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Or Kill Me / Re: A.I. as "God"
« on: April 03, 2013, 04:13:28 am »
My dad joked once that GOD stood for Game Operations Designer
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Or Kill Me / Re: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
« on: April 02, 2013, 05:32:01 pm »
Self-replicating faith based meme like any other. The disease that's cured by religion, etc.
I've been in people's houses who really bought into the 12 step idea and the notion that they are broken, helpless machines that need to be cured and that AA has the answer for them, that they should be ashamed of enjoying something human beings have enjoyed for what? Centuries?
Anyway I've been in a few of their houses and it's kind of unnerving to be honest. Little trinkets and pamphlets and books all over the house bearing slogans of learned helplessness and submission. "THANKS TO A.A I NEVER HAVE ANY BAD FEELINGS... EVER..." - not a literal example, but you get the point. It's just sad.
Addendum: THE 12 STEP MAGIC CURE-ALL:
Step 1. SUBMIT OR DIE
Step 2: SUBMIT OR DIE
Step 3: SUBMIT OR DIE
...
Step 12: SUBMIT OR DIE
I've been in people's houses who really bought into the 12 step idea and the notion that they are broken, helpless machines that need to be cured and that AA has the answer for them, that they should be ashamed of enjoying something human beings have enjoyed for what? Centuries?
Anyway I've been in a few of their houses and it's kind of unnerving to be honest. Little trinkets and pamphlets and books all over the house bearing slogans of learned helplessness and submission. "THANKS TO A.A I NEVER HAVE ANY BAD FEELINGS... EVER..." - not a literal example, but you get the point. It's just sad.
Addendum: THE 12 STEP MAGIC CURE-ALL:
Step 1. SUBMIT OR DIE
Step 2: SUBMIT OR DIE
Step 3: SUBMIT OR DIE
...
Step 12: SUBMIT OR DIE
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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Antifragile
« on: April 02, 2013, 06:36:12 am »
I had an idea once, several years ago while not paying attention in math class, of People As Functions, in the y = 2x sort of way, in that, we receive an input and generate an output - whether that be physical (eat food, make poop) or with memes. It was influenced by the whole Buddhist idea that negative energy continues on forever until someone properly trained makes it into something positive. My brother, also, once remarked that "All we do in life is move things from one place to another."
Anyway the idea of Antifragility seems like a useful one-word idea to remember when one is in need of motivation, resilience or resourcefulness.
My original idea would be relevant in imagining an entity that operates as a function that takes a negative input and turns it into something positive that is added to itself.
It also made me think of muscles and Occam's Razor.
Anyway the idea of Antifragility seems like a useful one-word idea to remember when one is in need of motivation, resilience or resourcefulness.
My original idea would be relevant in imagining an entity that operates as a function that takes a negative input and turns it into something positive that is added to itself.
It also made me think of muscles and Occam's Razor.
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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: A sometimes useful reminder
« on: February 26, 2013, 08:51:50 pm »
So what would some applications of this be?
I mean sure, societies aren't finite, static, clearly defined things, but surely we can observe certain groups to tend toward certain kinds of behavior, and acting out of these norms or "tendencies" to enough of a degree can produce negative consequences. So what's the application? Am I missing the point?
I mean sure, societies aren't finite, static, clearly defined things, but surely we can observe certain groups to tend toward certain kinds of behavior, and acting out of these norms or "tendencies" to enough of a degree can produce negative consequences. So what's the application? Am I missing the point?
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Or Kill Me / Thank A Scientist
« on: August 30, 2012, 02:11:55 am »
We hear a lot in this country that we should thank the vets. Thank a veteran for your freedom! Honk for the troops! Multiple national holidays, etc, etc.
While I appreciate and respect the veterans, what I have possibly never heard is "Thank a scientist." Thank a student of science for your freedoms... It makes sense, right? The freedom to live past thirty? Freedom from a plethora of old-world disease? Freedom to refridgerated food, air conditioning, automobiles, chairs, glass, plumbing, electricity, recorded music, computers, phones, the internet, eyeglasses, hearing aids, lasting teeth, airplanes, hospitals, even (for better or worse) televisions... Thank a student of mechanical engineering, for example, for your doors, cabinets, dresser drawers... Thank an architect for having a shelter to live in at all... Thank a student of science.
