lanolinoil

lanolinoil , 1 day ago

maybe it’s what pumps him up

lanolinoil , 1 day ago

What? Off of BLM land or something? No one is going to let you steal wild horses off their land I suspect.

Surely I can’t just go grab a bunch of wild animals anymore – it’s not 1850

lanolinoil , 1 day ago

But… there were no horses in the Americas until colonization (sort of) – Is there still a difference between feral and wild in the new world?

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

Do arduino stuff or look up chips with those cortexm0 arm processors. Like these: www.adafruit.com/product/3403

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

isn’t that the point? The corruption has tricked us to believing they can regulate themselves or are even not amoral about social issues. Companies make profit – that is their singular goal. The laws and regulations control their behavior, not ‘good will’ or whatever we pretend motivates individuals

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

end citizens united – corporations aren’t people

end lobbying so shell oil doesn’t have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

???

profit

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

I don’t know – It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don’t see that happening at all.

There’s also the 250 year empire rule which we’re at now against stability with the current system.

I honestly have no answer other than a “vote or die” but we all know that doesn’t work.

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don’t know of any real solution.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

• Julius Nyerere

lanolinoil , 4 days ago

pretty big talk for a people that think curry is an Indian food and still use vinegar as a fried food condiment :P

And just for the record – Butter, nor sugar, are spices …

lanolinoil , 6 days ago

…and for that reason, I’m out

lanolinoil , 6 days ago

absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s not that those softwares are noble, they’re just decentralized. I will say it’s impressive that Tor doesn’t have some people pulling the strings trying to take over (but it’s probably the NSA right?)

lanolinoil , 6 days ago

is it not open source? That helps to decentralize power though powerful figures can still appear in those spaces too, like (benevolent) Torvalds on the Linux kernel

e: yeah github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

lanolinoil , 6 days ago

www.indy100.com/media-library/picture.jpg?id=2805…

lanolinoil , 6 days ago

?

It’s distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.

lanolinoil , 9 days ago

sounds like carteling more than monopoly but maybe that’s just a sub category

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

oi mate you got your nut oil loiscence?

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

I make this every week because you can’t buy white bread without a billion preservatives and whatnot theflavorbender.com/japanese-milk-bread-recipe-ho…

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

wow haven’t seen antipope in a long time

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

to be fair, he was attempting satire – he is ‘switching sides’ and now wants a felon to run the country.

They’re so bad at everything lol WOOSH on satire

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suge_Knight

lanolinoil , 10 days ago

yeah the balance of power through the 3 branches scratching each other backs and the hidden 4th BOP group – money

lanolinoil , 22 days ago

Will pour out some dogecoin for my boy – RIP Kabosu

lanolinoil , 23 days ago

It’s turning more to be If you weren’t a fucking pussy, why would you associate and claim these as your people?

lanolinoil , 23 days ago

I wish so bad I believed in YHWH’s hell so I could sleep knowing he would spend all of eternity there.

lanolinoil , 23 days ago

Fuck Sinclair ‘media’

lanolinoil , 23 days ago

Looks about the same to me – en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_MyNetworkTV_affiliates

But I was just being silly mostly. I’m not going to enter into an argument about whether or not TV news media is good/bad. I think the answer should be pretty clear.

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

It will design the machines to build the autonomous robots that mine the cobalt… doing the jobs of several companies at one time and either freeing up several people to pursue leisure or the arts or starve to death from being abandoned by society.

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

We ruined the world by painting certain men or groups as bad. The centralization of power is the bad thing. That’s the whole purpose of all Republics as I understand it. Something we used to know and have almost completely forgotten

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

when you get into these nitty gritty copyright/ip arguments you realize it’s all just a house of cards to make capital king and the main ism

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

I agree and I gave that option as the last one in the list.

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

The model T will absolutely not replace horse drawn carts – Maybe some small group of people or a family for a vacation but we’ve been using carts to do war logistics for 1000s of years. You think some shaped metal put together is going to replace 1000s of men and horses? lol yeah right

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

TFW you realize you’re just a fancy autocomplete engine :P

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

No, the thing I’m comparing is our inability to discern where a new technology will lead and our history of smirking at things like books, cars, the internet and email, AI, etc.

