PJ @pj@qoto.org

Just listening on
https://radioparadise.com/home
Beautifully weird

https://youtu.be/xNaDghdfo9g

I see there is a "Show replies" in the settings but it doesn't seem to work.
I see only toots that are boosted. Anyone?

I'm less interested in toots people I follow have boosted than I'm interested in some of their replies to other threads that I can find only if I go and check their profiles one by one. Is there a switch for fine tuning what appears in the timeline?

Is #Technology #ValueNeutral?

I would say YES because anything can be used either for good or for evil. Here is an interesting article that argues the opposite. Not sure how successfully though:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0162243919900965

Is there a way to include replies to others from instances I follow in my Home or/and Local timelines?

"The Many Faces of #Resilience"
by Ted G. Lewis. Very interesting article about #Complexity, Self-Organizing Criticality (#SOC), and preventing #CascadingFailures

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267957-the-many-faces-of-resilience/fulltext

Mobs behave nothing like flocks of birds as this article would like you to believe. Even the author had to admit it at the end of the article.

#Murmuration is the result of birds blindly following a few simple #rules without any #leader, obvious #target, or "higher" #purpose, much like in #JConway's "#GameOfLife".

On the other side, there is nothing "spontaneous" in mobs. You can always identify the lead instigator, the target and it is pretty obvious what they want.

https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/

@skyblond
You can also "see the whole music" (score, record) like you can see films, or you can listen to individual tones or sequences like you would watch a film frame.

What I think you are talking about is the difference between the *rate-independent* #production of their #structure(s) and the rate-dependcy of their #reproduction #process.

Producing a film, music piece or SW prgram can go on for months, be interupted and resumed at will, but its reproduction, to make any sense, must be uninterrupted and at a specific rate.

The world works on #difference and #change, both structural and/or temporal.

"Users flocking to the platform will need to shift their expectations for social media and become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their networks."
https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/

@sean @danlfamily

You have, for example, reporters like this, writing in journals that should know better, about "disruptive" innovation and the "Tesla syndrome" while glorifying Edison's "business acuity" and "hard work":

"Both were keen to promote themselves as singular men of invention, uniquely gifted and fitted for innovation. But where Tesla and his promoters showed him off as a man apart, living inside his own head and obsessed with invention, Edison’s story was of the self-made man, pursuing — and achieving — his inventions through sheer grit and determination (1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, as he famously suggested). Here was the business inventor, grounded in the world of commerce rather than forever dreaming about the stars."🙄
https://www.noemamag.com/the-resurgence-of-tesla-syndrome/

Most people will be scared by unconventional individuals that are venturing into the #exploration of the unknown. They are much more comfortable with people concerned with the #exploitation of known, already established ideas, not understanding that both "disruptive" exploration and exploitation "grit" are necessary for a sane society.

In other words, the #Subject is just another #Object able to #Observe and think about other objects.

In medieval Scholasticism, the term '#subject' was used for that which stood apart, like in the way it is still present today when we say that a patient is a 'subject' of (subjected to) surgery. An '#object' was not a thing but rather correlated to a knowing being as the "intentional object" existing only in their mind's #awareness.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/374/subject-and-object-a-micro-history

#Constructivism along with 2nd order Cybernetics are trying to "right the wrong" introduced by Kant and return to the original meaning by making the #subject (observer) the #object of inquiry.

"This month alone, one such approach revealed an unexpected link between memory formation and metabolic regulation."

No way ... you are kidding me, get outta here ...

You have to be alive in order to think?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/

#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") - was the first to state that everything starts with "#atoms", in a "#BottomUp #Causation.

#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') - starts with the bottom-up association and decision of free individuals.

I see lots of posts and articles from people listing all the bad things they were able to "convince" #OpenAI's #ChatGPT to do for them as "proof" of how #AI and #ML models can be harmfully biased, so I thought will ask why is that.

The answer is, as expected, "garbage in - garbage out".

It is not the tool's fault the people using it are deliberately biased and misleading and most of them provide as "proof" only the screenshots of the answer, without bothering to also supply the questions they asked that led to such an answer.

These are my questions and the answers from #ChatGPT:

One of the better explanations of the difference between #constructivism and #constructionism :

Just finished my first conversation with #OpenAI's #ChatGPT and I must say I'm impressed.
Here is an example (the best of 3 attempts):

"We ultimately traded away the “#OhYeahButton” for the “#LikeButton”. And that was a huge mistake."

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/oh-yeah-button-tim-berners-lee.html

@empiricism

Yo must be familiar with Howard Pattee's work. In his opinion, a computer can be described on about 16 different levels.😀

Here is a nice short summary of his works:

https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/pattee/