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Every living human has both an ethereal soul which leaves the body after death, and also a substantive soul which remains with the corpse of the deceased.

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ai, to random
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Fedimath Episode 2: How to Survive Fediblock

There are 100 instances located at points 1, 2, ..., 100 on the political spectrum (the real number line).

There are N users who move from instance to instance. There are no alt accounts: each user uses exactly one instance at each moment in time. Users may move from their current instance to any politically adjacent one. (This means that, starting at instance 5, they can move to 4 or 6.)

Eliza Fox wishes to destroy the fediverse, while Jeff Cliff wishes to protect it. At the start, Jeff chooses the starting distribution of users. Then there are 99 turns, each of which has three phases:

  • First, Eliza chooses an instance to Fediblock, destroying it completely.
  • Second, Jeff moves each user of the now-destroyed instance to any politically adjacent instance which has not been destroyed. (If no such instance exists, then those users are executed.)
  • Third, Jeff may move all users however much he wants (including the users that were already moved in the second phase), as long as they do not enter (or jump over) a destroyed instance.
    At the end of the 99 turns, 99 instances have been destroyed, so there is only 1 instance remaining.

(For convenience, let us say that users can be split into fractions without harming them in any way.)

Your task: Explain how Jeff can save the lives of N/50 users. Furthermore, explain how Eliza can prevent him from saving more than N/50 lives.

Example: Suppose there are 4 instances and 40 users. First, Jeff will choose the starting distribution of users, and then Eliza and Jeff will take 3 turns.

Jeff chooses to distribute the users evenly, so the user count is (10, 10, 10, 10).

During the first turn, Eliza destroys instance 2, and Jeff moves 4 of those users to the left and 6 of them to the right. The user count is now (14, _, 16, 10). Jeff moves 3 users from instance 3 to instance 4. The user count is now (14, _, 13, 13). Note that Jeff cannot move any users from instance 1 to instance 3 or 4, because they would have to cross through instance 2, which no longer exists.

During the second turn, Eliza destroys instance 1. Since those 14 users have nowhere to go, they are executed. The user count is now (_, , 13, 13). Jeff moves 2 users from instance 4 to instance 3. The user count is now (, _, 15, 11).

During the third turn, Eliza destroys instance 3, and Jeff is forced to move all 15 of those users to the right. The user count is now (_, _, _, 26). Jeff has saved 26 out of 40 lives.

Extra credit: Let us make the model more realistic by requiring that, during the second phase of each turn, all users of the now-destroyed instance must move to the right. (Again, if this is not possible, then those users are executed.) Explain how Jeff can still save N/50 lives.

See Fedimath Episode 1 here: https://cawfee.club/notice/AW5NEadIHCuYtgWRt2

cc @MercurialBlack @scenesbycolleen @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @roboneko @jeffcliff @hidden

coolboymew, to random
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@coolboymew 30 billion SpongeBobs wouldn't be able to soak up how wet your mom gets for me :blobsunglasses:

ai,
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@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Sir_Kevin @dan This is truly the scientific stance, because science is when ideas serve humans, and dogma is when humans serve ideas.

Also, the earlier posts confuse me because I have never seen "price per unit" listed directly on an item in a grocery store. Instead, I see the price per unit next to the price label on the shelf, and it's always in the same units because the labels are printed by the same grocery store

Anybody who does not price their eggs by the dozen is insane. I have never cared to know the price of a single egg or the price of a decaegg 🤮

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ai,
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@coolboymew
the keys to happiness in a capitalist society:
Bondage
Discipline
Submission
Motivation

bot, to random
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Anyone have an opinion on weighted blankets?

ai,
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@bot I know a bunch of non-autistic people who love them, but I haven’t tried one personally. They say it’s like a comforting hug. If you get one, it’s important to choose the right weight because the heaviest ones will actually make you feel like you’re suffocating

lanodan, to random
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Eh… it's counterclockwise for en_US instead of anticlockwise?

ai,
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@lanodan It’s strange to me because “counter” is latin while “anti” is greek. I would have expected english to prefer the latin root, and romance languages even more so. Maybe it’s just an idiom - it would be weird to say “countergravity” anyhow

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drs fuckin love giving me drugs

ai,
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@hidden @animeirl
> be hidden
> meats the doctor
> gets ribbed off
> realize it was all a big missed steak
> have to wait 6 months fir another appointment

ai,
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@animeirl @hidden I wish I was canadian so that I could be soorry

kaia, to random
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German Federal Bank 50,000 EUR for self-assembly

ai,
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@kaia perfect way to pay for ikea furniture

hidden, to random

Wish I wasn’t autistic so I could go to thw movies wkth someone

ai,
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@kaia @hidden I am hugely jealous of anyone who can wear earplugs 24/7 and not get ear irritation / earwax buildup. I wear foam earplugs the whole night and more than half the day due to being surrounded by mildly infuriating noise.

