Nikola Zalokin

computer pseudoscience

Dice made of terracotta from Indus Valley Civilization. Harappa, Pakistan. 2600-1900 BC.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. Muhammad Ali, one of my very few heroes, once took the time to explain to me that “there are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”
— Hunter S. Thompson

Me pregunto hasta qué punto estas alarmas tienen una base sólida de comparación con generaciones anteriores. Por otro lado, me pregunto qué clase de mentorazgo van a tener los futuros programadores: todo es remoto y la IA no inspira ni sirve de modelo, a diferencia de un jefe o un compañero experto.

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If I remember correctly, he doesn't dismiss the possibility that computers might even "think" one day, based on the fact that the sign works like a logical gate.
The question is whether that constitutes a "subject".

I recall Lacan's text on cybernetics being one the most interesting because it showed he was really a very very avid person when it came to knowledge, and showed a deep philosophical understanding of what computing is and also is surprisingly pertinent today.

Un empresario mileísta les deseó pobreza eterna y desnutrición irreversible a los bonaerenses.
"¿Te parece ponerte así por el resultado de unas elecciones?", le preguntaron.
"¿Qué elecciones?", respondió.

Glad to find this here and see that Musk hasn't monopolized stupidity.

La verdadera biografía del autor es su obra. Ahí está su impulso vital y toda su coyuntura.
Lo demás es chimento.

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Bluesky:

I have the blood of too many default cubes on my hands #blender3d #b3d

The synthesis of geometric shapes, the substantial and pure, almost primitive approach of the composition of lines and curves tell of an expressiveness of great immediacy without losing any introspective detail....work of the artist Henry Gaudier Brzeska

What is the deal with furries?
I am asking honestly. It's just that I don't get why people (younger ppl mostly) identify or project into furries.
Maybe if someone had a furry poem or something.
I might never understand it or identify with it, but maybe I can come at ease with why not.

I've been thinking of this for some time.
Yes, a veo3 video might cause a lot of CO2 emissions, but how much would cost to travel to location and film a 1 minute scene, for example?
According to the article, it seems there might be a huge overestimation of the environmental impact of AI, right?

True. I'd even ask: psychoanalytically, where does that drive for empirical proof come from? It sounds like a declaration of metaphysical poverty.

Esta cuenta me encanta.
Me hace acordar a las cuentas de periodistas en tuiter circa 2015. E.g: cómo cubrieron lo de Nisman mejor que en la tele.
No sé por qué. Quizás es su estilo de contenido informativo sin bait.

Laburas en sistemas con brasileros o hablabas en portuñol por otro motivo?

These look great! How do you do the tiling? I'd like to learn to create stuff like this procedurally.

Luckily for us, noone owns our body and minds anymore.

This is weirdly specific and true.

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reader i sputtered

yo estuve tratando de instalar "grokhead", "chatgepetón" y "chatgepetero" pero todavía nada

No sé si debería ser "el barrio sano". Eso suena a lo más embolante del mundo. Es el barrio de "no voy a regalar mi tiempo a la app que es un nido de nazis, cuentas fake de tendencias y bots".
Agradezco el drama de despedida igual. Fue lo más divertido que vi hoy acá.

Haven't read Mariategui, though. Will give it a shot someday.

Wilhelm Reich does something similar in "Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus", where he tries to marry Freud to the materialist view of Marxism.
IMO, that always ends up oversimplifying Freud.
They are too incompatible to mix. Freud sees history as mythical repetition, not a dialectical progress.