𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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  • When I have seen the numbers, it always surprised me how varied the patterns are in reality. We tend to think in tribalistic terms. Like all other users follow a similar pattern as self, but that tends to be very wrong. The majority of users are usually not the daily routine type but the once or twice a week, and once or twice a month types.

    Intuitively, if you notice the way post responses tend to be somewhat random and unpredictable in terms of voting and replies, this viewership pattern covers that probability. Watch places like reddit in the good times of the past when a repost is made at a time of day that should encompass a fresh audience. The initial momentum from vote responses is often very different. It results in entirely different trajectories overall. Could be other factors there. I have seen similar here, but at much smaller differentials.


  • When I am dealing with deception, or dishonesty.

    I have owned a business twice, and partially run another on the back office side.

    Thing is, business is hard. You may not realize how often the business is on the brink of failure. That can be super stressful. Things often look different from an outsider’s perspective that does not interact with the books. Cash flow is the super critical factor. Employees are the biggest expense that is very difficult to deal with. In many cases, there is no connection between each employee and revenue. So it is hard to separate perception of the burden from the person as a human. People management sucks for this reason. It is best to run the books and back office separate from people managers. Thing is, the type of person you want managing the back office is likely terrible at people management.

    I am this kind of asshole. I do not manage people unless I have to. I do care, a whole lot in fact, on the logical empathy side. I am just not very in tune with other people’s emotions in the moment. If I have a ton on my plate, I will skip what I am able to. I’m not actually trying to justify being a jerk. It is not an excuse. I am often just unaware and focused on other things. I do not take “me” to work. I do the job for which I am paid. It sucks, but it is not personal to me unless someone fucks with my pay.

    Not trying to make excuses or call you out. I am just saying, it might not be as you imagined. Sounds like they do not value you as much as you would like. If you are able to find better, go for it. I would not walk into the void over it without a replacement.


  • The only use case I see for helping with STL files at this point, is if the path to quads is made easier. As others have said, STEP is far better because it retains π. I do not do file sharing or print the designs of others because they are usually of dubious quality. Sadly, legislation has made the subject of connecting and sharing political with no effective push back from businesses in this space. If I am forced to chose between digital slavery with internet and disconnecting, I prefer the island life. In prep for that impending dystopia, I would not use any online service like this in my tools. I hope it is useful for someone. GL.


  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldNigh 2 [SMBC]
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    Mythos that defies evolution and all of natural history. An oversimplification that does not account for the real timeline and complexity between now and the end of the age of scientific discovery when all of science is a fully constrained engineering corpus. Typical collective group think from a society without meritocratic hierarchy after turning education into a class filter, and failing to prevent the nepotism of gross inherited wealth. Now there are no leaders to sell a future anyone wants to buy into, so they peddle dystopian shittery to justify their exploitation and tyranny. Fully constraining biology to an engineering corpus is exponentially more complex than all of current knowledge held, and by orders of magnitude. That is a whole technological age shift that makes the present look like a joke. This dystopian shit is just to justify the war that comes soon because these fuckwits cannot control themselves in every minor age of science. WW1 was Chemistry, WW2 was Physics, the next is Computer Science. The one for Biology is a likely candidate for the great filter. Biology is the greatest and final technology to master. Industrial wasteful tech is not even possible for a millennia before rare planetary resources are fully commercially exhausted. Several will be gone in less than a century. Biology is technology on the order of stellar lifetimes. In that age, you will have everything of now and so much more, but it will all be the result of biology. •»ÀĪÙ¬¶¬§¬×







  • OCR tool+ to autogen a suggested alt text. The path of least resistance needs to be lowered.

    Alternatively, inverting the paradigm is likely to cause less issues and push back. Add the automated tool the the end user in need of the version. This obviously creates the issue of data quality and trust, but for the smaller group. What if there was a reply field silently posted to everyone’s notifications feed indicating anonymous instances of the tool being used to fill in the gaps for alt text? The message would need to be opt out or carefully presented. Perhaps it could be possible to modify the post itself via the tool? Better yet, make the alt text field a Wikipedia style affair anyone with an account can edit, but with a lock available to the OP. That would create much more healthy awareness of the need for alt text, as people posting the content will see the places where gaps are filled by an automated tool. It gives them the chance to edit. This does little to initially improve the experience of the most active alt text users, but it creates a strong cultural shift in awareness that should improve the situation greatly in the long term IMO.









  • What is manipulation really? Isn't everything some form of manipulation or another? Ultimately we are all just chemistry. Everything we do is a matter of balancing that chemistry.

