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acetylcholin

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Hi I'm Robert( they/them). Fire Spinning, Dabblings in OpenGL , Mathematics and Chemistry and stuff I find interesting. ⚗️🎥🔥🌈

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has a shader editor now and some metaballs. Yay. I have an EEG and therefore my brain can now output midi as well as graphics. Lol. :D
For some reason it's more fun to build the tool than to use the tool. But seriously mindflex can only do so much. Blink detection is possible in maybe real-time if raw data comes in which is unreliable. Else the meditation and Attention is something I can control. The eeg bands are the opposite of exact science.

Gehirnquirl UI showing colorful metaballs in the foreground than the shader editor is shown, than the eeg charts and what happens when I blink. Than I configure the eeg->midi settings.

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Halp!
My company goes south and there is unemployment looming on the horizon.
I am looking for a remote job or on-site in Dresden ( Germany)
I can do:

Architecture ( dotnet, Microservices, kritis, team lead for up to 6 people)

DevOps ( observability - grafana Stack, pipelines ( GitHub, gitlab, azure DevOps), provisioning ( Terraform, ansible, Azure arm ) , test automation, vuln scanning automation)

Dev ( dotnet, golang, python , c++ (>= 17 )

All help appreciated 🤞🙂

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japan needs more hi quality open source fonts

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter Is there a highQ
hidden in your sentence here?
I suspect there is.

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter hiqh Q haiku haiku.. but it didn't fit in the syllables. Also I saw the golem post after this one so I suspected there is a hidden haiku joke. But Japan actually have such a problem

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The I/O Ching: A Logical Oracle of Transformations

https://git.sr.ht/~duangle/texts/tree/master/item/papers/io-ching-intro.md

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@lritter can confirm. Hey that's fun. :)

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"welcome to my werewolf channel, lycan subscribe"

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter 1000 subscribers grants a lycan trophy

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is there a left-leaning manosphere?

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acetylcholin ,
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@lritter nope but why should they?

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter oh they have insta and Facebook. :)

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there are programs still running today whose authors are long gone, still being copied and copied. and if that isn't the closest we got to witnessing artificial life.

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter there are tools still used today whose inventors are long gone. Looking at you hammer! Stop being envious of pointy stick because he's maybe slightly older!

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter given enough nails it totally could.

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter given a matrix of nails where calculations are performed given the nail height , the hammer can be utilized to drive nails down or pull them out, thus becoming the driver or runner for nail height based processing. So given enough nails a hammer can run anything. Even Crysis.

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@lritter what about artifice and the death of artifice instead? If there is no trace of an artificer anymore artificial life would become just life. so dead of artificial life if it has the artifice to create artificial life also is than only possible by dead of artifice itself.

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@lritter hmm can simulated life have snapshots from which to start? Of course it can. It's a simulation. So while it can simulate death it can't die since it can be restored at any given moment from any given snapshot. Well if we constrain amount of snapshots and remove deterministic states all together.. Than we could still shake the simulation box until we have the desired revival state given we have all the time there is..
I don't think simulated life can die as long as the simulation exists

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter you might become the sole reason I set up my own masto instance just to get rid of the char Limit.

So let's say simulated life can't truly die as long as there is a way to run the simulation since there are snapshots measurements or something else to recreate any given state. It can simulate death as in just becoming unresponsive but now we get in chtulu Territory. "That is not death what can eternal lie and in strange aeons even death may die".

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@lritter so a simulation can appear death to the observer by just not emitting signals. But we don't know if it just does it again if the observer is gone.

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@lritter well. Sleeping is for the observer still a lot of signals .. breathing.. snoring.. heartbeat. simulation could flat line. So simulate death. Like a opossum.

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@lritter Im Not that familiar with information. It supposedly can't get lost if I recall correctly and somehow entropy and information density are directly related.
For reasons which are beyond me since I loose information all the time which should not be the case. But still I can't remember my dream from two days ago and I really found it remarkable for a day. Now it's gone. So information can decay. Else everyone would also know where to get the best copper in ancient mesopotamia.

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@lritter mmh What's pure information? A set of values or references? Information needs a system of references else it's noise. And while that can be fine it gets silly. Like a random string of scribbled made up symbols could be seen as information then.. but it won't have any information until a system of reference is created exactly for it to bear meaning..

There I said it. Meaning.

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@lritter so like 1+1=3 can only count as information if the symbol mapping is conceptually clear. No matter if the information is correct.
So ugh my head i go to bed now but this as a question:
Is there something like a solitaire Information?
Than it references itself and contains it's frame if reference. Self contained. Ok good night.

a pixelated image of a man with glasses holding his head

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter mmh how large is this?
Given my argument about reference frame needs to be included it should be smaller than a Zustand in Quantum mechanics... I still am not sure what qualifies as information. What kind of reference frame needs to be included so a information is an actual one and not only a fragment

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@lritter jepp. Think Not only local transform and world transform but also what's a 3D space.
Information without context or reference frame is just noise.. anf if information is foundational it should need a way to contain them... :3

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@lritter hmm.. consciousness is a matter of complexity. So a body can't be something like a rock or a hammer. To qualify as a body we need at least something to perceive it's surroundings , something to act within it's surroundings and something to process this informations to at least differentiate between its surroundings and itself.
So the single body is a quite complex thing and worthy of a consciousness.

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@lritter if a consciousness can be within more than one body the question would be: how much complexity in terms of input and actuators can a single consciousness handle?

