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ceoln

@ceoln@qoto.org

A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).

Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.

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GeekSusie, to random
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    ceoln,
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    @GeekSusie

    Always

    ceoln, to ChatGPT
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    ceoln, to TheSims
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    Posted! Mostly about my old The Sims 4 save that I've resurrected.

    The Boatwhistles https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/the-boatwhistles/

    #theSims #sims4 #weblog

    ceoln, to random
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    So no one actually thinks Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, right?

    ceoln, to TheSims
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    Listening to Will Wright on this Masterclass sub I got for Solstice is making me want to play The Sims ( #thesims ?) again! Many memories :)

    http://www.davidchess.com/words/SimsStories.html

    Wow those are ancient!

    I think I have a Sims ?4 save in which I'm trying to do 10 generations in the same lot. Takes a long time! (I am always very nice to my Sims, so no evil tricks 😁)

    ceoln, to math
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    Oh hey maybe this would be a fun place to talk about my half-baked amateur #math and possibly #topology ideas!

    Say I have a semi-metric space where for every point P and real distance D > 0, there is at least one point Q where distance(P,Q)=D.

    Is that space interesting in any way? Does it have a name or set of named properties?

    Earlier weblog entry (using a rule about accumulation points rather than the PQD thing): https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/

    ceoln,
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    @sliverdaemon

    All responses are fun! :)

    Can't be anything like a sphere in what sense? We can imagine all the points at distance r from C. Does that not turn out spherical enough?

    Figuring out where our intuition goes entirely wrong without the triangle inequality is always interesting. 😁

    Note that in the original there is at least one point at every D from every point.

    But requiring that there is just at least one pair of points for every (real positive) distance sounds attractive, too.

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    @sliverdaemon

    I kind of think so? And/or dense or something 😆

    ceoln, to random
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    So as far as I can tell, e/acc ( #eacc I guess, "Effective Acceleration") which is the latest techbro idea, is that since we use resources to do things, some of which are desirable, it's a MORAL IMPERATIVE to use resources as quickly as possible. Thus hastening the heat death of the universe, when all possible resources have been converted to "utility", and everything is just a sea of featureless thermodynamic equilibrium without thought or life.

    Great, billionaires in a suicide cult. 🤪

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    @svuorela

    Ha yes excellent example! It is hard for me to see how the AI in that scenario isn't exactly the thing that e/acc thinks is a moral imperative.

    ceoln, to philosophy
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    Posted! On objective truth and formal systems and semi-metric spaces and things.

    Semi-metric woolgathering https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/

    #philosophy #theology #mathematics #objectivity #topology

    ceoln, to random
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    @3dogcouch

    Ahh I see! Nice to see even ACB not going along with Trump.

    3dogcouch, to Colorado
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    One surprise was A C Barrett pointing out that we have impeachment process for after election, not the process articulated by Mitchell. #colorado #supremecourt #msnbc

    ceoln,
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    @3dogcouch

    i.e. she hasn't read the 14th Amendment, or what?

    ceoln, to books
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    Posted! Book reviews and a bread recipe.

    Sunday afternoon https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/sunday-afternoon/

    #books #bread #baking #amreading

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    So, does anyone have any insights about how Apple vIsion
    Pro™ compares with that Meta™-branded apple
    Vision pro VR headseat?

    Asking for a friend^Wtrademark lawyer

    ceoln,
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    @cstross

    So it's really Apple Vision Pro™ then...

    ninokadic, to Cognition
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    What's your position regarding consciousness? Broad physicalism (we'll have a scientific explanation one day) or broad anti-physicalism (science can't give a complete account)? Or something else?

    Please repost after voting, I'm genuinely curious! 🤔

    @philosophy @philosophyofmind

    ceoln,
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    @ninokadic

    I can't imagine what a scientific explanation would look like, or how we would know that it was correct, but I also have no reason (other than that) to think we won't someday have one.

    Everything we know about the physical world is derived from the contents of consciousness; completing the loop and explaining consciousness in terms of the physical world would be cool. :) But I can't sketch out how it would work.

    (Where by "consciousness" I mean subjective experience, not easy stuff that can be straightforwardly measured objectively.)

    @philosophy @philosophyofmind

    ceoln, to books
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    Posted about #books and especially about Red Pine's little book on the Heart Sutra. Also that joke about dualism.

    Bodhi, svaha! https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/bodhi-svaha/

    #buddhism #zen #philosophy #words #HeartSutra

    ceoln, to ChatGPT
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    Posted!

    I asked #Bard and #chatgpt for some cultural analysis of transgressiveness and co-optation. They responded with some words!

    Can AIs do interesting cultural analysis? https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/can-ais-do-interesting-cultural-analysis/

    #AI #culture

    davidtoddmccarty, to random
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    Do primitive tribes deal with mental illness in similar levels and rates as more “advanced” societies? Seems unlikely.

    ceoln,
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    @davidtoddmccarty

    Why specifically does it seem unlikely?

    ceoln,
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    @davidtoddmccarty

    That's possible... also we live a lot longer I think. I wonder if there is anthropology on the subject.

    realhackhistory, to random
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    When it comes to hacking everyone has ideas about how AI might enable or prevent attacks in the coming years but the details as to how are a lot vaguer than the numerous predictions themselves.

    ceoln,
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    @realhackhistory

    Reminds me of the people claiming that Gen AI is going to kill everyone...

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    ceoln,
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    @idoubtit

    See in particular r/SchuylkillNotes I think it is.

    I've found a few similar things in NYC, although I don't know if they're similar enough to count.

    #hypergraphia is definitely a thing, and (layman's guess) coupled with #schizophrenia it might have led to similar behavior in multiple people independently.

    ceoln, to random
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    "Why did Constantinople get the works?
    That's nobody's business but the Turks!"

    TIL that that song, made recently famous by TMTG in the 90's, first appeared in flippin' 1953, from a band known as The Four Lads.

    (YouTube Music has it, and it's very good IMHO!)

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    @dodoandthebrawn

    I had not seen that until today; thank you! :)

    ceoln, to ai
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    Having finished a rereading of Stross's Accelerando, I was thinking that the whole "superhuman intelligence arises from autonomous financial instruments" thing was kind of silly; then it occurred to me that in real life one of the software systems into which the most #ai effort is being poured, started out as a website for college students to evaluate each other's hotness..

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