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2024-09-19 21:20:06

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Don't leave out VR 😕

2024-09-19 21:17:54

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Check out Robert Lustig's talks on sugar (glucose, fructose). He has an explanation from the point of the digestive system that seems to make a lot of sense. He says, it's not all sugars but particular ones.

2024-09-19 08:58:27

I had the weirdest dream. It didn't even make much sense. Nothing much really happened.

2024-09-19 03:04:01

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Having up-to-date knowledge of the blockchain means each client knows which unspent transactions are available. When the next block arrives, each transaction's inputs can be compared to available outputs (unspent txns). Each unspent transaction is processed as a whole, so each is registered as spent exactly once, and a new transaction may redirect some "change output" back to the same owner if not everything is transferred.
Each bitcoin client will itself qualify each block to see if it checks out completely and onlu then is it accepted as part of the blockchain. That way, the blockchain can only be extended with valid blocks, i.e. no cheating/fraud permitted, verified by each bitcoin client. (Referring here to full clients that themselves process the blockchain.)

2024-09-19 02:33:22

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Okay. Here's where our understanding diverges. In my understanding:
1. Data is neither truth, nor objective. (Maybe "objective" in a very abstract definition, but I'm sure that isn't what you meant. That's why I call it a data-carrier.)
2. Meaning is not ascribed. It has to be derived. In the case of words, i.e. speaking - communication, by the receiver. The best we can do is for the speaker to choose the right words where a common understanding is able to express the correct intention/meaning precisely (as possible).
3. I understand why you say "[..] the lie creates reality [..]". But the thing is, it's only a *perceived reality* for the receiver only, because he is (accidentally or on purpose) misled. It is not universal reality because anyone not receiving does not have this awareness. That's why I pointed out that this creates contradictions. For example, let's say I convince you of something that's false. You believe it for a bit but then you find out it was bad information. For a while you perceived it as truth until you learned otherwise.
Now imagine you walk close to a large tower and someone in that tower drops an anvil that's going to land on top of you. There are no amount or selection of words that I can use, that change the effect that anvil crushing you will have. Reality is that the anvil will crush you. If I manage to convince you that this isn't the case, then you might expect something else, but only until reality sets in. You might not be afraid, because my words calmed you, but the anvil is just as heavy.
You might have mentioned other points, but I'll leave it at these first three for now.

2024-09-18 18:46:07

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Not every choice is about someone else. Some choices enable further improvement. This tactic is only beneficial for some goals.

2024-09-18 18:13:07

@nprofile…pyug any way to "mute" someone when their notes are received as part of tag subscription but to let it pass when someone reposts or replies, etc? (I.e. respect an "endorsement" of a note when coming from a follower?)
Intention is to silence someone who's spamming too much but respect my followers who might want to boost a particularly interesting note.

2024-09-18 17:01:27

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What's the point that you're making? Don't leave it implicit.

2024-09-18 16:09:39

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Except, truth is not the story malicipus people make of it, but the original story as it was intended. And lies must eventually bend to the truth. Give up, lying pieces of shit.

2024-09-18 15:18:35

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This isn't guaranteed to be a positive 😋

2024-09-18 11:20:58

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They're supposed to be a total banger.

2024-09-18 11:20:03

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I hear ya. I will not talk about non-free software around Richard Stallman.

2024-09-16 22:09:26

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In Stargate, in one episode, they discuss a truly universal language between aliens from vastly different races. The language is based off the abstract representation of atoms, as these are the only truly common ground/knowledge available for communication.

2024-09-16 21:53:13

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Okay, so let's discuss your questions.
"What data is being carried?" — whatever the idea/topic/concept is about. "Data" is the general term what it is that the sounds represent.
”Where is it stored?” — it is in the sounds of what is spoken, created in the mind of the speaker, possibly referencing memories or other sources directly or indirectly.
"How does this constitute meaning?" — that's the point: it doesn't. "Data" does not represent meaning. The listener needs to derive meaning, hopefully the correct meaning if sufficient context — prly common knowledge/ground — is provided. This is why there can be data without fact or truth. E.g. when I point to a horse and say to you "That is a unicorn.", I transmit through sounds this sentence as data. You can interpret it and know what I am saying, yet you also know it to be false.

2024-09-16 21:39:33

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Do not think you know the true story, when you hear the story indirectly and/or from unreliable or untrustworthy sources.

2024-09-16 16:41:38

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I think we're on track. I use "data" and "data-carrier" to indicate that it is about "data" before meaning and understanding is established, with "information" being data that has meaning established. (Unfortunately not guaranteed correct, just any meaning.)
"Facts" being data that is also established to be truthful, often corresponding to past events, such that you can point to them and if your interpretation is correct, it shows that the facts are truthful and possibly they themselves provide information. (If you point to a rock and say it's a rock, then your data is fact but it doesn't give you much information, it doesn't tell you much without any accompanying information or context.)
Now if you tell people things, those words carry data, but not necessarily truthful or correct or sensible. People who try to find meaning may succeed or fail, but that doesn't make the meaning they found reality. Similarly, that would mean reality is conflicting according to different people, i.e. different people's deviating interpretation.
You can mislead people to believe data is a particular facts or expresses particular information, but that doesn't make it true. It just makes you fool a person, and this person is fooled to believe it is true.

2024-09-16 15:31:34

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Let's call a hardcoded password a "flaw" 😋😂

2024-09-16 15:30:27

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I don't see your point. If people confuse data for reality, it doesn't become reality, is simply misleads people. There is a difference between data and facts. The difference between "data" and "information" is made explicit for the benefit of highlighting and emphasizing that meaning, interpretation and understanding are relevant.
Now you claim that just arbitrary data becomes reality, even if it can be proved incorrect. That's not true. What you're actually saying is that people can be misled.

2024-09-16 00:32:44

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Now to figure out who actually deceived us.

2024-09-15 18:51:42

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No of course words aren't facts. They're a means of communication, (partial?) data-carriers.