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Laeserin @Laeserin - 31m
Other good things are archery, or joining the volunteer fire department or community clean-up crew.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 46m
Hiking is always good. Try taking a long walk to an actual destination. But also remember that winter is supposed to be a time when humans have quieter, more contemplative lives. So, maybe read more books or carve wood.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 2h
It's always funny, how people are offended at how much influence I have upon the protocol and the developers, but they are missing the point that I've taken the time to FIGURE OUT HOW THESE THINGS WORK. Knowledge really is power, and knowledge within yourself is the greatest power.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 3h
But it ends with more advanced questions. Why learn how relays work? Why learn how code is compiled or interpreted?
I've noticed this, my whole life. I've continued to do activities that everyone else abandoned -- or even added new ones -- and now I look like a universal genius. But it is simply that I persist, even when automation is superior, because I think the honing of mind and body is too valuable to capitulate to the machines. At the same time that I always learn to also leverage the machines. And this, ironically, is precisely what keeps me ahead of the machines, and independent of machines. It begins with very simple questions. Why learn to play an instrument or read music? Why learn to read anything, at all?
I like how our team has been approaching LLMs as a form of complementary navigation or leveraging of, or preparation for, human curation. A symbiosis for the advancement of the human, rather than the machine.
You can already see people standing in front of a well-stocked pantry and kitchen, decrying that there is nothing to eat.
Yes, I can sort of see that. That the proper use of tools is to allow humans to become more efficient, not to replace them or make them obsolete, so humans should always work in parallel with their tools and refine their tools and expand their tools. Interact with their tools or leverage their changes to their tools by surveying. They shouldn't fall for the fallacy that the Creation can be greater than the Creator.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 4h
Fascinating how his arguments make it clear how radical anarchists and communists actually share the same underlying disdain for human nature, with its social relationships and mutual obligations. They just respond differently: one through disassociation, the other through domination. They've both found a way to make "not caring about other people" into a virtue.
It's the tyranny of scale and increasing marginal utility. If a human can do the task in 3 seconds and the machine in 3 nanoseconds, the human is to COMPLETELY ABANDON THE TASK. But, then, the human unlearns the task and will require the computer to perform it, going forward.
Soon they will say, good thing we have computers to read and curate written text and search the Internet, since humans are too stupid to do so. But humans used to read and search the Internet. It was real. I was there. I am a witness.
Robots take over physical labor. Humans engage in less physical labor and physically atrophy. Everyone says, Good thing we have the robots, to do that, since humans can't do it. But humans were doing it, before.
All of the strongest men I personally know IRL do not go to the gym, but their hands are rough and calloused. That's all I'm saying.
But, really, from that article from nostr:nprofile1qqs8qy3p9qnnhhq847d7wujl5hztcr7pg6rxhmpc63pkphztcmxp3wgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgmwaehxw309a6xsetxdaex2um59ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz9nhwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un89uqaujaz : >>As the space for intelligent human action gets colonized by machines, our own capacity for intelligent action atrophies, leading to calls for yet more automation.<< Can we not say the same for physical action?
Theoretically, robots are more efficient than humans. Practically, humans are paying money to exert or suppress their energies in an unproductive manner and then also paying for robots to do what the humans previously did.
If you feel the urge to go to the gym, every day, have you considered transitioning to some other, more productive, form of physical labour, instead? Why is this not a thing?
Well said.
Younger women, especially the immature ones, seem to focus on proxies of what they're looking for; second-order signals. Yes, things that others point out to them, as desireable, because they're easy to recognize and therefore to market. And they're things you can add to a checklist, rather than more complex traits, that only become evident over time and with discernment. Superficial evidence of deeper characteristics that don't exist.
Laeserin @Laeserin - 5h
I was thinking about that, with the gym thing. Everyone wondering why you don't go to the gym, every day, while renovating a house and caring for your family, and walking and working outdoors. My dear, sweet summer children: The gym only exists to mimic the physical movements required to live a full, productive life. It is not an end, in and of itself.
Yeah, that's the thing. I'm unusually strong, for a woman, but no chance. Also, that skeleton. Moving furniture, I was torturing myself, trying to grasp things with my little hands. Kept dropping everything and everyone was exasperated. Or I'd pick up a big, heavy box and had to carry it at chin height to climb the stairs, so that I can raise my knees to the steps, which is BRUTAL. And I was struggling with one 30 kg box, at a time, and the guys climbed past me with THREE. And the long-arm leverage, is real. My baby has shoulders literally twice as wide, as mine. I was using a telescope to paint a high ceiling, but both of my hands were on the lower-third, so it was like I was just swiping past. I couldn't press upward and roll, could just sort of poke, so it was like I was stamping.
