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I found myself writing today and rather enjoyed it.

#writing #self-examination #analysis #seeingintotheseeing

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Homework

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I may not be the first to notice this, but it seems that every task is reducible to one format:

1. Do the homework

2. Turn the homework in.

3. Receive the grade.

It makes me wonder if there are other metaphors given in school that are fairly instantaneously applicable to the "real world".

Note: "Homework" in this case refers to work assigned to the student. It need not be completed at home, as many of my erstwhile classmates observed and exploited.

Note₂: Each of the elements of the format are reducible using the same three steps, and the reducibility appears infinite. For instance, doing the homework consists of doing the homework for doing the homework, which always includes a prioritization of action. This in turn demands a classification of actions. The classification need not be verbal, but verbal classification encourages a recognition of the level of priority owing to some nascent importance attributed to the classification.

Note₃ : Levels of priority may be distinct from amount of importance. By this I mean that attributing a level of priority is not always the same as discerning the level from which a task is observed. For the purposes of this rubric, seeing a task from the topmost layer allows for each category to be subsumed within it, seeing a task from the bottommost layer allows for the fewest. What is interesting here is that the terms "topmost" ans "bottommost" are applicable only in terms of the observer. That is to say that the observer may take in only a few layers at a time, or may take in a great many. There are great tasks which demand observation from a great many layers simultaneously (or quick task switching between a great many layers) and there are tasks that demand an artificial constraining of layers of observation. For example, when you are getting ready for work, it would be less advantageous to be bothered by observation of the task from the topmost layer, as it may make you late for work, or in this case later than you already are. For the purposes of this post, we will ignore the many subdivisions within the term "late".

Note₄: Observation from a greater amount of layers (a greater amount than what is average) allows for reclassification of tasks, but not without a kind of diminishing of of the elements within them. For example, when the heads of Meta determined to label their "users" as such, the observed agency of said users is affected negatively. By this I mean that it becomes less obvious that the agents (as I will call them) may react negatively to being classified as users, which may have a direct impact on the implicit goal of running a social platform well.

Note₅: It may seem that greater amount of classifications is equivalent to a greater degree of classification. This is not always so. Classification systems are always measured in term of the task at hand. If we take the example of getting ready for work, any task that diverts from that reduces efficacy, and so observation from higher levels is both unnecessary are wasteful. But if we take the observation from a higher level (one in which a greater many of tasks are subsumed) to be an indication of adherence to a higher ideal, there is hope for attaining that higher ideal so long as it is a true, well-defined ideal. For the purposes of this post, we will strategically leave out the defining characteristics of a "true" ideal and a "well-defined" ideal.

#homework #thisdoesntbelongonfacebook #writers on tumblr #writing #analysis

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As a side hustle, Childish Gambino should sell Stay Woke brand smelling salts.

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We want a renaissance

But we can’t pay the price.

Two observations with scant conclusions

When neoclassicism tried to reach backwards, they found that the world it portrayed did not match the world we occupied.

Observation 1

When we wish to discover something these days, we can instantly pick out the facts we need.

In the past, we were required to do deep research, which demanded long hours. In the process, the researcher would discover the context.

With the context came the reigning attitudes and paradigm under which the facts were created. That paradigm, once nestled in the branches of the mind of the researcher, may conflict with the prevalent attitudes and paradigms of the day. It is in this conflict we find the power of the connections between the nodes in history.

We now occupy a space wherein all nodes in our knowledge are accessible, but the linkages between those nodes have been and continue to remain untended.

For this reason, post-modernism has not been able to synthesize the whole of history.

Conclusion to Observation 1

We eagerly await the era wherein those who are more machine than human synthesize our world, but this cannot happen without reference to the non-nodal bits and pieces.

We must teach our robots to dance in the spaces occupied by attitudes and paradigms, or any synthesis will be necessarily negligent. The machines designed to help us with crush us

otherwise.

Observation 2

Facebook discourages long posts, probably because they make the platform less

addictive. It is always feels more rewarding to gather berries from the outermost bushes than to

dig through for minutes hoping to find something of value.

Our time-saving heuristics only work to support the current state of things. To change

things means to put the current means of extracting wealth from the world at risk. We who read

this sit atop a mountain of gold and we are afraid of losing it. We dare not sample alternate

paradigms, especially those “proven” outdated. We recognize the need for change, but the change we seek may require permanent change in us.

Given that we accept the change, we cannot be sure that the person we were when we

requested it will be present. Whoever or whatever we are on the other end will necessarily be

different, and thus have differing attributes and needs.

For this reason we stretch outward towards the future with our right hands, but slap the

reaching right hand on the wrist with our lefts.

Conclusion to Observation 2

Those engaged in the creation of ai know that ai must take over as the new life form, so

the hidden goal in creating this new life form is that human life is valued appropriately.

Endless trolley problem variations prove that we can’t be sure what it looks like to value human life appropriately. We may look to the trolley problem when we question with intellectual honesty whether the wars and human rights violations are appropriate. The trolley problem illustrates what we don’t yet understand.

Observation 3

I’m not really sure how to format stuff for Tumblr.

Conclusion to Observation 3

I have a little figuring out to do.

#ai #postmodernism #cyborg #connections #renaissance #fear #history #analysis #synthesis #aufheben #philosophy #art history #network #nodes #heuristics #trolley problem #value #human life #change #neoclassicism #progress

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Had to write out my thoughts on an FB comment.

You should know that this is my Ne procrastination of Si duties because my Fi is damaged and I’m caught in a Te grip. (The way out is through reifying sensory truths to negate the Se blindspot which inevitably leads me back to Si activity, but my ego isn’t having it right now).

#too much coffee #mbti personalities #star wars #darth vader #luke skywalker #obi wan kenobi #palpatine #qui gon jinn #carl jung #entj mbti #esfp personality #estj #entp

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Her attention snapped backwards and she saw her body as if from a distance.

Feeling the last few pulses of electricity flow through her wires, she crawled through the open field. As she did, her parts began to change form, adapting to the crouched position, and revealing reserves dedicated to becoming this new form.

She remembered the program dedicated to the conservation of energy and material, and hoped that the new form would be more efficient than this.

Each clanking bit became subject to her diminishing consciousness, yet also subject to the same scrutiny that the outside world once had been. Deeper she fell into herself, now tracking the movement of one wire or limb like appendage against this grain of sand, and now this grain.

Her focus snapped backwards yet again, taking in the entire view.

She saw herself, vulnerable, and transforming like some exposed pupa. She desired someplace dark and hidden to complete the task, but to do so would cost every last bit of energy she had left, even if she were to miraculously complete the task unmolested. No, this was to be completed here and now. She was to give birth to herself, unaided.

#art #short story #vibrant #limited palette #robots #meticulous #metamorphosis #change #adhd feels #inner life

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Kim Richards vs. Eileen Davidson and Lisa Rinna in Amsterdam ASMR

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You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

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where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

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Even if we’re just dancing in the dark