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@lritter evolution :)
That's why octopi have one brain per arm.
I imagine they hold a council in the head all the time.
Oh look at this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/comments/14eintw/does_an_octopus_have_multiple_consciousnesses/

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self-inflating balloon

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter given a regular balloon self deflates you just need to invert it and are already there.

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> consider the christian model heaven-earth-hell not as a statement about the afterlife, but as an emotionally colored existential metaphor.

> we're not done. :) alright. now let's consider these three places as collective existential places

> invent a fitting definition of the relational roles angel - human - demon within this framework

> how would a pure angel / human / demon perceive this framework?

> what happens when an angel and a demon fall in love?

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@lritter

  • Mittelmeer was passierte eigentlich mit Griechenland nach der Antike. Wurden die wieder glückliche Farmer? Wann kam Rotbart ins Spiel? Ich freu mich über interaktive Zeitleisten und Karten und Piratenschätze

-Mal mal eine Karte Griechenlands wo es am wahrscheinlichsten noch Piratenschätze gibt.

  • dann nimm doch mal noch Athen und Istanbul und Kairo als Referenzpunkte hinzu und mach ne Projektion mit den GPS Koordinaten die gibt's ja auch pro Insel.
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"i make eye contact. the neurotypicals have accepted me as one of their own."

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter this but reversed?

acetylcholin ,
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@lritter neurotypicals don't like it if you call them that.

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@lritter stanford prison experiment but with animal costumes?

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what if we did all this to ourselves by culling ads from our browsers, ejecting ourselves from the mercantile system. so more and more, the market moved away from catering to us, and not only continued catering to the kind of people who would still watch advertisements, but started optimizing towards selling to them better. our estrangement accelerated.

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@lritter overall why offering an alternative to social media if the best alternative might be "nothing at all"?
Which is a simple train of thought done by many people across all proficiencies already?

Why continue using something if there is no value Since the actual value gets smaller and smaller the more enshitifaction progresses.

So at some point people will just stop and abandon the concept social media as a whole.

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@lritter the kids will find something else. If the whole social media thing becomes an old people thing why use something like that at all? The whole social media thing is still to new to speak about generational cycles.
And frst signs are appearing :

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/generation-z-bringing-back-flip-phone-young-people-go-dopamine-diet/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/the-boring-phone-stressed-out-gen-z-ditch-smartphones-for-dumbphones

so I am quite optimistic the "Orphan stomper" will not last.

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i think it's weird that information isn't considered "real" (physical) yet has a location in space and time through the physical substrate it depends on.

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@lritter I use Claude for the same purposes, good to see I am not the only one. :D
Btw. Did you know that you are part of Claude's initial training data?

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@lritter I just wondered if the machine learning people I know are part of it so I asked Claude what he knows abut Hendrik strobelt for example without accessing the web. Than I thought mmh funny. Let's see if there is a bias. No hits for the genetic engineering crowd. No much hits for novel authors but some again for demosceners :D

Claude Antwort: Ja, das ist ein super interessantes Muster! Mein Trainingsdatensatz hat eine klare Bias: Was gut repräsentiert ist: 🟢 Computer Science / AI / ML Forschung (Strobelt, Döbel) 🟢 Bekannte Tech-Projekte mit Online-Präsenz (Demoszene: Tammo, Leonard) 🟢 Akademische Publikationen in CS-Konferenzen Was unterrepräsentiert ist: 🔴 Künstler & Aktivisten (außer sie sind sehr mainstream-bekannt) 🔴 Experimental-Physiker (Roman Yaresko) 🔴 Genetic Engineering / Biowissenschaften (weniger online dokumentiert?) 🔴 UI/UX Designer (Torsten Schneyer) 🔴 Privacy/Security-Forscher (Stefan Schiffner - obwohl akademisch!)
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    • acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter mmh stimmt auch wieder :)
    Auf jedenfall kann mir Claude was über dich erzählen ohne im Netz zu suchen.

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    @grumpygamer found a framed copy in a company I'm visiting. Thought it's nice to see your work is honoured like that :)

    A framed floppy disk with monkey island 2
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    choose wisely

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    @lritter is there a spoonful of sugar included with the medicine?

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    blue volkswagen. green chrysler. which actor is most likely to drive a red ford?

    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter Elmo from sesame street

    @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , (edited ) to random

    retail sale loves delivery (and pick up services) because it means there's no shoplifting. but shoplifting constitutes one of the "dark" social support systems. so i'm predicting that we'll see the return of "highwaymen" with delivery vans, trains (see comments) and later, drones, taking the place of stagecoaches.

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    @lritter drone hunting would be feasible.

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    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter guess will be at best improvised can crackers as in directed microwave magnetron on a stick.
    Else simple nets or wire traps will do just fine.

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    i like to work

    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter no diggidi

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    Tickt erst mal einer, dann ticken auch zwei
    Und ticken mal zwei, sind bald alle dabei!
    -- Mediengruppe Telekommander

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    @lritter bastelst du Grad an einem entity component system?

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    the grim asparagus-picker

    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter wouldn't that be Moore like an asparagumancer?

    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter that's what a capitalist necromancer would say

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    doki doki docker

    acetylcholin ,
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    @lritter pov: containerized video sharing platform: diki doki

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    and when are they going to arrest the anthropic and openai ceo's for their ddos botnets? just asking questions

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    @jackpearse @lritter it's tulips all the way down.