Posts by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
(DIR) Post #AHkdwXJFnmdKLbMPXU by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-03-24T21:44:46.683032Z
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@Andrii @cameron My usage works fine among enough friends and people I know :shrug:.You don't have to use the term yourself but you could consider at least not spreading faulty definitions around?
(DIR) Post #AI7PpMaGy7JP1Ujaoy by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-04-04T09:58:03.943735Z
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Take a Hint is a glorious happy ending romantic porn of a novel -- in the words of Zaf, knowing that there's a happy ending is not a spoiler but a safety net 😋The characters are well-done and the prose is full of sensuous metaphors that are quite a pleasure to read.I was wondering about fiction that explores how good things could get and Take a Hint suggests that romance novels are one shining example =Dhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4648258112
(DIR) Post #AI8l9nlftxNRJscAW8 by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-04-05T07:59:09.428891Z
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@Andrii Interesting. I can imagine being less incentivized to cultivate the land toward a distant horizon when aliens have arrived and introduce unpredictability :3:
(DIR) Post #AITReMbJ2aAzH8Dcwa by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-04-15T12:50:34.304916Z
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The post on my 4th paper: Make E Smart Again (after giving it a frontal lobotomy. I actually like the official short paper just fine:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-51054-1_26https://gardenofminds.art/research/make-e-smart-again/
(DIR) Post #AJ7jDQt0kJNKDCUCTQ by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-05-04T18:23:55.859882Z
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I decided to write up short posts on some research explorations that didn't make it to publication. This one didn't get much beyond, "Can XGBoost learn to decide subsumption?"https://gardenofminds.art/research/research-shorts-atp-for-hlai-and-can-xgboost-learn-subsumption/
(DIR) Post #AJZdS9Ylt3VlDCPeqm by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-05-18T07:49:24.792703Z
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Utilitarianism is quite epic.Mill makes many arguments I've wished to make about how virtues and ethical rules can be grounded in utilitarian analysis and vice versa.In setting the ground for analyzing ethics in terms of the aggregate of individual goods, Mill sets the stage for computationalism to truly enter the ethical domain.Which is the dream Leibniz sought after: "when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without further ado, and see who is right” (The Art of Discovery (1685)).It seems one intended purpose was to use utilitarian ethics to help guide government policy. (Which, as we are now aware, can lead to the fallacy of the greater good, yet still seems like a generally good idea ;D.)"The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it."Mill is very transparent about the fact that "ultimate ends" are difficult to argue for rather than accepting among one's first principles. However, "the utilitarian doctrine is, that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end."I view this as likely a misstep for "happiness" is at least in hindsight a notoriously vague catch-all term, well, if happiness is meant to encompass all that is desirable as a part, then, no shit it's amorphous. Confusing the motivational system with the content thereof 🤦♂️.Seems desire/preference utilitarianism is critiqued largely for not providing a clear decision procedure as to how to compare different people's desires. Mill generally does well to note that other ethical paradigms do not actually live up to this standard either (and where they claim to, there is often disagreement). Thus the conflict resolution is not manifest 🤷♂️.Given how short and concise the book is, I highly recommend it :- )https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4730693960
(DIR) Post #AJyYwdzz2aCQifTJjc by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-05-29T15:54:15.068683Z
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This is basically "Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets for Dummies". I rather enjoyed the overview as part of the quest to make more intuitive sense of these notions.https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6543
(DIR) Post #AKGQMalpuVZ5JXSWOW by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-06-07T14:59:40.406588Z
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Research post 8/9 on my PhD topic. This time the edgy topic of using ML to determine which clauses are fit to mate together. It's really cool to see how this worked fairly well given I'd been scratching my head wondering why no one had done it yet when learning about the field of Automated Theorem Proving.https://gardenofminds.art/research/parental-guidance/
(DIR) Post #AKknZqa8D1r0U5qEgi by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-06-22T16:14:20.495398Z
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https://gardenofminds.art/uncategorized/the-isabelle-enigma/The Isabelle ENIGMA. Research post 9/9.We finally tested whether our ML for guiding ATPs works on mathematical libraries other than Mizar. Yes. There are many curious details about translating between logical systems that go over my head but I tried to give a high-level overview ;D
(DIR) Post #AMd1WGAKXaISXkvINk by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-08-15T10:09:16.390458Z
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https://www.netflix.com/title/80998853The Surviving Death show was a decent complement to the book featuring interviews with people involved in the stories.RE: https://fedi.absturztau.be/objects/6023db8c-f330-4de5-9fb5-d0d752c6df82
(DIR) Post #AMhYD1L6eKZxDYpk0W by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-08-18T09:18:36.364176Z
