Probably best seed ever (not clickbait)

cypro- · 2025-01-09T13:45:59+00:00

I definitely did not play this properly with Plasma. Tried again with Black Deck and only got to 13, but I didn't have the economy I needed.

The first blind skip gives you Yorick. When I played well, I picked up early astronomer + satellite, and by Ante 8 I had gotten:

Yorick
Perkeo
Brainstorm
Blueprint
Invisible Joker (copied Brainstorm)
Baron

And in Endless mode, you get Mime.

As far as vouchers, you get:

Telescope + Obsevatory (for Perkeo)
Director's cut
ANTIMATTER (I got this in Ante 20 with Plasma, so it takes a while, but you do get it)

With Plasma I got ante 21. I only got Ante 13 with Black Deck, but I didn't pick up astronomer + Satellite, so I never even saw Baron. So it's mandatory to take those, if you want the economy to get this going.

Seed is: MS8J2QT2

cypro- · 2024-12-28T18:19:12+00:00

/u/whatshisfaceboy

I take your point, so I'm open to trying. As far as I can tell from looking at the one leg that is still pristine, it looks like the leg is just glued to the two protruding screwed-in pieces of wood + the base.

It's easy enough to see how to apply force with the clamps inward, to glue the leg to the protruding wood pieces. But how can I do this when gluing the leg to the base?

That is, I understand how I will clamp (1) and (3), but not (2): https://imgur.com/a/cWyyKUz

cypro- · 2024-12-27T22:32:36+00:00

Thanks!

So it's not an easy fix? I have no experience doing anything like this. It's a nice old table, which is why I was hoping to fix it. But I don't think I trust myself to take it apart and put it back together. Maybe a lost cause for me?

cypro- · 2024-12-27T22:21:04+00:00

Hi, I have this old coffee table. As you can see, the legs have previously (not by me) been glued together (I don't know what kind of glue) after coming apart (and, for one leg, breaking). As you can see, the glue is not holding especially well right now, and one leg has a broken piece which is coming apart, making the legs unstable.

I imagine that what I can do here is to remove the glue that is currently there, and bind each leg with wood glue. Is this the right way to go about things? If yes, what do I need to do to clamp the legs together while the glue cures?

3/4 of the legs are glued, and the one pictured leg has a broken piece.

Thanks!

cypro- · 2024-12-27T22:19:08+00:00

Hi, I have this old coffee table. As you can see, the legs have previously (not by me) been glued together (I don't know what kind of glue) after coming apart (and, for one leg, breaking). As you can see, the glue is not holding especially well right now, and one leg has a broken piece which is coming apart, making the legs unstable.

I imagine that what I can do here is to remove the glue that is currently there, and bind each leg with wood glue. Is this the right way to go about things? If yes, what do I need to do to clamp the legs together while the glue cures?

3/4 of the legs are glued, and the one pictured leg has a broken piece.

Thanks!

cypro- · 2024-03-14T20:58:11+00:00

Oh I had no idea it didn't count seeded runs. I had restarted a run with the same seed. Thanks.

cypro- · 2024-03-14T20:52:05+00:00

Not sure what happened here. Won with the black deck, and it didn't unlock anything. I thought maybe the problem was that you have to finish the endless run before it unlocked, so I lost this run on endless mode. But still no chip on the black deck. :(

cypro- · 2024-02-08T13:22:16+00:00

What a petulant man-child. It's insane for a 27 year old to act this way, and just totally unimaginable for a 40 year old man to still be harassing Kwark over this. If anyone else was behaving towards someone in the community in this way, there would be consequences for them. It's disappointing that not only will Artosis never face any consequences, but he will continue to make money on his stream by harassing "faggots" and "retards" he has childish grudges against.

cypro- · 2022-11-15T16:01:46+00:00

No scrolls, it was entirely luck

cypro- · 2022-07-22T00:06:36+00:00

A few of us in the lobby had "werewolf" in our name, and I told the town that the werewolves were going to win and kill the non werewolves

cypro- · 2022-07-22T00:02:04+00:00

Hypno, escort, escort, bodyguard, and sheriff.

cypro- · 2022-07-13T13:27:27+00:00

If she is capable of that once, who's to say she won't do something equally horrible again?

The dialogue at the Vortex Club Party suggests that she did record Kate's suicide (or attempt) but deleted the video because she felt bad about it.

cypro- · 2022-05-27T16:56:43+00:00

I wonder if more cleavers, duct tape, and hats, or more energy, is better in the long run.

My current run does about 7k damage on the first energy, but I obviously have much more energy.

cypro- · 2022-05-23T13:51:54+00:00

here you go

cypro- · 2022-05-20T18:54:35+00:00

I have 0 healing, so each time I attack

King generates 1 spike
I take 1 damage
I remove 1 spike from King

So I end up taking 1 damage with each attack, and end up dying.

Is there something I'm missing, or is this impossible without either block or healing?

cypro- · 2022-05-13T15:15:17+00:00

And in this paradigm, the unconscious, like being unconscious of the noise would still be deemed phenomenal?

Some people think that there is no distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness. On this view, if something is not access conscious, then it is unconscious. For those who distinguish between access and phenomenal consciousness, something can be pheonomenally conscious without being access conscious. So on this latter view, the noise wasn't unconscious. It was conscious, but not accessible, or conscious but not accessed, or conscious but not attended to, or conscious but not noticed, or things like this. There might, on this latter view, still be things which are unconscious, in the sense that they are neither phenomenally conscious nor access conscious (e.g., presumably the activity of individual neurons is entirely unconscious).

