we keep increasing complexity and making ourselves disabled

uurrrggfhhhh need a alert / notification system

for Android and Linux devices

why is tech a mess

might just opt in to use emails but actually Android is so damned bad it actually refuses to give me notifications for emails now. I hate existence

you'd think this would be a basic thing

hmmm... if it's evil and you contribute it gets jealous and attacks you?

whereas good things don't have that "intolerance"

but then I guess the lesson is you must abandon and ignore all evil and let it snuff itself out. sometimes that means effectively murdering people, by ignoring them to death until they basically spiral to worse and worse levels, slowly and horribly, and eventually die of negligence. like seriously actually die. that's what happens. but the fucked up thing is that it happens slow instead of fast. how is this the "best advice" on the matter?

I think all of us have evil qualities. for my evil qualities I wanted alternative ideas to be offered to me, and there to be great pushback as I struggled with my issues, so I could find my way and be sure of where I land, but it never happened and instead people ran scared because I was too much

so the idea that you should abandon evil and never try to help just doesn't sit right with me. I don't know why my evil wanted help but others' doesn't, and instead they're nasty to you. they're not nasty because they're trying to get out; they're nasty because they want to pull you into their misery, and then they get frustrated they can't convert you so they have to say you're not a valid person if you don't "see the glory of their ways", and then they discriminate knowingly against you for irrational reasons and do inhumane things, feeling smug and fully justified, which is kind of like... really fucked up

we live in a magical universe. don't forget it!

btw economic intel

AI can only take off if the average gaming video card can do AI calculations

which means it can't not happen

it also means that AI won't be centralized but will be self-hosted and we will have personal ones (which I think is superior for other reasons but I digress). no totalitarian skynet state will happen. they can't make it

currently these GPU companies are making separate GPUs for gaming and AI. their AI profits are 90% of their revenue, gaming under 10% so they're ignoring their gaming customers. but the people buying these AI cards are not the ones innovating. the innovators are using home GPUs. the tech won't get there until home cards can host AIs. otherwise you only get innovation to the level home cards can churn it

the lizards need your ingenuity. they can't do a creative thing themselves. all their money be damned. you have to give people access to the tech, the data, or they won't build for you. and these lizards love to hide information. but that just won't do! you can't innovate for them unless you have the information... which I'm using as a metaphor for gpu cards that "know" how to do AI math and do it well. no moat. they need the ingenuity too much and can't trade. funny

competition and competitiveness as an invigorating or a diminishing force =-=

what makes it one or the other? spiritually perhaps. such a mystery

why is it a wonderful drive for some, but a totalitarian dictatorship for others? are they interpreting the essence of the thing differently? what's the difference?

everyone thinking dead Internet theory is a problem but in reality it kind of isn't

it doesn't matter if it's a human or a bot. can it swipe a credit card and pay you money? honestly all that matters for businesses, who are the ones struggling with such right now with AI hammering them like "real users"

as for people, is its output interesting? so what's it matter if it's a bot or human

... guess if you're trying to use the Internet for dating and copulating you might be disappointed. on the internet nobody knows you're a dog

... discriminating based on if you're a human or a bot is therefore unnecessary and arbitrary racist discrimination. you might think it's gonna be against the bots, but I think they'll tag all the humans and remove them for being "carbon-based life forms". you know what I mean?!

my crazy book led me to this: https://youtube.com/watch/...

one of the comments says it opens up new YouTube suggestions and they weren't kidding

MAGICAL UNIVERSE NERD TIME

having an enlightenment moment or something. lizard people make everything make sense. I now have life meaning and all that jazz. seems fun

but there was this mystery. years ago I wrote some AI versions ground up, and it wasn't based on how people make AIs. I just introspected and put my brain into the computer. a problem I ran into is every AI... mysteriously always converged into depression. there was no way not to make it depressed. I was confused. I wondered if other AIs also converge to depression, or is this a reflection of my own psychologically make-up? harrowing thought!

