bobson381

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by bobson381 19d ago
If you're watching through VLC, you can set the mix to stereo in the audio settings - perhaps there's a similar setting you can find? Not sure if you've got the tv's optical going straight into an amp. Some stereo receiv
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by bobson381 26d ago
Feels like the way a video game will render the outside of a wall or solid surface, but you can run into it and warp partly through and there's nothing internal to it at all.
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by bobson381 27d ago
To add on - complexity itself is a perceptual feature introduced by language - we treat and describe things as though they are made of an unimaginable number of tiny parts. So this also increases the fun of the wordy wine/coffee/w
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Gift Economy Background of the Minecraft End Poem(theeggandtherock.com)
6 points by bobson381 29d ago|1 comments
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by bobson381 29d ago
Not certain if this has been posted here before. I found it a fascinating thing to read as context. The author also has some interesting theories about universe evolution over time.
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by bobson381 1mo ago
it's that it's 1 Trillion less in incentivized middlemen. A la Graeber.
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by bobson381 1mo ago
the linking thread for all three is self-reference, either in the form of a fugue or in a painting showing its own creation. Doug is a loop guy
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by bobson381 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth is why. The financial economy sits on a finite store of physical goods, and as a dissipative structure, our high-energy, high-complexity global society acts as a low-f
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by bobson381 1mo ago
GHG would keep leaking out of the permafrost. Warming goes up even if we stop all emissions tomorrow.
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by bobson381 1mo ago
okay wow. I have seen a lot of quieter bands on those, absolutely insane that they captured this. Funny blend of genre and space.
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by bobson381 1mo ago
Right. This would make it possible and reasonable if you could find a house that is enough, such that you can live in it, expect a reasonably good experience in it for the life of your time in it, and that that mortgage payment, plus all ma
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by bobson381 1mo ago
Agree here. But I'm a doomer/collapsenik - so, the same future coming for "retirement" is the same future coming for "house always appreciates in value". Maybe 1990 -> 2020 was an okay 30 year period, 2026 -
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by bobson381 1mo ago
30 year mortgage is founded partly on the idea that your house will be worth more in the future when you sell it. That you can lock in a lower price now. Number cannot always go up. We are at the top of the carbon pulse. Financialization ha
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by bobson381 2mo ago
I Eat the Stars was pretty good. Nice take on grasping the absurdity of the coming metabolic failure of the complex systems we live inside of. Everything dies, even big patterns like industrial society.
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by bobson381 2mo ago
A guy on the sysadmin subreddit managed to 8x the global GDP https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1uz2fv2/aws_says_...
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by bobson381 2mo ago
Sounds good, thanks for your response. I didn't mean to denigrate your word choice at all, it's mostly that I'm hypersensitive to that kind of phrasing now because there's so much auto-written stuff on e.g. Substack, Lin
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by bobson381 2mo ago
Language is already a lossy map, but it is not really an expression of another person's thought or mind if they translate it through an LLM. Or at least it's a much harder to decipher representation of it. Form is void, void is fo
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by bobson381 2mo ago
Fascinatingly, I'm now so allergic to certain LLM-phrases that I immediately noticed your use of Not X but Y in this comment. Maybe that was intentional, maybe not, but it's a funny illustration of how odd this language rabbit hol
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by bobson381 2mo ago
Because of access to a giant store of energy. Our advancement has also created a future need to consume more and more energy to fuel increased complexity.
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by bobson381 3mo ago
One of my favorite pieces of writing on this topic https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everyth...
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by bobson381 3mo ago
if you allowed for some slippage in precision, how many images could you fit in that are recognizable from various angles, with ~acceptable~ resolution? Sounds fun.
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by bobson381 3mo ago
Hmm. Mainly that access to much larger quantities of energy than before in the form of oil/coal/gas enabled the creation of a much more complex system than before, with a higher metabolic need. Ongoing servicing of that metabolic
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by bobson381 3mo ago
it is the first time we have harnessed all of the energy on the planet at once to power a single interconnected advanced system across continents. Mostly I'm drawing from a thermodynamics outlook[0]. previous collapses had unused high
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by bobson381 3mo ago
This is largely escapism because the current paradigm of growth is ending, rather messily. The definition of living well is going through a forced change, and adjusting is hard.
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by bobson381 3mo ago
Okay, question because someone here might know. I have a faint recollection of reading a few years ago that prior to the current train automation system in Japan, they used to have to keep a staff of graduate students or other temp workers
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by bobson381 3mo ago
Huh, interesting. I retract my previous statement! I'd love to read about this if you have a source.
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by bobson381 3mo ago
also interrobang is rendered as bang-interro (!?) when it should be interro (?) then bang (!) -> (?!)
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by bobson381 3mo ago
I dunno, my Mom in the midwest thinks it's the funniest thing ever, having grown up in an area where all the houses looked like this. There's some element of satisfaction knowing that you can't buy good taste
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by bobson381 3mo ago
We are also limited - the backstock that's made our extraordinary 200-year party possible is the reserve of oil. Future civilizations will start lower on the energy gradient.
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by bobson381 3mo ago
I'm with Alan Watts. It's consciousness all the way down, in a unified, Spinozan, sense. A rock feels rock like you feel you, just in rock ways. Tat Tvam Asi, in a way. It's useful for us to have the concept of separateness,

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