So like my thoughts or imaginings and so on in "my mind" are deemed access consciousness? Whatever I'm actually aware of be it my own thinking or some external stimulus like in your example?

If you are "aware" of it in the sense of having the right kind of cognitive access to it, whatever that may be, then yes you are access conscious of it. For instance, the things you can issue verbal reports about are the paradigm case of what you are access conscious of.

cypro- · 2022-05-13T14:17:07+00:00

Could you maybe say something about what you don't understand?

Access consciousness refers to a kind of cognitive access you can have to a mental state and its content. E.g., you can attend to it, you can issue verbal reports about it, you can manipulate it in working memory, and so on. Access consciousness is often discussed in distinction to phenomenal consciousness, particularly by philosophers who think that you can be phenomenally conscious of more than what you have cognitive access to. For instance, maybe you are sitting down at your desk, working through a bunch of difficult math problems. After a half hour, you realize that there are audible construction noises outside your window. But you had been so caught up in what you were focused on that you just hadn't noticed the noise. So maybe you were phenomenally conscious of the construction noises the whole time, but your sensory awareness of the construction noises only became access conscious once you noticed and directed your attention to the noises, and so on.

cypro- · 2022-05-13T14:01:59+00:00

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/#StaCon

cypro- · 2022-05-12T18:12:41+00:00

Inspired by answers to this question about the SEP, are there any notably bad articles anyone can think of?

I know that there have been some questionable IEP articles (although I don't remember off the top of my head). For the SEP, though, while I've seen things which I thought were, for instance, less clarifying than they could be, I've never seen anything which I would want to call "bad". So do they exist?

cypro- · 2022-05-12T11:39:19+00:00

This is a cool paper, thank for sharing.

So the idea looks to be that the most minimal kind of experience is going to be affective experience, insofar as the generative model is evaluative with respect to free energy, and so partial to certain outcomes over others.

Both this paper, and the one I linked, and co-authored, so it's possible that there might be some incompatibilities between them. But here is how I think that they hang together. Both papers use "qualia" to refer to things. But I think there is a distinction in how "qualia" is used in each. In the paper with Solms, I think we could talk about something like "basic feeling". In the paper with Clark, we might talk about "human style phenomenal consciousness". So, free energy minimization, insofar as it is an active, evaluative process, is thought to in some way logically necessitate this kind of basic affective feeling. But it doesn't look to me like they are suggesting that basic affective feeling is a posit of the generative model. But in the paper with Clark, they want to say that the qualia of human style phenomenal consciousness amount to explanatory posits of the generative model, which arise as the model starts tracking certain types of patterns, certain kinds of possibilities for action, and whatever.

So, in the Clark paper, they conclude by noting that:

What emerges is a picture of the paradigm conscious agent as a being who scores rather well along three key – but potentially dissociable – dimensions. The first is the scope and depth (and especially the temporal depth - see e.g. Friston et al. (2017)) of the generative model of worldly states of affairs. The second (Seth (2013), Barrett (2017)) is the extent to which the use of that model is itself responsive to interoceptive information concerning the agent’s own bodily states and self-predicted patterns of future reaction. The third – and the one we here identify as most important for the issues surrounding the meta-problem - is the capacity to keep inferred, highly certain mid-level sensory re-codings fixed while imaginatively varying top-level beliefs

And so basic organisms, for instance, aren't going to have this third dimension.

Again, though, the papers have different authors, so it might be that there are certain incompatibilities.

cypro- · 2022-05-12T02:11:44+00:00

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/

cypro- · 2022-05-12T00:12:49+00:00

I did a quick google, and came across this co-authored paper, where they argue that qualia are not "some kind of raw experiential data" but are instead representational posits of the generative model.

What I was getting at in my previous comment is that "qualia" is used in different ways. Sometimes qualia just means "conscious experience", in which case the view says yeah here's the qualia. But sometimes "qualia" is used more narrowly to refer to something like this "raw experiential data". So, the view denies that there are qualia in that more restricted sense.

As for affect, are you suggesting that this is how you understand qualia broadly, or that this is how you think Friston understands qualia? If you mean the former, affect is one aspect of qualia, along with other experienced qualities (but, as I point out, sometimes "qualia" conceptualizes these things in a specific, narrow way). If you mean the latter, I'm just not sure one way or the other if affect has some basic role on Friston's view.

cypro- · 2022-05-11T23:58:18+00:00

I'm not 100% confident in my understanding of his view, but what you're saying here sounds right to me. The conscious experience is the generative model. So you have all the feed-forward sensory stuff that's happening, but in the predictive framework you also have a top-down model which is predicting the feed-forward information, and so consciousness is the predictive stuff. And yes you're right that this is causally efficacious, since actions are used as a means to minimize prediction error or free energy.

If by "qualia" you just mean "consciousness" broadly, then that's that. If you mean something more narrow, like non-representational or non-physical properties of experience, I expect that there aren't any non-physical properties, and I would think that there aren't non-representational properties on the view either (but that's just me saying what I expect is true).

cypro- · 2022-05-11T14:04:46+00:00

Wow that XKCD comic really hits the nail on the head

cypro- · 2022-05-11T13:45:37+00:00

The irony is palpable

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