    From that perspective, we can go one step further. Is there some limited pool of chemistry that we are all competing to access. Obviously that is not the case within the physical world. Perhaps the temporal dimension could be considered the primary limiting factor, but in that resource we are all more or less equals, at least from within our social caste.

    If we are all just playing a game of chemistry, every move made is of manipulative self interest. The only real difference between individuals in this dimension is self awareness. Most are not aware or thinking in this space.

    So then, one should question, what does self awareness mean here? A good way to pose that question in a more concrete abstraction is to say, do you believe that there are truly evil people plotting evil deeds that harm others for the sake of evil as their prime motivation? To plot in such a way is to say that they are causing self harm willingly in their machinations. Does anyone believe that such people exist, or is everyone doing what they believe to be right, and merely ignorant, perhaps even willfully, at the harm they cause?

    If you follow this thread of thought from two tangential planes of the same dimension, and mull it over well, Machiavellian is just an arbitrary label for a type of self awareness within the space of ‘we are all only chemistry’. If no one is plotting in such a way as to cause self harm, and all the evil in the world is the result of a spectrum of ignorance, then the real question here at somewhere near the bottom is whether you choose to believe in utopia or inevitable dystopia. In another phrasing, is the glass half empty or half full? There is no negative constraint on manipulation.

    In the dimension of humans as chemistry, my self awareness doesn’t itself mean I wish to benefit myself at your expense. Just because I see how to on some logical plane, does not mean I choose that path. Quite the opposite, my altruism is another dimension entirely. For instance, a place like the fediverse has less ultimate utility for a maker like me when compared to a larger aggregate of digital public commons, but to actively choose to set aside self for more altruistically inclined motivations, is manipulative in a positive form. Especially so when promoting positive engagement from all.

    There is no causal link between narcissism, greed, or selfishness and manipulative potential through self awareness, though the first is the only of those three that are real on an ontological level if one analyses them more closely under the same lens of ‘what is evil’. If I am keen on altruistic and collaborative benefit; if I am aware that any abstract mechanism of attenuation is itself incapable of amplification, then it is in my own best interest to benefit you and all the rest, regardless of the spectrum of self awareness.

    Therefore, everything everyone does is a form of manipulation for chemistry. I am glad you chose to engage with me for this moment in our lives. I wanted the best for you before this interaction dear digital neighbor, and want for the same after. I choose to believe the future will be brighter; that the glass is half full. I believe in it so strongly that I will do my best to bend others to the same, even when I know I do so at my own expense. Caring for others without any expectation of return is the purist form of altruism. In some sense it requires a certain inner self sadism to pursue. Perhaps at times it may be misguided. We are all pareidolia machines of analog organic form. Each of us is unable to take in and sense all the world around us. We form a coherent but assumptive inner narrative of our own existence, but it is always a fiction if scrutinized deeply enough. What are the quantum fields around your neurons right now.

    From this perspective, absolutely, I love a person that is altruistically inclined and self aware beyond my scope of thought. I especially love those with emotional intelligence that easily manipulate me in a dimension where I am very weak, but where I need and welcome the help. I really do genuinely care for you as a person. It is primarily driven by logic. It is a more consistent and persistent care. I know I am weak when it comes to emotional empathy, but I actively do my best to compensate with logical empathy which I feel strongly. My unlucky physical disability at the hands of another, and over a decade in constant pain drives my desire for no one to suffer like me. My altruism is within the realm of self sadism. My inner judgemental narrative centers on observing and measuring only the actions of others, and self. I know I did not get very much individual attention as a kid, also that my parents did what they believed to be best. I do not plot for evil. I do not choose to be ignorant of the effects I may have upon others. Does this somehow make me a bad person?

    When I see some perspective or argument, I always see a dozen ways to support or discredit it, and various supporting reasons to do so. There is no Self in that perspective. My quale is born from a raw curiosity, but not with malicious intent. That curiosity is more like my inner child, where I am emotionally vulnerable much the same. I must logically do my best to mask that vulnerability when others wish to do me harm. We all exist in many dimensions of thought and self awareness. Some may be more or less outliers. I much prefer those that are aware and open about their states in various dimensions of humanness. There is honesty and the potential for growth in the vulnerability of sharing. So I actively put myself in harms way to say that oversimplification here is harmfully inadequate. If you see it, please feel free to improve my chemistry by whatever means you have available. Actions are all that define you. To me, that is a wonderful action. I apologize if my abstractions and narrative are challenging to follow. My message is, I genuinely care for you as a person, and do not expect anything in return.