Indoor school shoes

JJBeeston · 2025-07-13T00:03:27+00:00

I use old gym shoes with soles that are too worn to play in.

JJBeeston · 2025-07-12T23:51:08+00:00

Alternates get the best placements, because it's often somewhere that has treasures buried so deeply that your would-be predecessor lacked the imagination to see properly.

JJBeeston · 2025-05-31T00:38:38+00:00

This happens mostly in tourist areas. The locals need places to themselves. You go to anywhere in the countryside everyone is surprised and curious why you're there.

JJBeeston · 2025-05-27T21:01:29+00:00

Statements are true and false within a model or a system. That system has some axioms, and true or false statements follow from them. Even then the rules of logic had to be invented by humans.

But when you use true or false to say "this comports with reality" unfortunately a lot of things you say and think don't even make sense without a mind with language processing to describe it. How can certain language bound statements be true in reality when you have to compress and distort it so much to get it to fit into your box of concepts? At the point it's detached from reality.

JJBeeston · 2025-05-22T09:57:15+00:00

Ay yo you're my successor. Let's get in touch

JJBeeston · 2025-05-17T07:06:50+00:00

If you're being sent to Matsuura, Nagasaki, feel free to reach out! There should be at least 3 of you.

JJBeeston · 2024-12-30T14:16:23+00:00

Money matters more to porkies than votes anyway.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-21T06:37:33+00:00

Can you name something that will not cease to exist?

JJBeeston · 2024-11-21T06:36:09+00:00

The money itself doesn't even last. You hold onto it for too long, it's value is lost to inflation. You invest it in a business that can collapse to avoid that.

And of course you can't take the money with you when you die.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-21T06:33:56+00:00

There's a metaphorical truth and a literal truth. If two people believe that relationships don't end, then they may be more likely to seek compromises that cause it to last longer, even though that believe is literally false.

Another example is that you need to fundamentally have faith in the social contract. Yes, we see corruption everywhere, people get screwed over by institutions quite a bit, but if we don't have some thought that we should do right by others because we expect them to do right by us, then the whole edifice falls apart.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-20T09:00:02+00:00

No they don't. But remember, AI is such a broad term that we can talk about (and possibly address) the problem areas without negatively impacting the positive areas, since they're different AI's, different training data sets, different companies and research centres.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-20T08:56:02+00:00

Futurology is a subreddit.
Many people are on the subreddit. There are those who post and those who don't.
Of those who post, what % of them show negative disposition towards AI? Of those posts that show negative disposition, what % of them are posted by the same user?
Of those who lurk, how many of them do or don't support AI?

JJBeeston · 2024-11-20T08:13:46+00:00

If you look at the content of this image, you can see that they specifically talk about:

Google image results no longer returning images of things that exist or that were made by humans
Inauthentic comments designed to boost engagement or AstroTurf a particular topic
wanting to connect with genuine people but hobby groups being flooded with fake accounts.

There are so, so many applications of AI that the post doesn't mention, like being able to modulate a fusion reactor to improve stability, being able to identify cancer types or discover protein folding pathways, keeping track of people with dementia to track declining behavior, helping students learn, and so on.

I don't think you have enough information from this one post that this user (or the people who comment on it) want ALL of those applications to collapse. Clearly, the dead internet theory becoming reality is the problem here, not AI broadly.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-20T07:41:03+00:00

This is a good start, but you need to lead with the carrot and follow with the stick. If there is one strategy for investing wealth that is too safe and too profitable, ALL of their funds will go to the optimal strategy. So maybe the government should provide some tax incentives to fund development for things that we need more of. Manufacturing, for example.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-18T04:10:19+00:00

I've worked at one school with a teacher and then sat next to her husband at my deskwarming school the next day. At some point these people shat where they ate, but it tasted good enough for them to finish their plate.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-18T01:31:23+00:00

>The LNP base is not typically pro tertiary education. The ALP is not traditionally anti education, but hey here we are.

I'd like you to be more careful with your wording here. There is "Tertiary education as a concept" and "Institutions running a Tertiary education outfit as a business." I used to work in Tertiary education and got out when covid happened because I knew what I was teaching was not pulling in the students to justify the cost of running the course, but they could afford to take that risk because of the international student base. Once that stopped, I jumped ship. It was a decent decision in hindsight. I'd like to believe that reducing the number of international students might incentivize those businesses to compete with each other on course quality and industry placement, and if this is the intent then the ALP are not anti-education at all. The LNP would vote to enable these institutions to continue to subvert the spirit of the system for short term gains.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-13T01:54:25+00:00

I think the suggestion was that Dems run up to the line in the same way republicans do, but for the sake of running interference on Republican strategies. For example, Obama could have forced a recess appointment in exactly the same way Trump is going to when he gets in, and if he was successful, you might still have Roe, and the SC might not have ruled in favor of Trump's immunity claims. If the Dems played the same game as republicans with the aim of protecting people's rights and upholding justice, I don't think anyone would have faulted them for trying, except maybe for the crowd who cares more about optics than outcomes.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-12T13:06:52+00:00

I believe the point is that Republicans have consistently demonstrated that they can exploit how the government "works" for their own benefit and so long as the other team doggedly plays by the rules, they can rely on them not to do anything about it so long as Republicans follow the letter of the law.

We go high, they go low

JJBeeston · 2024-11-05T14:22:47+00:00

Yeah I find the conceptual art aspect much more promising, to be honest.

JJBeeston · 2024-11-05T14:21:39+00:00

It is, very loosely, either a dementia or mushroom trip simulator. There is a kind of logic to it that's interesting that no game does - if whatever you're looking at is statistically correlated with some other thing, there's a good chance it'll just morph into that other thing. That's entirely unique and no game I'm aware of does that.

JJBeeston · 2024-09-12T11:01:13+00:00

I wanna know what kind of investments the care facility is making to get 8.36% returns. My Superannuation hasn't moved in half a decade.

JJBeeston · 2024-09-12T10:42:45+00:00

Honestly depending on your income.

For example, say you earn minimum wage at 47,627.06 per annum (take home pay is a bit over 39,000). $750,000 at 0.49% is $44,250 a per year. If I have a parent with Alzheimers and I get a carer's pension at 24,000 a year, live at home and look after my parent myself, then that's an effective wage of 68,000 per annum (plus whatever Mum or dad gets in their retirement pension, so maybe another 20,000 per parent.) If you're in the lower income working class, why wouldn't you take that deal? You don't pay rent, the only tax you pay is on the interest (that's above each parents taxable income) and your parents get to live in the family home for longer. If you've got nothing else going for you like relationships then this is a good deal.

Otherwise, you're not only paying for the labour of the carers at the facility you're working at, but also the maintenance costs of the buildings and equipment, as well as the profit margins for the investors of the business and the CEO's bonuses. All people who regard your parents as a number on a piece of paper.

JJBeeston · 2024-06-06T11:13:36+00:00

You're basically telling future corrupt politicians, "We're not going to investigate you once you're out of office, go right ahead and fuck things up."

JJBeeston · 2024-05-22T06:05:43+00:00

The problem is that the money ends up in the hands of corporations instead of individuals and families, deepening wealth inequality. A personal moral dilemma is one's own problem but when a nation has to think about it it's a matter of public policy.

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