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Hyperobjects is a feverish epic poem on struggling to make sense of being caught within global warming's grasp, as if witnessing a nuclear blast in slow-motion, knowing the speed will return before you know it, obliterating life as you know it. Once hyperobjects are known, the mundane ceases to be mundane. What is global warming? Can we talk about the weather without global warming lurking in the background? Can I wipe my behind without thinking of my resource usage a la ecological awareness? Nor is this "in my head": these entities are here whether we like it or not -- nay, they were here before we christened them. What of the microplastics of the oil hyperobject found in human blood? Benign? -- with us, either way.I enjoyed Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People much more and found it also gave a decent introduction to the concept. As with Humankind, one meaning seems to be to stretch one's conceptions to jiggle one into interacting and being with the world in a different way that may 'help'. One deep thrust is that standard environmentalist frames do not work and thus creativity must get a working :> https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4927415744
(DIR) Post #AMktJOaAO4hBAKgBrE by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-08-21T09:20:07.677978Z
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A very good conceptual overview of the basics of logic (validity, truth functions, quantifiers, descriptions, self-reference and dialethia, possibility, temporality, fuzzy vagueness, probability, inductive reasoning, and then halting and provability issues.)I saw a review complaining about Priest's analysis of the "first cause" argument, namely that arguments that "for every event, there is a cause to that event". The review didn't like the "mother" analogy, seeing it as "beside the point". Every human has a mother, right? But this doesn't mean that our mothers are the same! Likewise, even if every event has a cause, one may have a family of first causes ;- ). I quite like this point as somehow I don't think I heard it much when playing with the concept ages ago.The "law of indifference" also gets dealt with well -- when can we actually assign two cases "equal probability as we don't have sufficient information?"Quite short and fun :- )https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4933881696
(DIR) Post #AMqzEzeAv4sTLSb96m by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-08-23T18:51:10.772363Z
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Let all data be free. #LetAllDataBeFree #CopyLeftI've made the age-old realization that mantras are great when the point is obvious.#MayAllBeingsBeHappy #Mantra #Meditation #BuddhaSometimes you gotta repeat that slogan numerous times over millennia for the idea to land?
(DIR) Post #AO3cmMCMSpv5AcqZTk by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2022-09-29T12:48:52.607493Z
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The City and the Stars is quite a masterpiece tale of a 'future' humanity whose tone reminds me a lil bit of "Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future" by Olaf Stapledon (who died shortly after Clarke's first novel from whence this came).Alvin is a unique new human 'born' in a city that has a technological implementation of reincarnation for its citizens, guaranteeing them immortality (of the core patterns they elect to keep) so long as the Central Computer is operational. Diaspar is a microcosm unto itself that its citizens don't wish to leave (except for the unique weirdo xD).The writing style is pure joy to me :- )(view spoiler)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5015756710
(DIR) Post #AUVUUfN61yUbd47UsC by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-04-09T07:56:35.582426Z
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A fabulous book on Western philosophy from early Greek civilization to the founding of logical analysis. Dear Russell generally discusses the historical happenings to contextualize the philosophers among the concerns of their times. Russell describes the primary philosophical views of quite many bros and offers his own analysis of the issues at hand. Given I often find myself sympathetic to Russell, this is a feature 😉.Personally, I was the most ignorant of the Catholic Philosophers, so their contributions to Western thought were nice to hear.I also have an increased interest in reading In Praise of Folly (Erasmus), Utopia (More), and something of Hume or Spinoza.I'd highly recommend the book to those wishing for a brief overview of some standard philosophers.The scathing review of Nietzsche was amusing (perhaps worse than the general disregard for Hegel's philosophy)."He is so full of hatred that spontaneous love of mankind seems impossible""For my part, I agree with Buddha as I have imagined him. But I do not know how to prove that he is right by any argument such as can be used in a mathematical or a scientific question. I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-consistent ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end."https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5473123285
(DIR) Post #AV1eHXdTpURXQHMtY8 by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-04-25T19:35:23.389519Z
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Utopia is quite fun and relatable -- the storyteller is introduced among critiques of European civilization before telling the story of the island of Utopia where everyone lives well in harmony.We hear of their population management, governance, love for gardening, religion, defensive warfare, etc. Oh, they also have slaves, which you'll be if you commit adultery. It's quite interesting to see what is imagined as eutopic in the 16th century. It's not that different from what people may imagine nowadays. And it can be hard to imagine a eutopia without elements someone may find dystopic. Moreover, to what extent is a eutopia made by its people?https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510247653
