On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:51 PM Karl Semich <[email protected]> wrote:
> jim bell is a hero for posting about post-quantum fido and a pi formula. > ultraram is cool too and professor rat always mixes in something rare and > needed. and grarpamp got chip vulnerabilities long before jim and i did. > > -- > every now and then, ever since the zombification idea, i pass a graveyard > again. i spent some time in a wooded graveyard that was quite beautiful, > lots of serene corner areas ... > > my interest in graveyards originally started when i was supposed to be > killed, something seemed to save me and make it more a joke, when i was in > a heavy trance i would sometimes want to dig a hole and lay in it . long > ago. much more torturous then. now medicine gets to keep everyone alive > forever i hear? or do we come back to life and do it ourselves? > > anyway, after i joked about putting servos in dead people's joints on list > earlier things shifted and there was more of a robotics focus. the idea was > to make robots that danced on the graves of dead people (since we could > bring them back to life but aren't) and it would i guess be a suitable > zombie apocalypse to see, quite clear, then i realized how depressing it > would be, pretty important to realize such things. sad the cool idea was > evil. need supported ideas that aren't evil! also need projects! it lets me > do more if it makes it evil, it's confusing, dissociative. > > anyway again, i think the thoughts would collapse together around the idea > of making systems that accurately speak for the dead like in the ender's > game series. the zombie idea ignored the brain, considering only > reanimating the body, but i've worked with information all my life, not > biology and medicine. > > it seems similar to making a system that proves everything that is true, > something clearly we're all trying to pop into existence in some way or > another ... > > ... some thoughts misplaced ... maybe back to the dancing robots ... i > made a dancing robot once ... > > anyway a lot of people seem to feel humanity is really about stories, that > this separates us from other creatures, the depth and quickness with which > we relate what happened elsewhere, at another time, or what might happen > [and how we feel about it, which are more deep stories]. bees dance > stories, and humans have billion dollar box office movies ... > > [i was also thinking how the lack of information stores information so > thoroughly as well. this is present in evolution: if a predator eats all > the purple mongooses and they evolve to have the same color as their > environment, the predator's behavior, and the lives of all those purple > mongooses, are shown in the coats of the mongooses that survive .... you > could consider what influences produced various fossils specifically the > way they are, and derive further theoretical fossils, and plot their > possibility, like mapping a brain from partial information ... > > [a theory of spirit is that there is always new kinds of information, > meaning there will always be some way in the future to discern what of > importance really happened, that we could never think of today > > >
