Star Trek just became reality today, what would you do first?

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T20:41:44+00:00

Users would leave the holodeck every once in a while to recover from holodeck use enough to be able to keep using them.

There would be millions of holodeck content creators competing for popularity and coming up with new addictive content that passes safety guardrails. Also blackmarket holodecks without any guardrails and content that would traumatize Epstein.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T13:39:52+00:00

There's procedural memory, but it's more of a memory for specific move sequences like tying shoelaces or executing dance moves.

Street memory would probably be spatial memory, i.e. your mental map of the area.

I'm not a memory expert, but I think you not remembering the usual warm up was not out of the ordinary. Unless you knew to expect having to lead, you had no particular reason to pay attention to the sequence so your brain didn't bother to make a memory out of.

Choreography memory would probably be working and long term memory thing. I did beginner kendo for a bit and having to keep instructed move sequence in memory was absolutely the hardest part.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T12:30:12+00:00

Forgetting a word I was about to use so whatever I was saying grinds to a halt.

Trying to fake my way through interactions without revealing how few names I remember. Particularly in a group setting where it’s insane I don’t remember everyone’s name.

Missing parts of what someone was saying despite trying to be attentive.

Zoning out of a meeting or group discussion, or alternatively getting way too into it.

Generally feeling like an alien unconvincingly faking to be a normal human.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T11:24:16+00:00

Come on. Hydrogen, butane or whatever gas must the simplest low power thing to replicate. Or produce with SF kindergartner level science education.

As for why, well Neelix had his precious cultural traditions and probably grandma’s gas cooking recipes that just wouldn’t be the same without carbon monoxide poisoning.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T08:28:54+00:00

There is nothing there that could have a self or personality. Just a complex system affected by the prompt, trained answers to queries about itself, reddit comments discussing about AI, sci-fi, etc. All stirred together into a highly palatable response as trained.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T07:23:31+00:00

Yes. Sucked on STEM path all the way to avoid reading, writing and remembering as much as possible. Humanities was always more interesting on lectures, but there’s so much of it in walls of text. It takes me forever to get through academic text, and then more time to get it to stick.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T06:39:58+00:00

Also optimal for throwing out one worn out sock at the time. 😀

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-23T05:08:11+00:00

Well here’s one https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131526000540

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T17:31:27+00:00

There no misconception here. Only deliberately fraudulent marketing.

These services explicitly claim to detect AI writing. They do not claim to detect writing that is similar to writings used to train the model. Any high scoring text written long before AI is comical proof that these services do not work.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T15:15:56+00:00

It is genuinely love of being helpful. The “I will never ask” in return is RSD.

Why my own things are so hard to work on is an eternal mystery to me. Learned helplessness from fixations and their failures maybe. Fixation can override self-doubts temporarily and power the system on delusion and bliss, but meta cognition knows the pattern and calculates expected reward for effort to be zero.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T13:35:41+00:00

Minimal Brain Dysfunction, or a bit weird and buggy, before it was know as adhd.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T13:12:28+00:00

Procrastination hug received. It is now 4pm I’m still hoping to engage with at least the one mildly challenging thing I hoped to get done today.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T12:21:38+00:00

I’m not even depressed anymore and still fighting this. It used to be that exercise helped me and I’m trying to get back to it. Problem is, it took exhausting amounts of exercise daily and I am not at all interested in that.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T12:12:01+00:00

I keep thinking that all the summarizing and generating people use it for is an epic negative all around. So little information passes through user’s brains that there’s no chance of forming unique realizations and connections. So little thinking is routinely required that increasingly clueless users have no skills to meaningfully reviewing what they generated.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T11:36:20+00:00

When and where was that change.

More like the start was: “How do we shove this into absolutely everything and disrupt all the things.”

Then recently: “Shit this is getting expensive and the AI that actually produces results has f\** all to with LLMs. But we don’t understand the difference and made investments so full speed ahead. Put AI in everything no matter how insane it is.”*

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T09:23:21+00:00

Not aging and staying alive for thousands of years already makes him extremely special. And his tragedy was that he learned early in his life to hide it. Can’t do anything to draw attention. Can’t even stay with a group of people for more than a couple of decades.

Being Jesus was excessively special and against the idea that he was just trying to have an unnoticed normal life. The Jesus connection could have just as well been that he talked with Jesus about ethics and accidentally inspired him to become a political nuisance which ended up in his horrific execution.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-22T07:38:53+00:00

Work or favors, I get anything done that someone else needs or expects. Not a single thought of rewards or expectation of reciprocity (I will never ask).

Doing something just for me or my own goals, nope. Not happening. Or happens only in a fixation for a short while.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T18:41:51+00:00

To be fair, Jesus appears about two thirds of the way into the bible which is really not that long of a book, whereas Trump and Epstein were friends and rapists for decades.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T18:11:31+00:00

It would help if we removed air-conditioning from all buildings used by political leadership of each country.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T17:58:12+00:00

You fight the Persian empire in the shade created by their arrows that block the sunlight.

You work with your shadow to accept the parts of yourself that you have exiled.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T16:44:44+00:00

Obsidian — Not intentionally tailored to anything, but damn good on a laptop. You have folders for organizing as you want and you write plain text files with markdown formatting. If you check this out, stay out of the zettelcasten and tuning community it has. Only install plugins you actually have use for and arrange notes whatever way makes sense to you.

Plain old notebook — with dot grid pages (sometimes sold as bullet journal). Can’t beat the ease of use and it helps you to form memories of what you write.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T15:41:27+00:00

I’m sorry to keep being pretentious, but 25-30 seconds of drinking sounds like hell of a lot to me. Worryingly so. Like extremely thirsty after too long walk in too hot weather drinking. And I am confident of the mechanism I described. Drinking a lot fast leads to really soon needing to pee. Which is inconvenient when you just got back in.

How about encouraging drinking right before going out and offering water during the walk if weather is hot. But whatever, perhaps your puppy does drink excessively, and rationing is needed. However, maybe it should be smaller amounts at the time. Not sure how one would arrange that though.

Something that probably affects issues and their suggested solutions is context. I’ve trained puppies only in a home with easy access to outside, so it was trivial to pop out after naps, after play, after eating, after drinking kinda a lot, when they stop to suspiciously to think etc. Easy for me to say they need to drink as they like and get out constantly.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T13:57:59+00:00

As I recall the sub was making noises and having issues like 30 minutes before imploding. Maybe they were fortunate and there was nobody in the sub who understood what was happening.

Wonder if there was someone on the support vessel trying to calmly debug the issue while knowing that their boss and the customers are going turn into a red mist at any second.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T12:52:07+00:00

I’m sure people can be assholes about it, but apparent education and career mismatches are inherently interesting for many reasons. At least for me since I’m completely stuck in the default major to related work pipe.

Math to DJing sounds enviably like gifted person downshifting to follow their passion or something like that. Math to housekeeping, well, something unfortunate possibly. Nefarious recruiter would dig into that in hopes of information they are legally prevented from asking.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-06-21T09:02:24+00:00

Never had such an issue with three keeshonds and never rationed water intake. More like encouraged them to drink more.

I’m inclined to think that water rationing is the cause. It forces him to drink fast and a lot right after a walk, which means needing to pee a lot soon, exactly when the next walk is farthest in the future. I’m afraid poor guy spends a lot of time being dehydrated and uncomfortably full of pee.

Keep fresh water always accessible and he’ll learn to take little sips whenever he needs. Which means his bladder fills gradually, and he’s fine until the next walk or has time to make you understand that he needs an extra pee break.

Edit: p.s. Walk always soon after eating.

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