lukifer

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by lukifer 13d ago
Intelligence is a weapon? points gun from space Always has been.
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by lukifer 27d ago
> Gruppo Di Nun's Revolutionary Demonology It's on my shelf! Haven't gotten to it yet, looking forward to it. Also interested to read Reza Negarestani's "Intelligence & Spirit"
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by lukifer 27d ago
I personally think Land is worth reading (critically), but to say he cooked his brain with methamphetamines is a vast understatement. I agree that there's not much to learn from him on cybernetics specifically: he's sort of "
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by lukifer 1mo ago
The lossy compression of language is why we should find it unsurprising that LLMs tend to perform better at code, than at human language tasks or reasoning. While there can be subtle semantic differences in real codebases (using "null&
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by lukifer 3mo ago
"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."
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by lukifer 4mo ago
NOSTR [0] is a store and forward relay service, ostensibly a distributed Twitter clone, but also highly extensible [1] to support other functionality. [0] Notes & Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays: https://nostr.com/ [1
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by lukifer 4mo ago
> does it simply skew deckbuilding into a new "broken" exactly, that's why it probably isn't feasible other than casual/social play: there's no change to the fundamental rules that doesn't end up warpin
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by lukifer 4mo ago
My thinking is that there's a tradeoff, that you slow your ramping in exchange for cycling ( replacing your land for turn). You trade your acceleration towards big spells for more consistency (or just fewer dead draws).
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by lukifer 4mo ago
It's alive and well, and the community is welcoming and happy to teach: https://nullsignal.games/players/around-the-world/ Cards release more slowly than the FFG era, but the current stewards (Null Signal) ha
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by lukifer 4mo ago
My biggest beef with Magic isn't the lands system, but that the game is fundamentally stingy with cards, leading to many non-games, and/or turns where you pray for the right top-deck and don't get it. (This is one major reaso
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by lukifer 5mo ago
> There's a reason why leftists support it I run in some far-left circles, and trust me, they don't :) Georgism is the neglected middle child of political economy: libertarians see it as an abrogation of sacred property rights,
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by lukifer 5mo ago
What article? This is an HN-only discussion post.
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Half-agree: zoning restrictions and non-essential building regulations are a de-facto government handout to existing property owners. At the same time, apologists for rentiers will do anything except taxing unimproved land value (which amon
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Cool! Disappointing there's so much focus on the non-sandboxing, I think it's a reasonable trade-off to release early, and follow up with signing later. - Website looks great overall, but the fixed and overlaid header title is awk
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Colorado has an alternative service which is entirely driver-owned: https://www.coloradodrivers.coop/
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by lukifer 6mo ago
Sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice. This is not to say that this administration is definitely not targeting civilians or infrastructure on purpose; just that the end result, and the moral culpability, are th
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by lukifer 7mo ago
I don't disagree. I trimmed "religious and mythological memeplexes" down to avoid repetition. (Also worth considering: de-facto religious behaviors need not be supernatural or "mythological"; you can substitute your
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by lukifer 7mo ago
The fascinating paradox: there are clearly "tells" (slop-smells, like code-smells?) of LLM-generated text. We're all developing heuristics rapidly, which probably pass a Pepsi challenge 95+% of the time. And yet: LLMs are wri
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by lukifer 7mo ago
Examples abound; but for good and ill, the language-using ape seems to be a religious animal, having co-evolved with mythological memeplexes. There's the old salt from DFW, "one can't choose whether to worship, only what to w
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by lukifer 7mo ago
This is (tragically) the reason why I remain a tab hoarder: the UI carries an implicit nudge (a costly signal of visual real estate), for my future self to engage with it. In a similar spirit to OP: it did help mitigate the hoarding, when I
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by lukifer 7mo ago
The emails are bizarrely sloppy with spelling and punctuation, perhaps many usages of "don't" ended up being typed as "don t", triggering an automated find-and-replace.
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by lukifer 9mo ago
I don't like "Wrappeds" (low-key social hack to manufacture normalization of surveillance capitalism?), but with HN being public, I succumbed to temptation. Very fun, 10/10 no notes, surprisingly good for a small sample
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by lukifer 9mo ago
"I'm not a capitalist, I am a creativist... Capitalists make things to make money, I like to make money to make things." - Eddie Izzard It's more about the viability of making any kind of living from one's creative
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by lukifer 10mo ago
I feel like it says a lot, when intelligent amorality seems genuinely preferable to blundering incompetence. Many such cases. One wonders how much "enshittification" is intrinsic to networked software and our late-stage-whatever p
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by lukifer 10mo ago
They're inherently different: creative work (especially in a digital, trivially replicated format) is non-rivalrous, and at least partially non-excludable. "You wouldn't download a car." [0] Property rights are a social
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by lukifer 10mo ago
If it is the case that consciousness can emerge from inert matter, I do wonder if the way it pays for itself evolutionarily, is by creating viral social signals. A simpler animal could have a purely physiological, non-subjective experience
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by lukifer 10mo ago
The dilemma is, the one thing we can be sure of, is our subjectivity. There is no looking through a microscope to observe matter empirically, without a subjective consciousness to do the looking. So if we're eschewing the inelegance
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by lukifer 11mo ago
I, Pencil (Revisited): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-i-penci...
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by lukifer 1y ago
It’s a problem with representation generally. The political theorist Benjamin Studebaker uses an analogy of getting into a hot air balloon: there are ways you can be of service to those below, giving them an overhead view, maybe warning the
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by lukifer 1y ago
Unless I’m missing something, that’s quintiles of absolute wealth. I’d be curious how the data shakes out for the lowest quintile calculated relative to costs of living.

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