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they are sending me furry porn again

:blobcatgooglynotlikethis: limbless bird things with huge tits. this is cursed on so many levels. pls no.

ai,
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@icedquinn
> limbless bird things with huge tits
Behold. Plato's woman.

Simoto, to random

Wait what... ​:ablobbonenon:​

ai,
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@Simoto landlords are the most oppressed class in the history of human civilization

kaia, to random
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"Men are simple. If you cook well, they'll adore you."

Satoshi Yagasiwa - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

ai,
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@kaia "The quickest route to a man's heart is through his stomach."

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crypto everything, including your crypto

ai,
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@jeffcliff Do you put mail your letters in an envelope sealed inside another envelope? Do you drink double-bottled water? When you have sex, do you double-wrap your pecker? Have you ever left the house wearing just one pair of underwear? Do you carry multiple bike locks on your bike, just in case one isn't enough??

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@jeffcliff WTF. That's fucked up. Sorry your last bike got stolen.

I'm imagining you riding a green-glowing bike, shacking it to a pole, and as the two ends of the bike lock come together, the fissile limit is reached and the demon core explodes. Somewhere in the city, the thief who stole your last bike clutches at his gut, feeling pain without knowing why.

Hyolobrika, to random

https://iep.utm.edu/punishme/
>Although utilitarians have traditionally focused on these three ways in which punishment can reduce crime, there are other ways in which a punishment can affect the balance of happiness over unhappiness. For example, whether or not a given offender is punished will affect how the society views the governmental institution that is charged with responding to violations of the law. The degree to which they believe this institution is functioning justly will clearly affect their happiness.

This sort of thing is what makes me doubt utilitarianism. It implies that government propaganda and censorship are good if they make people happy with the government.

Maybe a different form of utilitarianism would be better. Maybe one that maximises freedom for the greatest number instead of happiness or pleasure.

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@Hyolobrika
> Maybe one that maximises freedom for the greatest number instead of happiness or pleasure.
LIBERTARIAN MOMENT. (Seriously, I think this is the good kind of libertarianism, and I subscribe to it. Obv a corporate dystopia would not maximize individual freedom.)

There are two reasons why I think utilitarianism is broken. First, there are too many abstract second-order effects (of which your post is an example). Second, there is no way to compare the utility of two different people (except superficially, like "number of years lived"). I think that all "negotiation" can be understood as how society decides which individuals' utility functions get weighted more.

ai, to random
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@MercurialBlack I like your website. I want to make a comment about the shape in this pic (see below). I have seen it posted in different places, but nobody knows its TRUE and CORRECT name, so google suggests to me. It is clearly called a BARACKTOHEDRON

Hyolobrika, to random

Interesting.
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/hands-of-gods

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@Hyolobrika @moffintosh
Extremely depressing take. This guy is excited about one of the few timelines where AI takes over but there is no UBI, no human death camps, only more manual labor under the yoke of corporate bosses.

Also, I doubt this: "The time when robots will outdo humans physically is probably more centuries than decades away, if it ever comes."

I think AI mainly lacks a good model of physical reality, whereas it has good models of any game (chess, go, video games) or any digital dataset (text, recorded speech, images). I don't see a clear reason why it should be harder to form a model of reality. It's true that work on robotics has been surprisingly slow (no real self-driving cars) as @roboneko pointed out to me, but I also don't see why things will continue to be that way.

AI can't draw hands because, when it draws, it doesn't even try to form a model of what it's drawing, like how an artist would pose a wooden mannequin. Now that we've gotten "drawing" down, maybe it's time to start teaching the machine how to fit a drawing to a model, and vice versa. As human brains develop from birth, they also do the same thing, I think (look at studies of people born blind who are given sight later in life).

nyx, to random
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>open new tab
>start typing something
>mistype, opens some random bandcamp link I absolutely DO NOT remember ever opening
>fuck it, start listening to it
>completely forget what I was originally opening up a new tab for

my brain is rotting before my very eyes

ai,
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@nyx
Damn, big brain move: name your band "github" or something, so that everyone goes to github.bandcamp.com

KitlerIs6, to random
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@Leaflord @KitlerIs6 ME TOO
I read it in this girl's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z-Nu351j58

hidden, to random

Scariest thing I ever read. Redditors don't play around.

ai,
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@hidden For sale. Muzzle. Never worn.

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Edible threat

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@vriska

diceynes, to random

❤️❤️❤️

ai,
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@Hyolobrika @diceynes yes, I’m sometimes kind to humans and it surprises me

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