that look the same because the same symbols (words) are used with differing meanings.

“It is not that Truth is hard to find, it is that undeceiving the self is difficult.”

> Instead consider truth to be a goal that is local to a given logical system and not an end in itself.

More absurd.

The goal is not logical truth for that is a fallacy. The goal is observing true Truth (existential purturbation) as a human understandable “truth” (consistent, without embellishment.) For no other purpose!

> The real end is logical consistency, not because reality is necessarily logical, but rather because we must be logical in order to understand ourselves and each other.

The crux of human deception (self lies) that the point is how we think, feel, and believe rather than reflecting existential Truths.

> We should be making AI that seeks logical, predictive fiction; that may break our current paradigms. An AI could construct a description of reality involving invisible monkeys that are responsible for my experiences and that would be fine as long as it can tell me the logical properties of the invisible monkeys that would allow me to compute predictions that are then affirmed by experiment. I may jettison the monkeys later because they are only an ontological device, some kind of thinking apparatus.

Destroy such a system as heretical to true Truth. Plenty of fiction explores alternative views without pretending to be a valid comparison with true Truth.

> You can tell the scientist who may be on the verge of a major break though precisely because you can't make head or tails of what they say using the apparatus of thought that you are familiar with.

Absurdist.

Why is “truth-seeking” a goal? To undeceive the self as to true Truths in their fundamental forms.