- An analogy is asking someone who is colorblind how many colors are on a sheet of paper. What you are probing isn't reasoning, it's perception. If you can't see the input, you can't reason about the input.
- This country is so flocked...
How do we come back from this?
It's time to go to your city council meeting and demand they do not use this technology. It was time yesterday.
- Professional nerds are already working on the problem of helping bees pollinate. Their solutions are not that popular yet. https://www.beevt.com/
More professional nerds should be working on keeping bees healthy, but that's probably outside the purview of tech nerds.
- > Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood would probably have a knee-jerk reaction that personhood for a river can/should be normalized.
Three replies now, all saying that this is nonsense (including this one). I would venture to say it's the other way around: if you are okay with a river having 'personhood' then that logically leads to being okay with a group of people having 'personhood'.
Elephants, on the other hand, have a better case for 'personhood' than a river. An elephant has autonomy, is thinking, can feel pain, has emotions... a river has none of these things, nor does a corporation (even if the parts {humans} consisting of a corporation do).
- I have a suspicion that aphantasia - in some cases - is something that can be trained out of. The mind is a powerful thing.
- That's what it's like to 'overlay' imagination onto your vision. But that requires - like the eyes focusing correctly - for the 'imagination vision' and the physical vision to 'line up'
your imagination is more like it's in the the back of the head, yeah?
What helped me 'move' where my imagination was (to the front and center), was to do the flame meditation. Which is to focus on a flame in a dark room for a few seconds, close your eyes, and try to retain the phosphene afterglow in the flame shape. and repeating that until you are able to retain image of the flame while your eyes are closed.
Similarly: 'drawing from memory' - particularly from recent short term memory - was another method that had a profound impact on my ability to visualize.
Both of these take time and commitment, but they have worked for me. They may work for you.
- Perhaps it is a mental process you can train and get better at. I understand the 'back of the head', location for imagination. And now - for me - it's at the front with some specific training. Drawing (and specific techniques within) have been the cause of the biggest shifts to 'where/how' my imagination is.
- Try the crossed eyes 'find the difference' technique. Which is crossing your eyes such that a third image (a blending of the two images: one from each eye) appears between those two images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvdVBzuGWr4
You can easily understand where the difference is because the data is different between the eyes. The difference appears 'ghostly'. In a similar way, data from the mind's eye is different from data from the physical eyes when those two 'streams of data' are blended.
- Some people can project the image of an apple into the real world. As in, they are able to imagine an apple on the table that they see with their eyes. They 'see' it, but see that it's a projection. It's a lot like when you have two very similar images (except one change), and you cross your eyes such that they overlap to highlight the change (it's ghostly, as it's only seen in one eye). Same Idea, only instead of the other eye, that projection is coming from your brain.
- "where" the mind's eye is also variable. And may be moveable.
For a time, my mind's eye was 'on the floor, sideways, behind "my driver seat"'. With some effort, it is now 'in front' of me, closer than where my vision is, occupying some space between where my vision is, and where I perceive my sense of self to be.
The efforts were a combination of trataka flame training, training to remain conscious through the process of falling asleep (for lucid dreaming), and drawing (seeing an image, quickly memorizing it, and drawing it from the mind's eye projection {as in, literally trying to see the image on the blank page without access to the reference image}).
- > As the sequence as a whole gets larger, the run length needed to end it also gets longer, and thus the probability gets smaller. The result should be something like a geometric sequence with a finite sum.
This is true.
But it would still halt. Infinity is weird like that. To be clear, I mean the sequence of coin flips where the total value of heads/tails is 2:1.
The probability of having a 2:1 ratio of heads/tails - at some point - in an infinite sequence of fair flips is 1, is it not?
The anti-hydra may have a bias, and only if that bias is against the halt condition do we have a case where we can conclude that the anti-hydra does not halt.
- The Antihydra will halt if:
The sequence is (truly/fairly) random in its distribution of mods 1/2.
Even fair coins flipped infinitely would - on occasion - have arbitrary long results of heads or tails.
So the question becomes, is the anti-hydra sequence 'sufficiently' random?
- > only way to dissipate heat is thermal radiation
Well, besides ejecting the heat as propellent (probably water?).
Thermal radiation is probably the best way, propellent runs out eventually.
- Maybe a randomized walk is the optimal healing algorithm barring any directive force? A local maximum. It can use the endocrine signaling though... and other directive signaling. So maybe those wear with time?
Maybe not just any electric signal will do, maybe frequency and amplitude are a factor as well. A 'healing signal'.
Curious research. We'll see what becomes of it.
- > There clearly are processes, like oscillations, that require material to some extent, but are not material themselves. And that's the problem with the materialist camp. If the oscillations, dynamically integrated, are the source of intel/consciousness, then material may not even be a requirement of life. We may just be material sinks.
I understand.
There is a however a flaw in that thinking.
There is no oscillation that exists outside of some material/medium to oscillate. I agree it is important to distinguish the water from the wave. There is no light wave without the photon. Thus - I strongly suspect - there is no consciousness without the brain (or similar medium).
- Cutting costs are not inherently good.
Junk food can be cheaper than healthy food, it's not good to save on money now at the cost of spending thousands on medical care and insulin in the future.
Or to paraphrase Terry Pratchett: "boots at $10 dollars that last a month are more expensive than $50 dollar boots that last a year" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
It's the difference between being cheap and being frugal...
There's also the allegation that Elon's Doge cuts were to prevent various agencies from pursuing legal action against him.
- Censorship is a tool to combat misinformation.
It's taking a sword to the surgery room where no scalpel has been invented yet.
We need better tools to combat dis/mis-information.
I wish I knew what that tool was.
Maybe 'inoculating information' that's specifically stickier than the dis/mis-info?
- One-shot prompting: agreed.
Using a node based workflow with comfyUI, also being able to draw, also being able to train on your own images in a lora, and effectively using control nets and masks: different story...
I see, in the near future, a workflow by artists, where they themselves draw a sketch, with composition information, then use that as a base for 'rendering' the image drawn, with clean up with masking and hand drawing. lowering the time to output images.
Commercial artists will be competing, on many aspects that have nothing to do with the quality of their art itself. One of those factors is speed, and quantity. Other non-artistic aspects artists compete with are marketing, sales and attention.
Just like the artisan weavers back in the day were competing with inferior quality automatic loom machines. Focusing on quality over all others misses what it means to be in a society and meeting the needs of society.
Sometimes good enough is better than the best if it's more accessible/cheaper.
I see no such tooling a-la comfyUI available for text generation... everyone seems to be reliant on one-shot-ting results in that space.
- > They can't buy up enough small players to make it work.
We just don't have the data to track that. KKR, Blackstone, and Bain Capital, all buy up small time contractors, as well as real estate. They absolutely have the money to bully their way using that strategy. We don't know for sure if that's what they are doing or not... but as you agree: That goal makes sense.
> Anybody can write a book that sounds good.
Not everyone can write a book both sound and logical, agreed. That is to say, a well researched book is rare indeed.
It is biased, yes: it is very anti-landlord. It views a landlord as inherently extractive, and makes the case for that viewpoint.
To say that the book is not worth reading is also incorrect. It has some fantastic insights unrelated to its anti-landlord bias and it is an interesting read.
And yes: you shouldn't just trust what you read. Ever.
Regardless of it's flaws, I still recommend it as a read.
This assumes the colorblind person both believes it is true that they are colorblind, in a world where that can be verified, and possesses tools to overcome these limitations.
You have to be much more clever to 'see' an atom before the invention of a microscope, if the tool doesn't exist: most of the time you are SOL.