Re-sent the Resentment

October 30, 2024, 11:48 PMOctober 30, 2024, 11:55 PM Chill Rant

That’s true. I am deeply resentful because of and actually fucking hate all the people who spent so long telling me crap like, “You need to learn MATH! No matter what it takes! It’s the FUTUREEEEEEEEE!!!!111” And then making me do so against my will and skill.

Fuck you. Fuck you forever. The best path for me is to have been put in immersive language programs and such from three years old. I could’ve easily been fluent in 15+ languages by the time I was 18. Easily. That is my superpower and if I had been allowed to concentrate on that I would be so dominant none could stand before me. I’m still really good but there’s no replacement for learning stuff like that early — both because your brain is more plastic and because there is just more time.

I deeply to the bottom of my heart loathe, loathe anyone and everyone who made me spend a single fucking second on math instead of what I should’ve been doing. May every last one of you suffer in hell for all time for that sin against me.

Normalization

October 30, 2024, 1:21 PM Chill Rant

At work now, I’m doing a project by myself (in addition to all my other duties) that normally a team of 10-20 people would handle.

And I’m ’bout over it. I mean, I’m really fucking good. I can do it; I’m the equal of 10+ normies on even a bad day. But the question is, do I want to?

Pitch a Fit

October 30, 2024, 12:25 PMOctober 30, 2024, 1:05 PM Chill Clowns, Political Economy

Well that’s one way to do it.

Peony

October 30, 2024, 12:06 PMOctober 30, 2024, 12:07 PM Chill Political Economy

WFH explains probably 60-80% of that. So of course doofclowns want to roll it back. They just can’t stand losing a little power over the peons.

Decouprated

October 30, 2024, 5:35 AMOctober 30, 2024, 5:37 AM Chill Clowns, Politics

Also, anyone who believes that January 6, 2021, was not a coup is a big fucking screaming idiot. Of course it was a coup.

That weren’t no tourist expedition to the Capitol. Jesus Fucking Christ. It was, like most things done by Trump, poorly-executed and cowardly. But it was a coup. And I’d say that even if I supported Trump. Too much clownery for words these days.

Rice Dish

October 30, 2024, 5:08 AMOctober 30, 2024, 9:57 AM Chill Science

Eh, is this some kind of trick question? Or a trick question on yourself? Don’t mean to be dismissive though also don’t really care if I am, but one of the basic tenets of computer science and the deeper math “below” that is that all non-trivial outputs of programs are not determinable without running the program in question. That’s Rice’s Theorem and it’s a generalization of the halting problem first formalized by Alan Turing.

There is not single word for it, I guess. “Undecidability,” perhaps. But Rice’s Theorem and its various proofs are what’s being sought here. There is no possibility of omniscience for us in this realm. You might write the sim, but you still don’t know what it’ll do without setting it in motion and taking a peek. That’s all that is possible (even in principle).

Thousand Times

October 30, 2024, 3:15 AMOctober 30, 2024, 3:16 AM Chill Prediction, Tech

This is correct. The cheaper something becomes, the more there tends to be of that thing. The main effect of AI on bureaucracies and your relation to them is that instead of having 40 pages of paperwork to do, you’ll have 4,000. The AI will fill it all in but you’ll still have to review and correct it all.

And if you think this is not what’s gonna happen…well, prepare to be wrong. It is inevitable.

McClue

October 30, 2024, 1:57 AMOctober 30, 2024, 3:08 AM Chill Gutter Philosophy

In important ways, “reality” TV is more artificial than the scripted alternative. That is because the act of having a camera pointed at you and microphones gathering your every utterance alters your behavior and very thoughts in a way that having a script to guide your words and actions constrains.

Thus, the reality yearned for by viewers is far more illusive than it first appears. Nothing observed remains unaltered, and nothing is revealed by an examination under the condition of surveillance. The artificiality of this simulacrum of reality is assured because the camera itself causes those exposed to it to act like they believe versions of themselves would act in such a situation.

It becomes a simulation all the way down — and up, right on to the viewer, whose reactions also become those of the ones they imagine a viewer like them should have, and would have if the contestants on screen could but observe them too.

Powering

October 30, 2024, 1:15 AMOctober 30, 2024, 1:20 AM Chill Books, Rant

There’s been a spate of “empowering” novels recently about older women having affairs and dalliances with younger men. And I have no problem with this. I put “empowering” in quotes because why is it empowerment when a woman does it, but not when a man does?

It should be equally empowering if you assume that adult women are not children. Mainly I am just tired of prudery and the relationship police. Equality means exactly that. Let’s have women above the age of majority be treated as adults at all times, not exclusively only when it benefits them. That’ll make for a better world for all.