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i feel like it might be a good career move to no longer be running in a Republican primary.
[new draft post] The long fistbump https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/05/08/the-long-fistbump/index.html
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @jawnsy Hello, world!
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @jawnsy Hello, world!
@jawnsy yes but the behavior is as yet undefined.
in stevelang blank files will be legal and defined to compile to a program that emits “Hello, world!” to the console.
the stevelang specification is this toot long, and already it has the shortest hello world.
Please make sure it is signed by the required date.
@Pinchy63@mstdn.ca @gardenvarietylinguist i get them when i have too many browser tabs open on mastodon.
now that we know what went wrong, we wish we could go back in time and make different things go wrong.
@Mikle_Bond there's not always! not everybody will "get it", or will even care to try.
but the path should be open, clear, welcoming, encouraging, transparent to the people who might be inclined, who are many more than would get formally educated into more opaque systems.
photograph of characters Lokai and Bele from Star Treak, the original series, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". see https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield_(episode)
The weird thing is that, under contemporary moral pathologies, open borders offered as refuge from vicious discrimination in a source country might be characterized as complicit accommodation of ethnic cleansing. Refusing refuge might, as Egypt's Sisi put it, be characterized as necessary to prevent "liquidation" of their cause, assertion of their rights at home.
#HaroldMeyerson on why US choices a century ago sit at the roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. https://prospect.org/world/2024-05-06-who-created-israel-palestine-conflict/
@djc i think the scenario here is drifting away without the sharp pain of visibly dying. so even if a loved one one actively engages with will (at least for a little while) be hard to simulate, loved ones who reply eventually to mails and messages, even answer the phone, but don’t talk long, stay distant, might be harder to distinguish from the real thing. the goal is just (false) proof of life, to pass a turing test wellness check, not actively take over a person’s relationships.
@LesterB99 but would people who otherwise might be deterred from planning plan? are you saying a person would already have your be so motivated that nothing would deter them? what if it’s not so hard, if letting your avatar “sub” for you becomes a pretty normal thing?
@LouisIngenthron but of course if they themselves are trying to fool you, the changeling will have the password.
@LouisIngenthron (i agree outside of the morbid domain of suicide agreeing to verbal passwords is an oddly practical way to defy all kinds of mischief and as you say just sadness that could come from being simulable. it’s already useful in the context of ransom scams.)
@mycrowgirl yeah. masking is hard work! but it can perhaps be automated. suicide is unethical for the damage it does to those left behind. but gently fading from an in-person human to an avatar of occasional digital interaction is normal now, what we do to one another all the time. if the former can be masked as the latter, is it still as unethical?
when you can simulate a self so well even loved ones can’t tell it isn’t you, what’s that going to do to the suicide rate?
"You actually end wars by making peace too valuable to miss out on." #VenkateshRao #vgr https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/war-rooms-and-peace-rooms ht @akkartik