Math is soooo boring, though, right? And school is such a waste of time. OMG, let's get drunk this weekend!
-Exit
While I appreciate and respect the veterans, what I have possibly never heard is "Thank a scientist." Thank a student of science for your freedoms... It makes sense, right? The freedom to live past thirty? Freedom from a plethora of old-world disease? Freedom to refridgerated food, air conditioning, automobiles, chairs, glass, plumbing, electricity, recorded music, computers, phones, the internet, eyeglasses, hearing aids, lasting teeth, airplanes, hospitals, even (for better or worse) televisions... Thank a student of mechanical engineering, for example, for your doors, cabinets, dresser drawers... Thank an architect for having a shelter to live in at all... Thank a student of science.
Math is soooo boring, though, right? And school is such a waste of time. OMG, let's get drunk this weekend!
-Exit
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Or Kill Me / Re: Cave Johnson Rants His Guts Up
« on: July 09, 2012, 07:43:40 pm »
I can't figure out how to directly embed video on here. Anyway,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqUpRIe1jyo
remix time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqUpRIe1jyo
remix time
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Or Kill Me / Cave Johnson Rants His Guts Up
« on: July 09, 2012, 02:16:32 am »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM&feature=related
New curse word for every day use:
"LEMONS!"
New curse word for every day use:
"LEMONS!"
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Or Kill Me / The Annexation of Hawai'i
« on: June 23, 2012, 10:29:10 pm »
Some of you may be familiar with this already, I don't know. What I'm posting here is a direct quote from a history textbook, enjoy.
"In Hawai'i's multiracial society, Chinese and Japanese nationalists outnumbered Americans, who represented a mere 2.1 percent of the population. Prominent Americans on the islands organized secret clubs and military units to contest the royal government. In 1887 they forced the king to accept a constitution that allowed foreigners to vote and shifted decision making from the monarchy to the legislature. The same year, Hawai'i granted the United States naval rights to Pearl Harbor. Many native Hawaiians felt that the haole ("foreigners") - especially Americans - were taking their country from them.
The native government was further undermined when the McKinley Tariff of 1890 eliminated the duty-free status of Hawai'i sugar exports in the United States. Suffering declining sugar sales and profits, the American island elite pressed for annexation by the United States, thereby classifying their sugar as domestic. When Princess Lili'uokalani assumed the throne in 1891, she sought to roll back the political power of the haole. The next year, the white oligarchy formed the subversive Annexation Club.
The annexationists struck in January 1890 in collusion with John L. Stevens, America's chief diplomat in Hawai'i, who dispatched troops from the U.S.S Boston to occupy Honolulu. The queen, arrested and confined, surrendered. Rather than yield to the new provisional regime, headed by Sanford B Dole, son of missionaries and a prominent attorney, she relinquished authority to the U.S government. President Benjamin Harrison hurriedly sent an annexation treaty to the Senate.
Sensing foul play, incoming President Grover Cleveland ordered an investigation, which confirmed a conspiracy and noted that most Hawaiians opposed annexation. But when Hawai'i proved a strategic and commercial way station to Asia and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, President William McKinley maneuvered annexation through Congress on July 7, 1898. Under the Organic Act of June 1900, the people of Hawai'i became U.S citizens. Statehood came in 1959."
(Norton, 584)
Basically it sounds like the plot of The Phantom Menace without the happy ending.
"In Hawai'i's multiracial society, Chinese and Japanese nationalists outnumbered Americans, who represented a mere 2.1 percent of the population. Prominent Americans on the islands organized secret clubs and military units to contest the royal government. In 1887 they forced the king to accept a constitution that allowed foreigners to vote and shifted decision making from the monarchy to the legislature. The same year, Hawai'i granted the United States naval rights to Pearl Harbor. Many native Hawaiians felt that the haole ("foreigners") - especially Americans - were taking their country from them.
