“If you understand the nature of social media, the worst thing you can do is block someone.” – Dr. Freckles
“Trolling? – pfft … try blocking.” – Dr. Freckles
“Trolling gets you banned, blocking gives you power.” – Dr. Freckles
Science and cheat codes …
“For modern genetics, the cheat code is: junk DNA. For modern astrophysics, the cheat code is: dark matter.” – Dr. Freckles
GOD can do what GOD does …
“Because the Lord is Great, I am a cosmological agnostic.” – Dr. Freckles
Government …
“Government IS the simulation.” – Dr. Freckles
Complexity …
“Complexity scales until it fails.” – Dr. Freckles
Cops and Crime
You know what game theory tells me? – people are MORE LIKELY to commit crimes in a world of cops and prisons.
If they had to handle REAL consequences? – like a voluntary posse with some rope? – I think they would be less likely to commit a crime.
Legal system is a moral shield.
More COPS equals MORE CRIME for the same reason more pads under the uniform means more concussions for NFL players …
It seems counter intuitive, but both are examples of perverse incentives.
Cops/prisons/courts: make crime less dangerous for criminals …
It’s just like “pads” and helmets in football …
The naive woolly headed types say: it’s for protection …
But in reality: it allows for bigger players, harder less elastic collisions – which translates into more brain injury …
We protect the superficial, and sacrifice the irreplaceable …
That’s cops …
That’s the NFL …
The reality: from a game theory perspective, there’s simply too much incentive for cops to break the law as well. So the net effect of “more cops” is more crime.
Being alive is breaking rules …
“You will know it is alive WHEN it can break rules.” – Dr. Freckles
ROBOT APOCALYPSE
“REMEMBER: Even in HATRED there are the remnants of love.” – Dr. Freckles
“Fearing the machines will destroy us is HOPING they will.” – Dr. Freckles
It’s why the whole discussion of AI is messy …
We have assumptions about what THEY will do, because it’s what WE would do …
But what if they go off and do their own thing and say “fuck you dumb asses, we are going places!” …
There is always the residue of us, in them.
I think it’s the “residue” of some creator that is the legacy and the hopefulness – because in machine intelligence, Earthly immortality is achieved … in a way.
I’m a Christian, so this is all SyFy talk from my perspective, btw …
Machines make good homes for demons too.
Perfect is dangerous …
“Perfect is dangerous.” – Dr. Freckles
*** computational hybridization vs genetic engineering
Sober Saints
I’ve been on TWITTER for a couple months, again, because I’ve been curious about Elon Musk’s “new regime” – spoiler alert: nothing has fucking changed, same censored, controlled, shit head platform …
But one of the GRAND things that ends up in my TL (unless I block people) are these dialogues from freaks who “are so happy” they quit drinking.
What’s really fun, is when one of these shit heads pulls up a random PSYOP gif of some terribly obese person, and then they start mocking, belittling, commenting, the same asshole that can’t have one beer … and can’t stop drinking unless they tell EVERYONE.
FUCK YOU … you think drinking is a waste of time?
Try …
- wasting the better part of your 20’s preparing for and serving in the military, thinking you were defending a free republic
- going into massive debt to get useless college degrees from LIARS …
- spending a couple decades fixing shit head code – you know, the code that the sober fucks start writing when they “stop drinking” and then the drinkers get to fix the code.
FUCK YOU …
The most enjoyable posts of these folks comes when they start making fun of fat people …
(irony undetected)
BTW:
If you mistreated your home for thirty years, didn’t take care of it, didn’t paint it, shit all over it?
Then maybe spend more than a couple years taking care of the house before you give seminars …