(DIR) Post #AVDNXg5kn6WoxTDkW0 by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-04-30T16:10:34.968265Z
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I really enjoyed Island and was driven to intense laughter multiple times 😂😄.I find seeing an authentic attempt to sketch out a eutopic society and culture really refreshing :- ).An island where society focuses on human fulfillment over maximum production and yet still incorporates technology and science (to an extent). An island where even children are given the freedom to leave their parents' households due to having a MAC (a mutual adoption club) of 20 non-biological parents they can visit where each household may have its unique form of duties and customs. An island where birth control and decentralized eugenics (via artificial insemination and saving the sperm of exemplary men) are the norm for there's a need to maintain a balanced population. An island where moderate psychedelic medicine use is the norm, along with meditative practices. An island where the myna, talking birds, fly around reminding people to sink in to the here and now with attention and compassion ("karuna"). An island where sexuality and sensuality are openly appreciated for what they are. An island where education focuses on practical experience as well as intellectual development: how many of us have seen births and death by age 20? Or did we only read about them in theory? The setting is that a "journalist" is visiting the island, and the industrial powers wish to co-opt the island into their economy, which provides a contrast and a pretext for "getting to know" Pala.Is Island a perfect Eutopia? Perhaps not by my tastes. Yet it's a beautiful sketch.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5520342693
(DIR) Post #AWJOu8ZqlPwc4yUZRQ by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-05-31T18:12:09.570900Z
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@Andrii I wonder if that was the part with the spiritual ramblings. My impression is that the plot seemed to come apart at the seams by the end with a "quick ending as imperialist industrialists take over" when there could have been a more nuanced continuation :-o.
(DIR) Post #AWcEpRj7ASETS4LVTc by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-06-09T03:44:03.440273Z
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Yo, can you do the podcast on on Monday June 12 at 8am MST? If so, write us elsewhere before the opportunity expires :- )@Andrii
(DIR) Post #AYMAMZPIYMD6zLmQYi by zariuq@fedi.absturztau.be
2023-07-18T12:20:28.967025Z
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How does review the life of Casanova de Seingalt? It's interesting to read of a man's life in such depth. It's clear he meant it when he discusses amorous pleasures he'll always remember 😉.One's first 'surprise' is that Casanova has a way with words, so that the autobiography is a sheer delight to read. Oh, some may view him as a con artist, yet he will pride himself in his 'foxmanship' 😏😎.This one finds Casanova to be highly relatable, perhaps because we're both hardcore romantics: he'll do anything within his power for his loves (aside from marrying, egads, that's an impossibility for him!). Even when there are decades of quietude, reunion almost invariably rekindles fiery passions to worship at the citadel of love (unless she's turned ugly like a painted horror) 🙏.There were a few women Casanova seemed especially happy with (who tended to be both supremely beautiful and highly educated readers) -- probably he should have married one 😜. Alas, if that had been a wise possibility, maybe we wouldn't have the pleasure of reading his tales.The windows into 18th-century Europe are interesting: at least among the elites of society, lesbianism seems to be a widely accepted intrigue women will obviously simply enjoy. (*ok, to be precise, bisexuality among women.) The value of virginity often to be silently made a mockery of, rightly so. Villages where sexual freedom and orgies are commonplace -- why not? Even if they're not for Casanova. Duels to the death to protect one's honor? Sure. All the masked balls and operas are also interesting. It's impressive from how many regions and countries he'd been banished 😈.I wonder why Casavona's story is not more well-read by the MSSS (Men's Social and Sexual Skills) and PUA (Pick-Up Artist) communities. A lack of romanticism among these communities? Or the difficulty of translating an endearing biography into practicable skills? Or perhaps it's simply too long? I'd certainly recommend its perusal.The book contains a fair number of admissions of his own errors (which he can find difficult not to repeat). I was also impressed at how rigorously he stuck to strict diets to recover from STDs as promptly as possible!It seems Casanova only made love with 100-200 girls, which some consider not so many. He had a dislike for orgies and preferred the girls to be passionately into it with him, eschewing them if they were merely passively doing it in gratitude or purely for money. So clearly he's infamous for the type of girls he seduced than simply for the count. The line between prostitution and a man in love granting any favors he can to a woman seemed very thin in this era. There was definitely a lot of overly assertive behavior that would not be condoned in modern Western society: such as placing a girl's hand on one's dick and masturbating oneself if she doesn't object or pull it away. When discussing love-making with a girl from a non-monastic convent, Casanova says: "I have an infinite trust in the infinite mercy of God."On the topic of whether it would not have been better to abstain from falling in love for a few beautiful months only to lament at her departure: "There are sorrows so sweet they are almost joys."He's perhaps a bit of a hedonic utilitarian: "A philosopher is one who refuses no pleasures that do not beget greater sorrows." "I have always thought that there is no merit in being faithful to the one you love.". . . 🤓https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5701453982