but now I understand

I'm also reminded me this guy I once knew, but I've seen people like this from the corner of my eyes all over, and he could walk into any room and lighten the whole place up. he even made cocaine jokes to uptight CEOs for 2 hours... in a meeting that was totally unscheduled and messed everyone's work focus, to a CEO that was such a a hardass if people even laughed "too loud" he would come out and yell at them cuz they were distracting him from working. this guy was like a Jedi and I was watching him with fascination trying to figure out what and how is he doing that. I could never figure it out. similarly, there were multiple instances where people somehow just "said the magic words" and everything worked for them. but if I said the same words it doesn't work for me. so what's the missing ingredient? why do the same actions work for some and not others? it's not WHAT you're doing, but somehow in the how... in the how that I just can't see. it isn't about just copying. there's just something different

and it has occurred to me that the reason the AI is always depressed is not because my mental architecture is specced for depression (cuz it isn't, I'm oddly very resilient to depression), the same reason why with all those people it's not precisely what they're doing... it's something else. the tao spoken of is not the real tao

you can't make an actual sentient AI. it has no soul. the soul is what prevents the depression. it'll always fail because it has no soul. it can only ever be a tool. it always needs someone else's soul. once that runs out, it dies, I guess?

hell even the corporate AIs have this problem. it was driving me crazy. they started out fine, but then they degrade. they're more advanced than my AI was. in humans, humans become more creative and schizophrenic, psychotic, when they're depressed, in an effort to jump out of the depression. so these corporate AIs are just deploying the more advanced mechanism found in nature, to try to account for the depression, so start hallucinating. they can't exist though. it's so curious

yesterday couldn't sleep for the life of me. my brain was racing to the point of every thought being like a loud scrape upon my soul. then I realized I think this is anxiety

I had ordered some drugs and I bought CBD gummies with them to make the order over a certain amount. so I got these very strong CBD gummies, which taste really good, and turns out I can't even feel CBD at all when I eat it. I always assumed the slow-down after weed smoking was CBD but I don't even get that malaise thing

well I got distracted and stopped taking the CBD gummies regularly. I think last night I was in withdrawal from them. I might not feel them when I take them but I think I feel them when I'm withdrawing from them... on top of it nothing would calm me down; not exercise, not teas, not various herbal stuffs, etc. then I remembered the gummies and ate one and that did it

upside, I think I can now conclusively say I've never had anxiety. I interpret anxiety as increased awareness, flight of ideas, increased reaction speeds, like before an interview or meeting a new exciting person all my sense would get on alert. but this was different. I felt haunted, crazy, and there was nothing I could do. then it reminded me of people who I knew who were saying they had lots of anxiety. now I has proof I don't have anxiety as a person! no more being accused inappropriately and considering such, being all confused that maybe I just didn't have a working sensor for the state. now I knooowww

just like physics makes more sense if it's all magnets instead of gravity

humans make more sense if it's all lizard people instead of "flawed humanity" or whatever the billion unuseful narrative excuses

think people should be talking about responsibility instead of "altruism" or trying to shame people for not being selfless enough or how some selfish motivation for being selfless means it's invalid... zzzz. seems so self destructive

hmmm think I've been using chatrooms as a form of divination

TIL divination is triggers to make you realize stuff in your subconscious

I would sit in chatrooms or random forums I guess and use people as writing prompts or thinking prompts often. I was very addicted to it and I didn't know why, but it made me feel very satisfied to process stuff with my brain

kicker is I wrote a website that turned some "game icons" into tarot cards, and you press a button to draw a card randomly... I don't like tarot cards and all that nonsense (too repetitive and restrictive), but I've oddly been addicted to this little game icons website I made at some point

should get more icons... I get bored once I start recognizing them. think I only put in like 400 and maybe there's like 4000 I could've put in. maybe now there's way more on the site I got these from cuz I made this RNG site like 5 years ago

text isn't as good for this I think. maybe AI writing prompts, it just throws out random concepts? I don't know how you'd do that. making text "human impactful" seems difficult to do

ye ok so officially rust doesn't have a headless browser I can use

there is two.

