probability engines
some of them are fuelled with the throw of die
others are more complex
most popular are ones
which ...
the central idea is that some probabilities have to happen at some place to curve out the graph
so, if you find an un-developed portion of space
you can generate the probability
and manifest the space and time there
of course, maps keep going dark as and when you stop looking at them
as a strain, we are a colonising variety
after husbanding cattle, and poultry, man quickly progressed to colonising .... mankind itself
older religions have a goal of self-realisation,
modern religions cultivate human societies like a garden, a field, a herd
calling your adherents (victims) sheep gives the game away
and is an in-your-face kind of arrogance
Dear Thanos,
The candidates for Spectacular Lack of Common Sense have been announced, and we are pleased to let you know that you are in the top in the running . On hearing about your snap-kill-half exercise, our judges got so energised as to write down the following -
a) world population would reach its current levels within one iteration of the snap - you aren't affecting birth rates.
b) inaccuracy and imprecision - what if the snap killed a bus driver or a pilot piloting a plane across the Atlantic ? it wouldn't be a fair half-half chance, a lot more people would die flaming deaths than calculated for .
c) killing half the civilised technical world would have terrible repercussions more than killing half the rest. Resulting plagues would wipe out more people than you could imagine.
d) if you had all those hocusy-pocusy coloured stones, why not make more food , or make humans colonise more planets ? I agree, putting right ideas into human heads is an uphill battle, but still, why not transport half of them to some other planet which has life ... ?
e) we can't get over this one - the western world is heavily mechanised. Randomly making people vanish would ensure that large machines would go careening around , smushing out innocent bystanders left and right - think runaway trains, cars carroming into each other on the high way, cranes dropping loads, ships running aground , etc etc
f) we'll be back
me: hi, how are you doing
me: great ! thanks for asking
the Benjamin finance guy video on pirates, and r/wallstreetbets greats videos
accented cinema's review of old mulan vs new mulan
asianometry's videos on japan, korea, philippines, taiwan ....
why is academia left-leaning ?
I haven't watched this video by the very awesome Adam Something, but I can attempt a two line answer combining an old adage and a T.Kaczynsky idea -
- those who can, do ; those who can't, teach
- the left is about people who cannot 'do', and therefore have to do what they can to destroy what the 'do'ers have achieved
of course, the flip side is that welfare is seen to have worked in many cases, as opposed to the bootstrap prescription given to the disenfranchised
I love the 'Dubai is a joke' video by the same guy.
Adam something comes from eastern europe, with a good dose of germanic thinking.
Until a certain age, children look and dress like their parents. The daughter rejoices in looking exactly the same as the mother. And why not, she is the sun around which our tiny hominid finds orbit.
Of course, the mother hopes the tiny homimid would soon turn into a radiant star, a light unto itself, and a source od joy and wonder to the world, and these chickens come home to roost a few short years later in the form of lip, sass, attitude, and extreme accusations of terrible unfairness.
At this point, the parents understand natures wisdom of the young leaving the nest, and take their radioactive toxicicity out into the world and get new victims.
books which helped me understand the feudal life, and why it was so bad
terry pratchett - interesting times
barry hughart - master li and number 10 ox (any of the three, specifically 1 & 2)
david graeber - debt
the feudal world is nice from the top down, but is sh!t bottom up
in the best of times, it wards off death by murder, and starvation
in the worst of times, it is exactly the same as in the wild
the feudal lords turn predator to a captive prey
the premise of the 'kingdom' series is that the feudals squeeze the vassals so much that they resort to cannibalism
also, from '7 samurai'
What do you think of farmers? You think they're saints? Hah! They're foxy beasts! They say, "We've got no rice, we've no wheat. We've got nothing!" But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You'll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they've got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They're nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all! But then who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labor! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do? (begins crying) Damn...
Bangalore is a good place to be stranded in life, as any. Better than most , in fact. You might actually believe you are part of something larger.
There's a finality to a train leaving a station, an untouchability to the separation that it spews as every bogie clanksnpast. a new thread of life starting for the departed, while yours skeins back to the familiar almost immediately.
Tears well up when I realize I am enjoying the clackety clack by myself. That one soul who shared the glee with me is not around any longer
1. build a minimum level of cardio and flexibility and strength for following steps
2. do any exercise activity that takes your pulse into the 120-130 range. check via wrist HR monitor watch taken from wife. Do this for 5 minutes. take a rest of 1 minute or so, sitting down, until HR falls back below 100
in my case, on-the-spot walking is enough for me to raise HR to above 120. sad but true. this is what i am struggling against
3. do the previous step, including run and rest, for 4 to 5 times. track in a sheet
this should help heart capacity to grow.
combine daily with hybrid calisthenics for flexibility and strength , or with 5bx , for basic, getting-off-the-ground level of fitness
every 2 or 3 days, do eight-brocade and/or the taichi-zidong exercises for activating, energising and strengthening parts of the body untouched by the above.
from videos, once a week, max out for 2 minutes, rest, repeat, stop. this is HIIT.
update 25sep : doing on-the-spot walking for 5/10 minutes, instead of for 100-count, seems to work better. Or maybe, I seem to have progressed to that level.
Ots10min (was 5 until yday) is good enough to push the body into the weak-need-rest zone but also not strenous enough to cause it to crash/collapse, and make me binge-eat-drink-coffee just to stay awake.
chanting the mahamantra for outrageous (to myself) counts seems to help move me into some sort of pranayama-by-side-effect, and I notice Kumbaka happening.
morning yogasanas help loosen the back, which scrunched back into place when I was carrying short-round at the bus stop.
can I do zazen daily ? can I do sanskrit daily ? sicp ? toymatic ?
tastes better
because you paid more for it
so why not work harder for the same things that you get today
and feel happier,
making payment in attention, effort, and care
.... ?
hot on the heels of the rat-race post, today morning's unplanned reading of derek sivers' book notes brings explosive flashes of epiphany(s)
* about Dubai - not the oil-rich scions' decadent dance with wealth and opulence - there's more. lot of business savvy, political manipulation, pirate attitude (ftw)
aligns with the strong-leader hypothesis of Samo Burja
* Israel while not a happy rags to riches story , exposes in stark relief the dark side of religion and large groups of people. Ties in neatly with the next book
* religion - how religion evolves and furthers civilization. YN Harari said this , that modern cutting edge anything is because of religion, but I slowly stopped believing him over time, cos .... well I thought he was an apologist for the this-is-the-best-of-worlds theory, and that plays into the hands of the incumbents
however, my view of the incumbents as inhabiting a place of low-energy, forcing things to fall to them, like a strange attractor - is being challenged, contnuously
talking of 'civilization', there isn't one, but many groups which come and go, flourishing on one dimension, rotting on another, until their usefulness dries up and that which they didn't allow becomes the 'new solution' packaged in new semantique.
the british came and went and changed borders, rearranged wealth massively, armed groups disproportionately ... so did the spanish the portuguese, the americans the dutch the belgians, and before them the turks the umayyads the persians etc etc
each patch of land and its people, catch these socio-politico-cultural winds , and some of them build a sail and or surf their way out on the future, some remain in the doldrums
other source
* seaflooding this old link on seaflooding that I have been keeping open on my tabs, also shows how much progress and modernization is being made in that area
