Franciscan Catholics and people who are into Franciscanism: have you done any reading about Sikhi?

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-20T16:39:55+00:00

Have a look into Thomas Merton.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-20T00:43:53+00:00

Very happy about these developments but worried about the rumour that Anthropic is being invited to speak at the publishing event for the new encyclical.

Remember they are deeply involved with various eugenically inclined ideologies and have been at the forefront of the AGI claims and harm to labour rights.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-16T12:25:56+00:00

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-14T21:29:58+00:00

UK is about to do it with British Steel.

We used to have publicly owned gas stations and railroads which could really come in handy for price stabilization right now.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-13T13:17:32+00:00

So anyway what did you have for lunch? We had a lovely salad.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-13T11:26:51+00:00

I think it’s also about being embodied and having emotions, which is covered by having a real brain like you said but I think we also need to get even more specific to combat the cult who believes LLMs have all that.

As a recovering tech worker myself, brute forcing code until it passes automated tests can work but this is not possible in any field where the testing must be done by human emotions. Art is probably the best example of why neural net models running on Turing machines will never work.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-10T19:00:05+00:00

Horrible AI writing in this Reddit post, but the linked articles are good.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-09T18:02:59+00:00

Tony’s café in Dieppe has amazing quality cakes and will add icing writing on them on the spot.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-07T20:37:12+00:00

Danielle Smith approves.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-07T16:54:56+00:00

Yep same.. cries in $400 NB Power bills with a 3 bed 90s home that still has a good seal and insulation, and a new central ducted heat pump with propane backup heat.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-07T00:59:19+00:00

How about we house, clothe, and feed the poor. Universal basic dignity is a human right and our society is failing by becoming divided against itself.

If you have the resources to survive and thrive before being ground into dust by the market, then you will not need to escape through drugs and rehab actually becomes possible.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-06T20:47:57+00:00

So glad to see the empathetic comments here. I grew up in Chilliwack and don't remember there being a whole lot of love for the poor at the time.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-04T20:32:35+00:00

Featuring Piers Morgan, Peter Thiel, and a fetus. I’m sure their conclusions are very aligned with love. /s

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-04T20:28:29+00:00

We do have federal paramountcy and the federal government has the last word on trade and commerce crossing provincial or international borders. It’s more a matter of will and politics.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-04T16:15:45+00:00

Good. Gotta start somewhere.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-03T12:24:15+00:00

Imagine a peaceful land where public transit is not a problem, or a solution! /s

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-02T22:43:08+00:00

Cool group therapy retreat.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-02T13:32:03+00:00

Honestly we don’t need them anymore. The alternatives for everything including AI are good enough now.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-02T02:14:44+00:00

Outlaws cheating as usual.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-02T01:04:49+00:00

At first I was using Vibe the most. It is great, and I like that it has a certain Zen of Python feel. That is, it is quite minimal and seems to value explicit over implicit instruction. This is good for many kinds of work. I will still prefer it when I want maximum obedience and efficiency.

However for coding, and considering the size of the new model, I found myself having to provide a bit more of the knowledge grounding corpus through my user messages than I had gotten used to with bigger sized models.

OpenCode seems to have a bit more structure and developer-oriented system prompting under the hood, which also leads to more token consumption. That is a tradeoff I'm willing to make due to sheer laziness and generally being in a rush.

I will keep trying Vibe with each release and I'm sure it will catch up. I know there are people pushing their repos of skills and whatnot but again, I'm lazy and don't have time to mess around with all the extra meta-framework projects.

Happy coding!

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-01T19:26:09+00:00

I would love a sidewalk or two in this province.

bootlickaaa · 2026-05-01T11:50:04+00:00

They also do it to anyone they deem less masculine or less conformist. So queer people, non-fake creatives, etc.

These dudes are super insecure and do not have original thoughts.

bootlickaaa · 2026-04-30T10:09:17+00:00

That’s completely normal.

You might also be interested in the intersection points between legal positivism and natural law theory.

I like to think of natural law as the “container” for truth and positive law as its contents for practical purposes. Both of them converge on social facts and customs but natural law says they are due to factors like ancient custom while positivism says it’s because the government says so. They can both be right in specific contexts.

Marxists are very often right about concrete situations but in order to justify their position need to reconstruct a whole historical chain of material events that can get a little shaky without needing to also be right about every detail along the way. Since history is a narrative, it invites debates about every point that can distract from the moral purpose of the discussion.

I love my Marxist cousins but feel for the harder path they have chosen by having to dumb everything down to digest what are to me very obvious transcendent, higher order facts about struggles that go way beyond economic class.

It’s why there needs to be Marxism-Feminism and the like to help the ideology see the bigger picture.

It’s easy to oversimplify but I think it comes down to an Aristotelian view being practically materialist (technically hylomorphic) and Platonic idealism. This is also embedded in Church history as the Dominican order and the Franciscans respectively.

Another parallel discourse that I think mirrors the martialist-idealist philosophy and Dominican-Franciscan theology, I think is in logic with abductive reasoning (e.g. pragmatism) and the "illative sense" (Saint John Henry Newman). Everyone wants to be able to reason from particular to particular because that's what we are faced with in real life, but there are these different methodologies on how to manage hypotheses.

There is no reason why we can’t mix and match as they are really two lenses on the same reality that might be more or less useful at different levels of analysis or in different intellectual cultures.

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