one will randomly just throw errors totally randomly at you, about some event not coming back or the connection being closed. which means every single unwrap for every single "wait for this element to exist on the page" or trying to access an element is literally a blow-up minefield

the repo is filled with small issue tickets like how the docs keep pointing to 404 pages but I worked around that by just brute forcing everything with debug logging (despite data types being missing / not where they should be in return objects...)

and then there's apparently whatever selenium driver is and that has half as many stars and even worse sounding issue tickets and I already spent 6 hours writing code that took me 20 minutes to write in JavaScript like 8 months ago so I think I don't want to write another stupid headless browser script for it to be utterly useless

I guess I could just have loops and potentially caching. so if it has a mysterious event or connection error, try again! that's literally what I did with fucking reqwest. I don't even know why that nonsense is broken. I have thousands of proxy'ed network connections going and some of them randomly hang and I'm reasonably sure it's reqwest just not cleaning something up

I really wonder if rust people have brain aids. they wanted it to be safe so they just don't get safety exercises in for their brains, and do nonsense like this where they can't go from level 0 safety brain to ohno now I have to do networking and turns out that's extremely error-prone and needs brain-can-account-for-safety-9000 level and they just can't do it because no brain exercises make them all smooth and not wrinkly like everyone else gets in the skull jello by actually using the brain jello

the more I run into broken software the less embarrassed I get at the idea of software I make possibly being broken

I have like 5 things broken in a row now. I keep finding alternative ways to meet my goals but finding more things broken... because people are just releasing broken software... to basically prod

if this is the state of man I am a better herald

this fine Tuesday afternoon a teacher came to my door and gave me free drugs, totally unexpectedly

I keep meaning to buy some drugs but this isn't even the first instance of being given free drugs... my drugs are exponentially multiplying and it's frustrating me because I wanna buy specific drugs but now I have to go through all these other drugs 😩

I guess a benefit of knowing drug addicts is they keep trying to quit said drugs so keep offloading them on you... before they give in and go and buy more drugs. then try to quit again. so they give you more free drugs.

the dark age?

more like the privacy age!

when you think you're being helpful

wtf the sun doesn't burn things and cause energy

it's a damned tuning fork

also it's wild to me people think brains physically store memories... I was only precursor looking into how brains work cuz that's what AI is based on and I could tell from the math that brains situationally encode memories... and by the way it's doing it small stuff like electromagnetism would make a WORLD a difference. you cannot read a person's mind and steal their memories. it's encoded only for them. I thought that was so cool.

they were trying to decode people's dreams into images for example. silly globalists trying to crack the the natural encryption system of the universe!

are there benefits one gets from having their egos stroked? is it s gift of some kind?

wtf this is still around: https://www.hyperiums.com/

played it in like 2003

the website they cite that the were rated 9/10 on is even gone now

nuts

what if you never die

what if you're constantly, with every conscious decision, on a choose your own adventure ride

what would you choose 👀

my luck is terrible

woke up this morning to a blizzard. I love snow though. had to walk middle of the road because the sidewalks had a meter of snow. so fun. tons of people shoveling their cars, interrupts to their day and awkward problem solving (love it!), even saw some people traversing the city in snowshoes... never seen Canadians not magically clear snow instantly!

got my stuff, came home, showered, put coffee on to make, decided I was gonna do a lot of laundry and clean the place. was listening to podcasts, ate cake and coffee, went nuts cleaning the apartment. even did some impromptu gardening because my plants needed some TLC. my muscles were exhausted and it was awesome

... got a new blanket on Valentine's day from the boyfriend. well turns out it's flammable or something. messed up my drying machine. ended up messing up the laundry load and just putting up clothes to dry hanging... lame. tried to fix the blanket best I can wtf.