The first steam engines pulling coal out of the ground were so inefficient they wouldn’t make sense for any use case than working to get the fuel that powers them. You could definitely smirk and laugh about engines vs 10k men and be totally right in that moment, and people were.

The more history you learn though, you more you realize this is not only a hubrisy thing, it’s also futile as how we feel about the proliferation of technology has never had an impact on that technology’s proliferation.

And, to be clear, I’m not saying no humans will work or have anything to do – I’m saying significantly MORE humans will have nothing to do. Sure you still need all kinds of people even if the robots design and build themselves mostly, but it would be an order of magnitude less than the people needed otherwise.

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

same same?

lanolinoil , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

But since we don’t understand how cognition works in living beings almost at all – who’s to say that’s not how ‘actual thinking’ works other than 'I know it when I see it!"

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

define design – I had Chat GPT dream up new musical instruments and then we implemented one. It wrote all the code and architecture, though I did have to prod/help it along in places.

pwillia7.github.io/echosculpt3/

you can read more here: reticulated.net/…/daily-experiments-gpt4-bing-ai/

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

you’ll never be able to make a LLM that’s any good at playing chess,

They said that about machines and then we all laughed at the mechanical turk hoax. Now machines can almost beat you in Go.

I’ll say it again – It is hubris and you will obviously be wrong to try to predict the future or what will have value.

like come on – superpositioning exists and we’ve no clue how consciousness works (Bostrom thinks its just maths) but you have this crystal ball full of certainty. It smells…

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

This is such a rich-country-centric view that I can’t stand. LLMs have already given the world maybe it’s greatest gift ever – access to a teacher.

Think of the 800 million poor children in the world and their access to a Kahn academy level teacher on any subject imaginable with a cellphone/computer as all they need. How could that not have value and is pearl clutching drawing skills becoming devalued really all you can think about it?

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

bro I was taught in a textbook in the US in the 00s that the statue of liberty was painted green.

No math teacher I ever had actually knew the level of math they were teaching.

Humans hallucinate all the time. almost 1 billion children don’t even have access to a human teacher, thus the boon to humanity

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

yeah but whatever the stats about as N increases alpha/beta error goes away thing is

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

Sure steam engines may not fit every use but from them we learned to make other kinds of engines right? But yeah I’m sure ‘LLM’ will either change scope/definition or we’ll make new stuff to fit other use cases kind of like diffusion models for images vs llm for text generation.

lanolinoil , 24 days ago

is it good guessing that you know when you step out of your bed without looking you won’t fall to your death?

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

To play devil’s advocate – Liberalism, or the idea that the people who are ruled should have a say in the rules, started coming about ~500 years ago. The elite’s were all always evil and bad to the masses, enslaving us, paying us very little, even clocks and timekeeping were used to trick workers into more hours and when pocket watches became available, they were just banned in early industry.

A lot of people fought and died to establish the idea of Liberalism all the way up to unions and workers rights. So, in a way, ‘we’ did fight for those things and earned them over a long time. It does kind of feel like now the same ‘we’ has forgotten the value of that stuff and the sacrifice it took to get there.

I still don’t really see this as our fault. We live in gilded age II where money is virtue no matter how its acquired. The internet broke the stable propaganda machines and we’re in flux of stabilizing around the new ones and kicking out the smaller bad actors.

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

Lol are you a sovereign citizen or something and don’t recognize the feds?

lanolinoil , 25 days ago

but then I don’t get the rush of feeling alive and being close to death

lanolinoil , 1 month ago

Is that why Fernando has to race at Aston?

lanolinoil , 1 month ago

I’m excited to get more cyborg parts especially after laser ablating my eyeballs

lanolinoil , 1 month ago

Take a shit on the passbar, screech like an alien in a movie and then just walk out… or at least that was always my fantasy