The native government was further undermined when the McKinley Tariff of 1890 eliminated the duty-free status of Hawai'i sugar exports in the United States. Suffering declining sugar sales and profits, the American island elite pressed for annexation by the United States, thereby classifying their sugar as domestic. When Princess Lili'uokalani assumed the throne in 1891, she sought to roll back the political power of the haole. The next year, the white oligarchy formed the subversive Annexation Club.
The annexationists struck in January 1890 in collusion with John L. Stevens, America's chief diplomat in Hawai'i, who dispatched troops from the U.S.S Boston to occupy Honolulu. The queen, arrested and confined, surrendered. Rather than yield to the new provisional regime, headed by Sanford B Dole, son of missionaries and a prominent attorney, she relinquished authority to the U.S government. President Benjamin Harrison hurriedly sent an annexation treaty to the Senate.
Sensing foul play, incoming President Grover Cleveland ordered an investigation, which confirmed a conspiracy and noted that most Hawaiians opposed annexation. But when Hawai'i proved a strategic and commercial way station to Asia and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, President William McKinley maneuvered annexation through Congress on July 7, 1898. Under the Organic Act of June 1900, the people of Hawai'i became U.S citizens. Statehood came in 1959."
(Norton, 584)
Basically it sounds like the plot of The Phantom Menace without the happy ending.
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Or Kill Me / Re: Something I rushed off
« on: May 31, 2012, 01:02:44 am »
Hopefully an AI would be free of our instinct to be top dog / pack leader.
If we're their programmers then this would be some achievement though.
If we're their programmers then this would be some achievement though.
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Or Kill Me / The Brain Drain
« on: May 12, 2012, 10:31:35 pm »
Hi everybody. First time poster, long time lurker. Wrote a rant, thought I'd make a post. Here goes:
"Would anybody tell me if I was getting... stupider?"
-Faith No More, RV
It's almost like I've been lobotomized. Not all at once, but slowly, discretely over time. Like my brains have been siphoned out the back of my head every night while I slept.
I feel like I can't focus on anything that sounds mathy. As soon as reading material turns techy... fuck, I can't read it. I've gotta skip ahead.
It's intimidating, the idea of new, complex information. Especially if it seems like it might be important. School sucked, didn't it? Education hurts, right? It's awful.
Who is responsible for this? Is it my fault? Was it "them"? What would 15% of this be? I can barely find my way home. These big words hurt my head.
Probably I shouldn't have drank so much as a kid. Maybe I shouldn't spend so much time in front of glowing boxes. Maybe I should have smashed that spider, rather than just ignoring it.
I want to go back and set things right, to do what I should have done a long time ago, but I wonder if it's too late now, if I'm even capable of moving, of looking around. I don't want to turn around to find the spider has grown even bigger than I am.
But I need to know who made me so god damn dumb...
"Would anybody tell me if I was getting... stupider?"
-Faith No More, RV
It's almost like I've been lobotomized. Not all at once, but slowly, discretely over time. Like my brains have been siphoned out the back of my head every night while I slept.
I feel like I can't focus on anything that sounds mathy. As soon as reading material turns techy... fuck, I can't read it. I've gotta skip ahead.
It's intimidating, the idea of new, complex information. Especially if it seems like it might be important. School sucked, didn't it? Education hurts, right? It's awful.
Who is responsible for this? Is it my fault? Was it "them"? What would 15% of this be? I can barely find my way home. These big words hurt my head.
Probably I shouldn't have drank so much as a kid. Maybe I shouldn't spend so much time in front of glowing boxes. Maybe I should have smashed that spider, rather than just ignoring it.
I want to go back and set things right, to do what I should have done a long time ago, but I wonder if it's too late now, if I'm even capable of moving, of looking around. I don't want to turn around to find the spider has grown even bigger than I am.
But I need to know who made me so god damn dumb...
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