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Imagine you are infected. Its not lethal. Just different. The air smells like chocolate. And you get hypnotized and high- by fire. But is not dangerous- after all- all you know are infected. Your family. Your tribe. The whole world is infected, so anyone not infected, would be "sick" objectively.

So every day, you gather what you can find, and you carry it to the pile. The pile is a never ceasing fire, burning in a mile high chimney, errected in competitions among tribes. Its hard to ignore- all those walking towards the firestorm, carrying sacrifices- once the sunrise and sunset mass orgasm subsides.

Maybe you found coal, you have talent, you are worthy, you can feel the burning envy of the others. The one left to you, carries some brushes, the one right to you carries a struggling fat deer. Oh, how it will burn, oh the joys.

All of you have the mycelium behind your eyes- that spark never to cease. At the distance, some youths howl insults at the caravan, not strong enough to carry yet, dismissing the joys of the front row out of jealousy. They will find something, find their place, they will wake up to the joy, carrying some dehydrated, light husk to the pillar of awe. Even now they are hiding some candle or torch.

You slough towards the heat, some sweating the ash off, some collapsing, even in spasms- the eye on the inferno and its priests. Some are deprived off the joy, to deliver coolant, to maintain roads or shovell ashes. The joyless, you pity them- you hit them if they come between you and the pyre. Then the orange fills the world, joy is you, and you dance, forward, backward. Foam is on your mouth. Till you collapse from your body giving way. A Joyless carries you home, some lonely replaceable hole, in a well organized dessert, a empty cave in the anthill on a empty plain - where you, where you all sleep. For tomorrow, before dusk you will rise.

You will walk out into the inferno- telling yourself, that you are pure. One of the lucky few, to be burned away, for another day. You are the burning men. You always wanted this.

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If i remember, the distribution in men is greater. (https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-scottish-iq-...)

Also the expression of neuro-diversity is usually more severe (do not have a linke for that one).

While we are at it, can we talk about the loop deformation, too?

Aka, evolution as a blind machinery, adapting humanity to the cycle of strife, by allowing neuro-diverse speacilizations to exist, which in turn try to propagate the circumstances they thrive in.

Thanks to science, we had a nice 90 years of surplus and plenty, basically bribing ourselves out of natures grasp. Now the whole messy affair returns with a vengance, and it will be interesting to see, if leviathan-cybernetics ( aka societal implants (cellphones, self-surveilance etc.)) can reign the forces of the old world in, were wishfull thinking and society regulation mechanisms (religions, rules, etc.)fail.

I wondered, have any others been expected, to reverse the interview direction? As in ask the company manangment, sales and tech ceos, to answer your test scenarios?

"You have developed a new product with broad market appeal, and sales already found you a huge first customer, which would secure you for years to come. In return they expect you to tailor the product to there needs. How do you react?"

It sounds mad, but it seems somehow to be expected by some. Like they expect you to test your company for warning flags as thoroughly as they test you..

What good are strict bans, if they are subverted and ignored on a regular basis? China already had a wild animal trade ban after SARS and yet, here we are. The only thing that can solve this, is actual medical education, eradicating this witchcraft traditional medicine...

We Pulse-Wide-Modulate a case rate that is just soo below what the strained public health system can take, prioritize the most important economic systems slowly back to life and hope that the vaccazines come just in time to end this nightmare.

After that reforms. Lots of them.

Thats why you can combine them with relational operators. And then find sets of those combinables that can produce the desired output for most of the time.

That is ones library. It can be adapted to the task.

Yeah, Conways compression- any dataset can be encoded into a deterministic game, where upon to restore it is a easy adjustable tradeoff of computation, stored presets and relational operations.

So, the bonus point is to find subsets of relationally related games, that can become the parent.

I found the dispossed to be actually a hard sci-fi novel, when it comes to people. The truth is that many people want emotional-porn, disguised as worthy literature which allows for "felt" adventures without actual challenges to the mental cosmos.

I still wait for actual hard-social-sci-fi - but its author(ess) would be hunted down the streets by the mob. Because humans are deeply flawed, and exploring those bugs and the hacks used by meta-organisms (like companys & states) would make for a thoroughly uncomfortable read.

TL,DR: There is very little hard, uncomfy social scifi. Because we rage when dragged out of our mental comfort zones.

You are wrong, but not downvote worthy wrong. Lets put a artificial cube around the ship, that teleports npcs back to a safe start location (lets call it there bunk).

Now you created a whole zoo of new troubles, including a whole set of troubles you cant even predict, because you didnt know about them when you made this giant default behaviour case.

if (specific case){

} else (everything else that could ever happen, inlcuding all future edgcases){

// here be dragons

}

Examples? Leveldesigner adds elevator, that transports player and npc ocassionally outside of the teleport box.

