Comrade Angles @Angle@witches.town

@karyl Thank you! If there's one thing I'm good at, it's finding interesting things to read. XD

Ugh. I've bean reading about Eurisko, and I want to work on A.I., but honestly I don;t think our society is ready to handle it responsibly. Which is, unfortunately, a much harder problem.

Also I have too many things to work on already, so. :X

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/stories/eurisko-computer-mind-its-own

@natecull Evola? Seriously? Thats one letter different from Ebola, and a very small letter, at that. :/

Aaaargh. And now I want to write a story following a relatively realistic take on what might happen if the premise of Static Shock actually took place. :/

Hmm. Get out of bed or make dumb jokes all day. Choices, choices. :/

@Elizafox *Obligatory*

NOT THE BEES!

@fidgety @Nentuaby Et tu, Brute?

@jasondclinton I think I've heard of that book. Haven't picked it up yet though. :/

@SilviaFox @vantablack by calling it cannabis. :P

@XenonFiber The big difference is how visible peertube servers are, and how that visibility will motivate companies to try and crack down. :/

Argh. Now I want to write a time travel story, but already have too many things to do. Life is suffering. :/

@xmakina@social.wxcafe.net If you're curious about Seeing like a State, you can get the short version here. I still haven't gotten my hands on the book, but I'm looking for it. XD

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/

@blp @DenubisX That's a utlity that implements this method, but the method is something else. Though it might be too simple to actually have a name. :/

@DenubisX Ah, alright, fair enough. I found it really interesting though, and if you have any questions I'd love to talk about it. XD

@DenubisX This isn't really about neurology though, it's about data processing! Like, whats that compression algorithm, where you match some data against some other data, and only send across the data representing the difference? It's basically that, writ large. XD

@DenubisX Really? I thought it made a lot of sense! I intend to buy that book. XD

@woozle Aye. I've essentially done away with the ideas of "personal failure" and "Character flaw", and even the idea of a single unified self to which they refer. They're useful under some circumstances, but there are many ways in which they're not accurate, and sometimes they can be counterproductive. :/

On another note, have any of you heard of the idea that the single, fundamental drive of the human brain - the drive to which everything else is tacked on - is to minimize predictive error and uncertainty? Everything else is essentially kludged in. Our drive for food, or most of our drives to actually do things, work by hardcoding the prior "not hungry" at 100% confidence, and then anytime our body insists that no, actually, it IS hungry, we get predictive error, and have to go minimize it by eating something. Weird, right? But I think that might actually be accurate. :/

@FakeRobotGamer Haha yeah. And I'll admit, for akk my effort I still tilt in video games some times. Hell, a lot of the time. XD