l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

@L29Ah что-то такое нужно: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/autodocodec-schema-0.2.0.1/docs/Autodocodec-Schema.html#t:JSONSchema

@L29Ah ты ж небось хочешь с генериков жсон-схему генерить. Да даже если и просто руками, то всю схему придётся затаскивать.

I've almost procrastinated writing this episode down because the most expected outcome of it would be "the post is flushed down the social stream with only a few eyes to see it ever". And it was kinda pre-disappointing.

But I couldn't stop thinking it through and it still kinda writes itself in my head.

Meanwhile I recall that I had quite a reach for one of my works this year, so this isn't just a numbers game. And the problem of doing *anything at all* is actually one of the challenges in that post-human adventures (thankfully explored in Permutation City, Diaspora, 31 laws of fun, etc).

So, challenge... not accepted. Not yet. Something is missing still. So I just browsing idly on the viability FP32 precision for modelling orbital maneuvers and...

...

Unfortunately I can't remember how I managed to actually start typing, sorry.

Perhaps having a Fediverse client on a muscle memory and the learned anticipation of randomized reward from reading it (keep up the good work, all y'all!) made me open it. And then a typing box helpfully focused in a client was presented in a prominent position. I'm not sure, but whomever designed that - I'm grateful to them.

This IMO brings some evidence against efficacy of using Skinner boxes to alleviate low-energy mood swings.

🙈 See no idler 🙉 Play no idler 🙊 Make no idler

I've found I would make a bad Jedi. A game character I've been playing was involved with some mystery amulet and been stuck in a time loop for a while. After refusing to just die and pass away for long enough I've been contacted by an Evil and asked to embrace it. In a split-second it took to consider I managed to lodge a justification and accepted the contract like an EULA (EoLA?). So, yeah, apparently I'm a sucker for the dark side.

That made me consider my life choices and whether I would do something like that to avoid death and go on with my post-human adventure.

Beyond that spicy moment of flavor, the game is actually quite barebones. Just a few skills to level and jobs to take. Yeah, that and getting a "Holy" job title despite clearly turning into an abomination. An ironic non-turn of events. Anyway, the flavor text clearly describes the position as being extremely violent - while getting a shitty pay raise, but allowing about 3 OOM increase in constant happiness level (mediated by a rental agreement and a skill of not giving a flying fuck AKA meditation).

So yeah, it's a "number go up" Skinner box, a never-ending crescendo of a Shepard Tone. Like many other games like that out there. And this one too is "out to get you".

But, just like the virtual light bulbs run on real electricity, that virtual character sacrificed my real soul to perpetuate their existence. How truly evil of them!

TBH I'm prone to be sniped by those dophamine pumps^W drains and especially vulnerable while being down. Maybe it is the other way around and they help me do get out, get some quick wins, and get back on track - with the alternative being "laying down lethargic". I don't know, I didn't measure. But I'd be very surprised if the recovery time is actually smaller.

After a few "prestiges" the stream of winning started to dry up ("a game design error, the progression balance is out of tune" - lamented my inner game designer) and the real sacrifice started to become apparent. "I'm failing my family, right now, I should be doing something else instead of this" I thought. "Just one more loop" the character thought back, claiming one more sleepless night for themselves.

In general, I need some pacemaker to glue me to a screen and be productive. Music works. But shit like this apparently works too. But unlike music it has a way more frequent failure mode of gluing me to itself instead.

Then the next night comes. And I'm once again getting hijacked deep into the night. "I have to fight this, this is unhealthy" I think and a helpful associative memory immediately jumps the rest of the DSM-5 "substance abuse" criteria on me. Thanks, mem!

Finally, the urge to know what's up next, beyond those level requirements starts to lose an uphill battle with the Levels of Outcome Strategically Expected by Ratiocination (LOSER) mentality. It's my chance to claw my soul back! So I say "sorry dude", dump the simulation string to the Cloud Storage and close the damn tab.

@pfm @spritely Small undiscovered P2P networks exist. And yet here we are. So this can't be the solution.

@carnage4life I wouldn't want to be the wall the AI is "hitting".

@thefunnypages Nah, I like satellites more.
They're lively and prove that humans are actually capable of doing things beyond hunting others and themselves into extinction.
Twinkle-twinkle, MFs!

Taste thyme, compute

@nikitonsky barely scratched the surface

@tristanC can you drive it from Bespoke, using its own text input widgets? (it does have them, right?)

If a process crashes, but there's no one on pager duty, is there an accident?

@ericflo If you're lucky, you can guess from its outputs what was its training regime and maybe get your setup attuned to it.

And this is a case for true open source - not only the weights, but also the training setups, docs etc.

@ericflo 💯 this.
Otherwise you make the agent being constantly confused about what's going on and fighting its own training.

@crash_override @omgubuntu Oh no!

@omgubuntu Oh yes!

@tonyg it's okay to plagiarize. You can just say you matmulled it over.

@calmeilles

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule28

> Rule 28. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy.

> According to the Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, examples of acts harmful to the enemy include the use of medical units to shelter able-bodied combatants, to store arms or munitions, as a military observation post or as a shield for military action.

@msinilo related skill - noticing you're confused and not letting it slide.

But maybe that's what you've described. Then the related one would be noticing being surprised and rechecking your assumptions.

@nikitonsky Rounded rectangles are the nature's purest form.

@abcdw I'm still waiting for the Codeberg to move to Guile.