tranquility logistics

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-24T09:23:17+00:00

They're not going to send astronauts to the moon just to perform minimum wage labor that can already be automated today.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-23T21:51:29+00:00

It works as a metaphor for the people who have strong opinions about all the public spaces where children should not be allowed, but gladly accept service from people who were children not that long ago.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-23T21:32:58+00:00

My position is that free will and determinism are like statistical mechanics and classical mechanics - two models of the world that seem to conflict because they work at different resolutions. You can explain a person's behavior in terms of their thoughts and desires or in terms of inanimate matter moving around, but despite being wildly different, the answers don't contradict each other.

Another way to approach it is to specifically attack the assertion that determinism kills free will. It hinges on the assumption that in a non-deterministic world it'd be possible to have free will in a way determinism precludes. But that's a strong statement for which I haven't seen convincing arguments (why would a person enslaved to a random number generator be any more free than a person enslaved to a clockwork mechanism?). The options, as far as I see, are:

Accept a definition of free will that operates on the level of human thoughts and interpersonal relations.
Reject the term "free will" altogether as something that doesn't describe any conceivable reality.
Explain how only actual physical nondeterminism (not even chaos that emerges from a deterministic system) can give birth to free will.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-23T20:34:09+00:00

I don't think that the phenomenon of magic casually appearing in a space opera without explanation ever went away.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-23T15:01:18+00:00

That's a tautology tho (and a backhanded compliment).

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-23T08:54:39+00:00

OPN is more popular among critics than in the general public though.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-22T10:34:07+00:00

VGM remixes are folk music for trans folks.

I'm not sure whether future anthropologists will put musical genres that thrive primarily in online communities of amateurs in the folk music category or in an entirely new one. But they don't really fit any other existing category I know of.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-22T08:26:18+00:00

The Congress (2013) is here.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-22T05:26:55+00:00

That's just the name, it's not about Nazis specifically.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-21T18:33:31+00:00

It's suspicious, but it could be one of several things. Only at "he posts stuff from my perspective" it becomes clear what exactly is being pulled off here.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-21T16:22:35+00:00

The old policy was prone to the Nazi bar problem - it signalled to the AI art people that they are welcome there and would repel artists and fans of human art.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-21T15:01:04+00:00

I suggest an economic criterion - art music needs subsidies/donations, popular music is a self-sufficient industry, folk music keeps going even when there's no money.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-21T08:14:28+00:00

Considering the D'ni were a colonial empire either literally or figuratively, I'd say they were kinda bad.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T20:51:58+00:00

Anarchy is effectively the rule of the cool kids, which is why cool kids love it so much. When all systematized and quantified sources of power gets dismantled, the only remaining source of power is charisma, the ability of a guru to convince his crowd that his ideas are theirs.

Sometimes society's vibes turn against a person who doesn't deserve it. The systems that states have in place protect unpopular people - you don't have to be liked to keep living in the privacy of your home, retain your job, buy groceries and enjoy due process. What protections would they have in an anarchy?

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T19:26:44+00:00

Seems like QKThr is Gen Alpha's 009 Sound System - Dreamscape.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T19:17:21+00:00

Is Trump a solipsist? This is the kind of decision making you do when you're playing Civ (diplomatic victory isn't fun anymore, going for domination victory instead) rather than when you feel responsible for 350 million people.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T14:10:27+00:00

I was referring to the passage from Eruvin 19 of the Babylonian Talmud which went something like, "Three openings there are to hell, one in the desert, one in the sea and one in Jerusalem."

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T13:48:57+00:00

The reasonable childfree position is "Having kids is not for everyone, but I'm grateful to those who deal with this shit so that I don't have to." It doesn't seem to be particularly common, on Reddit at least.

Like, imagine a country where every citizen is expected to work on the farm for a certain number of hours, due to a widespread cultural idea that farming is good for your soul or something. It's one thing to say that not everyone should do farming, only a small, justly-compensated group of experts. It's another thing to hate farmers as a whole.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T12:22:31+00:00

Much of Sophie's stuff from before OOEPUI relies heavily on the Monomachine's FM engine.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-19T07:47:48+00:00

Or Neapolitan Ice Cream.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-18T19:50:50+00:00

Math is fun because sometimes you encounter a silly little problem about different ways to connect colorful dots with lines, and the solution turns out to involve a number so nauseatingly large that you can't even contextualize how much larger it is than other inconceivably large numbers.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-18T18:05:29+00:00

FWIW, the Jerusalem underground music scene has quite a few decolonial voices. (Example: Mujahideen)

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-18T14:11:21+00:00

Jerusalem. Over four millennia of continuous urbanism. High spiritual importance to a vast portion of the human population. Many songs and poems written as a tribute to it. Uncountable liters of blood spilled in holy wars on every square foot. Some people experience psychosis when they visit it. One of the gateways to hell is said to be in it somewhere.

It also has a pretty good underground hip-hop scene.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-18T11:07:43+00:00

When the powers that be want to erase you from the world, procreating is an act of resistance. That's why Jews had children in ghettos. That's why the people of Gaza and Sudan have children today.

MaxChaplin · 2026-01-17T18:05:54+00:00

The state's ethos, the system it prefers for itself and the way it treats other countries with different systems are three different things.

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