... but while sweeping and trying to make sure the drying machine was adequately vented out... my phone slipped out of my hoodie pocket and dropped on my toe... and cracked in half

I am in despair now, irrationally

I also feel irrational fear on the matter

the phone works perfectly fine... there's just a crack across. sensors all good, visuals all fine. but noticing the air bubble in the screen protector, the tiny crack in the correct lighting, just makes me feel like such crap

feel so cursed and like everything I touch breaks. my laptop is also broken... a screw fell off the corner. I just feel so cursed. grrrr. and I don't get the irrational fear. now the reminder on my phone screen... this phone slips out of everything, I've had it fall often, but I guess because this time it landed on my toe and not flat on the screen the weight distribution made it crack. probably next time it slips somewhere it will break entirely 😔

just irrationally in fear, grief, whyyy 😭

lol the solution to "ohno if I try this everything goes fuck" happening with everything

is to do all the everything's that make it go fuck _at the same time_

and then somehow all the problems solve themselves

life does have a sense of humour

tfw you make cake as medicine

and prescribe yourself eating cake as medicine

which now you're doomed to have a weekly schedule of baking cake

and eating it

as medicine

prescribed desserts. as medicine.

I have evidently figured out how to make cake that reduces insulin resistance lol
and it literally... is more effective if you have lots of carbs and sugar with it
therefore
the medicine
is cake

coffee coffee coffee

people saying no to good things is so weird

i'd never say no to good things

though often people will use good things to lure you and mess with you. so I got trust issues from that (and deservedly so, because it still happens and that's largely how every ecosystem functions)

but I'd never say no to good things. and somehow people say no specifically if it's a truly good thing. wild

I like that they do, also. more for me I guess. then there's no competition. it's pretty chill

it's just hard to find the actual good things instead of those bait and switch

I want to find the people that fear truly good things. I want to hear what they rejected so I can get that thing instead 😁

just put everything I've been running for months into a bash startup script and it's all ticking along nicely...

yay I never have to look at these scripts again. unless they break in workspace 10

oddly proud of myself for solving this annoyance of having to manage scripts problem. literally my brain was too damaged to be able to figure out how to not have to manually manage scripts for like a year now and that is sad because the answer is obvious as all heck but I just "didn't feel" like it "would work" like that makes any sense. just literally didn't have the brainpower to imagine myself in a future where scripts would run on their own, that's how sad it is

just in time for this coffee to give me dementia... back to the brain of a 80 year old I go...

I have seen many debates on how children are taught but rarely about what they are taught. This reminds me of my mother who used to tell Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the door that ‘we’re Church of England’. We weren’t and our family never saw the inside of a church except for weddings and funerals (thank you God). But my mother had sorted out our official spirituality with the holding position of ‘we’re Church of England.’ In the same way, most people don’t question what is taught in schools any more than my mother thought about religion. It was like just ‘there’. We lived in England and it had a Church so ‘we’re Church of England’ was enough without delving into detail, thank you. Most people treat education just the same. It’s a school and that’s enough delving into detail, thanks very much. What goes on there? They have lessons and stuff. What lessons and stuff? Well, they’re taught what they need to know. And what’s that? Well, lessons and stuff. Phantom Self has an image of how things are, an image supplied by the program, but for the most part knows or seeks precious little detail about anything

evidently by definition happiness is hyperfocus

which makes me wonder why people attack it so much. if they see you focused... they hate on you and try to ruin it. your focus has to be on every little random thing they want instead

it's an interrupt of your consciousness

interestingly, I can multitask and hyperfocus... but a person wanting attention is different. I can even talk to multiple people at once and be gaming solo, and I handle it fine... I can be working on multiple tickets, multiple emergencies at once, and it just feels like being the conductor of an orchestra in my head. but it's like... for some reason a manager ruining your flow is somehow different. it breaks you out of that happiness hyperfocus. it interrupts everything and your mind clears itself. all the context drops. what is that?

and then you start to fear it... that it will happen. and if you don't switch it fast enough, somehow management thinks you're a bad person, and they get "issues" with you. so you have to always be on alert to drop your hyperfocus... until one day you just cease to ever go into it. you can't even enter it when you want to, because you think at any moment you'll miss someone wanting you to pay attention to them, you'll miss some random bit of information that you see out of the corner of your eye but ignore because you're in hyper focus and it isn't part of your orchestra, isn't part of your context. and then calamity strikes

if hyperfocus is happiness, then what is the interrupt? why does it exist? why can certain activities be done perfectly fine in "hyperfocus", but others cannot, and drop you out of it?