Skybox entitys are npcs that live outside of the box- so space battle npcs, get telported to bunks..

etc. etc.

Handling the unknown - with any other paradigm then the fail early, fail loud - is the root of evil.

Fanboism that kills is generally frowned upon, by all those who work in majured safety relevant industries. We do hop all the safety hurdles every day, for very good reasons- and to call these proofen right processes slow by someone who lives only because they exist- it has a certain sting to it.

Speedy development is all fun and games, until your luck runs out and you toast a whole highway filled with familys in one afternoon.

After that, nobody is going to hold cheery fanbois liable who enabled this culture. No, it will be engineers, who where forced to make fast decisions. Remember Toyota-Bar - why dont you justify your senseless optimism, in the face of physical danger and accidents, to the victims of sloppy development?

Why is the burden of proof not on you? After all that blood at least should be on your hands.

My brother new by profession alot of the paper cartographing crowd. They where absolutly blown away by google maps. The concept, that somebody would freely give away satellite images, the gold coins of cartography, was beyond imagination for them.

Sometimes i think, this was the plan behind the piracy support by some companys for some time. Disrupt the media companys and then take over.

Supply what others depend on for free - and wait until the industry collapses, then rule the wastelands.

Is not really factory produce-able like original ciabatta- cause one part of the recipe that makes the taste, cant be effectively integrated. Its time. You need little yeast, you put the poolish in a olive-oil covered cup, and put it somewhere cool. And there it stays - for nearly a day. Then you add flour- and let it slowly come all the way. Then for all your work you get little bread. But it tastes oh so good. French bakerys - have a very limited supply of baguetts - because they have limited space to let the dough ripen for a hour or more (if it ripens cold). https://bakerbettie.com/french-baguette-recipe/

Not interesting on a industrial scale.. which is why you usually get only the tasteless whitebread you usually get.

Okay, can you vaccacinated the trees- make them useless to lumberjacks? As in give them a bad scent, taint them with a colour, so that they are visibly not worth anything to the market, without cutting them down?

I never hear about nature catching up to us- its always defeated and in the corner, we remain dominant. But as soon as society crumbles, meet those creatures and plants we couldnt get rid off- hyper adapted to resist us. Plants to which we are extremely allergic, who are resilient to all herbizides and selective bred for maximum spread into our ecologic niche. Animals, who by virtue of surviving in information dense environments, are very stealthy- and very clever. Carrying out of knowledge or instinct diseases and allergic contagions, to drive us further back into domes. Most of our companion animals/plants unable to dwell in the open in the overheated world we created. All the resources we had for the first attempt gone- no easy to reach oil, the best mines old landfills and destroyed citys.

To return from such a dark age, seems unlikely.

Empires corrupt incentives- you dont have to compete, if your buddy in government can "force" your contract into external markets you own.

This "shield" hides the lack of risk taking away from the general public - after all the buisness seems to boom - meanwhile the actual wealth creators & innovators go soft or go elsewhere.

In the final phase, when there is actual resistance/competition to those shody practices, the thin fassade crumbles inwards, reavling nothing but corruption and accumulated incompetence.

Thank you for the reasonable discussion contribution, a rare thing around the fourth.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19496773.pdf

Well according to this paper lohc still has a better energy density then batterys and we would loose the recharge waits. Also existing infrastructure could be reused and it allows the indefinite storage and transport of renewables, if created at source with no additinal conversion loss.

As far as i know there are several varieties in research - with one condensend form (which isnt liquid- sorry im not really a expert on this) - beeing a factor 10 energy denser.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09268...

I think this one is the paper.. I can not say how serious these technologies are driven. The trad car companies have a lot to loose when the car is reduced to 4 engines and a steering wheel.

I still think lithium ion batterys have some use- as birthing help to alternatives, who would otherwise be stuck in development hell.

My brother works at bmw, the problem is not that they dont see electric as the future, the problem is, that they see batterys as a dead end for cars. They are a ecological disaster to manufacture, have a limited life-time and are very slowly improving and have overall just taken off, because other industries basically carried that market.

If they could make the economics of scale happen, they would rather prefer something like lohc as energy carrier.

http://www.framatome.com/customer/liblocal/docs/KUNDENPORTAL...

Its storageable hydrogen, so its the natural product of decentralized renewable energy production. It has not recharge time, no battery decay. Only problem is- there is nothing but the car-industry who wants this.

Eh, was that rule not circumvented with conway? You can compress more data into a given numeric format, by moving the complexity into rule systems- aka determinstic games? Like a big number of chess games, or a group of possible games growing from just a sequence of letters and numbers.

The tradeoff for this limited space is though a complex ruleset and to recreate the data, lots of computation.