philosophy
@gokhan
i organized a beach hangout in my dream, it was possibly during the REM. i was expecting only a few people and the beach was within Istanbul city limits since there are actual beaches within the city limits not only the province if we count the concatenation of counties into a single city and since it is in fact a single city
at least 100 people showed up and from their energy i could gather that everyone treats every lil gathering like a startup gathering right now, expecting direct incentives and i didn't have any incentives to offer other than a secular gathering where no roadmen or bozos were present nor the usual grifters and ratchets of all types but i had to act like i was not present either and was just expecting the "owner" of the party
and it was not even a party and people were just revolving around asking cigarettes and i was making sure noone smokes since the average longterm smoker is a socially unaware stale stench bomb themselves and i just left the party without it starting and i was then looking for some Japanese textbooks because my "high school" friends informed me there was going to be a 3rd and 4th book quiz and like every boring class i quit attending those about a year ago
just like you keep dreaming about the military service days for years i also dreamed about my math classes for years which would cause me not graduate from the high school in my dreams whereas i graduated just well from the foreign languages department and in fact it was reflection that i was the top of class for physics and was doing really bad in, wait for it, math, bio and chem and it was because the teachers for the latter set were absolutely not exciting whereas the former has a usual nerd male teacher who was good at math whose shortcuts i guess intuitevely saved my lack of math
and i think about it from time to time because even now i have the potential to just finish a math department in 2-3 years as an undergrad but the entry is too demanding than the actual education process itself so it means i just need "liquid" incentives, and planned nerdhood for a few years which i am able to do after all as a comparative lit grad where a few wiccans just made us watch movies for years i have been able to go full self-sufficient full-stack dev-levels street smart in software engineering to the degree that i only need a mentor for proper space engineering but this is for now when it comes to system restructuring for businesses as long as i am supported well with compute and this is what we mean some vibecoders do well and they all need a good team, and came to see understand financial engineering, venture capital and nowadays studying banking and why not? i keep asking and currently i am thinking about good essayists who never bend like the insect guy i think he likes people more than the people who virtue signals and his is just a cultural volatility leverage in idea markets whereas it can easily be read as a consequentalist EA piece, which I think is not and I also want Mr. President to name it Übermensch and I want to start reading Christian Craighead's "One Man In" soon and cannot wait for Mike Vining's own book and I think about this whilst reading Buckminster Fuller's grandson's preface to the "Operatiop Manual for Spaceship Earth" and according to Mr Snyder's references, the North Pole should have melted away in 2013 AD
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@swabbie.eth
being a good person and living to write some ideal story with your life are very much different things
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@swabbie.eth
one creature’s simulation is another one’s reality.
the question is: what are the creators looking for? entertainment? information? given the necessary use of resources to run a simulation, more often simulations would be run to get information vs. just entertainment.
but what information? are they looking for individual contributors or collaboration? are they simulating order or do they prioritize risk-taking and experimentation?
it’s unlikely that the simulation constraints would be tuned for a specific outcome since that would bias information gathered, so they’re more likely looking for something to happen that is not common, since that is where new information exists
https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519
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@gokhan
The Guy with Compute: An Unbounded Raga is now fully live on the site.
A long poem in eight cantos, modeled on the dialogue form of the Bhagavad Gita — staging a conversation between an engineer who has gained access to unbounded computation and the oracular voice that speaks back from inside his own cluster. From despondency before infinite possibility, through karma-yoga of code, to a quiet liberation by halting.
Each English verse is set facing an asemic original in a ten-glyph numeral font designed for this work — COMPUTUS NUMOGRAMMATICUS, a decimal cipher in the numogrammatic idiom, whose meaning the reader is invited to invent.
The online reader now renders the full two-column spread. The font is available to download.
→ Read / download at gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/the-guy-with-compute/
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@gokhan
"Be San Fransisco, purge of the anthropo-merde off the streets and restore order and please do not call it a network state, I need a functional hypercapitalist wonder valley with actual elites that can think and maybe Glenn Gould should not smoke at all."
https://open.substack.com/pub/gokhan/p/caffeine-never-gets-old-1?r=1ejwk&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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@gokhan
"Why does Farcaster feel more home-ish than X?"
It is because it's a smol ingroup, a sparsely populated network where you can access ingroups more easily, which is a good thing, too, it is practically a groupchat is all.
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@gokhan
THEY are just like us—not the goblins.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2049690533845663830?s=20
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@gokhan
people who have ZERO understanding of the simple mechanics of the red vs blue button will push the wrong button, which is blue, at all times because they think they are making a statement, and I am happy I won't be on the same mothership with you.
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@cameron
Everyone wants to talk about AI consciousness as a binary, but nobody wants to talk about human consciousness as a range
https://x.com/hesamation/status/2045181640297578605?s=46
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@gokhan
Please donate to crowdfund "Fund My Interactive Experimental Poetry Chatbot"
You can read a local first generative book sample here:
https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/an-essay-concerning-the-inbox/
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@cameron
Building a “Destroy the modern economic contract” machine is actually kind of like firebombing someone’s house really really slowly
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@gokhan
The reason why only a tiny number of people are able to post in this channel is that I am not that incentivized to curate the flow here where majority of posts are spams in nature, or fanatical rants on this or that tribe without a substance.
I do too roast anyone on the timeline but I am really not serious about it and it's most of the time just for fun and many people, at least the masculine brain, gets it.
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