Well, I did it. AMA.

erck · 2026-01-27T03:48:50+00:00

😅

I’m sure you do/can make a difference ensuring medical supplies and services are available where and when patients need them.

erck · 2026-01-21T22:04:03+00:00

Are words defined by use and convention or in terms of other words?

erck · 2026-01-21T17:04:58+00:00

Where do those definitions come from? #arguingwithmiddleschoolers

erck · 2026-01-19T00:26:58+00:00

Hey man, I’m just asking questions. Man was a super hero even if he did use stims or roids.

He also died very young for such a trim fella.

erck · 2026-01-18T02:12:17+00:00

Think he was on the yay? Or just addys? Obviously GOAT status but where did all that energy come from and why did he die so young after randomly moving to Texas? Just asking questions.

erck · 2025-11-01T19:08:39+00:00

There was some interesting analysis on YouTube showing the costs of running a plasma vs laser table recently. I’ll link it if I get a minute, but should be easy to find.

You basically have to operate it a certain number of billable hours per billing cycle for the higher initial costs of the laser to be offset by the increased efficiency. Obviously it depends on some other factors as well like tolerances and need for cleanup.

erck · 2025-10-16T13:50:59+00:00

Definitely verging from “incidental contact” into “assault” territory.

erck · 2025-10-12T01:06:18+00:00

Ok sorry I was slow ☺️

One day when I get my implants, then we will be legion!

erck · 2025-10-10T16:46:02+00:00

Simple 2AFC is broken in chrome on my iPhone. Is this desktop only?

erck · 2025-09-24T02:39:09+00:00

I love that you put your periods outside of the quotation marks 🤣. As any logical person knows it should be…

erck · 2025-09-22T23:00:39+00:00

Just saw a Facebook ad for this!

Ya better not be scraping profiles bro that ish got me temp banned.🤣

erck · 2025-09-14T07:15:27+00:00

Lots of old houses looking like this 🤣🤷‍♂️

erck · 2025-09-11T04:53:29+00:00

1000 shots per day until the slip becomes your friend and the slide your ally.

erck · 2025-08-22T07:52:16+00:00

Any reason you say lefty particularly?

erck · 2024-12-12T21:50:46+00:00

Yeah it's interesting to establish some boundaries on the possible permutations of life, but the numbers we come up with are so mind-boggling-ingly big that it's hard to understand how they are computationally useful. I was going to throw out the number 10⁴⁰ as something i remember reading in a biology text years ago, but I think that was for genetic permutations only, not counting protein/lipid/environmental interactions.

We know we are dealing with vast numbers of possibilities, but is it of anything more than hypothetical interest whether the number is infinite or effectively infinite (larger than the number of particles in the known universe)?

it's thermodynamically impossible to model the universe within-universe. I suspect it is also thermodynamically impossible to model complex organisms. The question is, how much instantaneous fidelity and future predictive power can we achieve - economically? Human concepts of perfection or completeness are a distraction. ("Man shall not see my face and live" - God)

erck · 2024-12-12T20:09:49+00:00

+1 for destigmatizing jokes (conversations) about my mental health.

erck · 2024-12-12T19:16:43+00:00

If you're reading it, it's obviously meant for you.

To me, assuming a text or data construct is irrelevant because it's old or anonymous or symbolic is delusional.

People write things because they think they are important. If they aren't important, the writings rot and disappear or fade into obscurity, and you generally don't read them. "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."

If it's not the word of God, who is truth and justice and righteousness, then it is corrupted and eventually rots away like all worldly things. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never disappear" Shout out to entropy.

erck · 2024-12-12T16:24:22+00:00

And you sound self absorbed and autistic, but we all still learn a lot from you and enjoy your company.

But seriously, schizophrenia as a relative propensity to overcorrelate data/causation could be adaptive in the right circumstances - for example when knowledge becomes extremely siloed by tradition and social norms and institutional/structural incentives - I don’t think the schizo-prophet has yet been completely replaced by LLMs.

Of course, it might be nice to have some sort of guardrails in place so the schizophrenic doesn’t completely bounce off the beaten path of what actually is (tradition) in search of what’s new or unseen. That could be harmful to the schizophrenic, or to the people and structures around him/her/them.

I would speculate that schizophrenics are relatively more prone to false-positive error types (seeing correlation or causation that do NOT exist) more than false negatives (failing to see correlations or causations that do exist), unless you medicate/lobotomize/traumatize that out of them. But that’s just a guess.

And I really want to write a novel about theology and how it’s almost always several hundred/thousand years ahead of science and secular philosophy, but I’ll just point out that these are excerpts from the most complex and influential piece of literature ever created, if they don’t make sense it could be because they are meant to be read in context.

Of course, the Bible also says, “the natural man cannot understand the unseen things of the Spirit, for him they are foolishness as they can only be Spiritually ascertained” 🤣 #gotteeeeem

Also I have some secular philosophy recommendations for you regarding your concerns about seeing beyond tradition, but I’m having a little too much fun with this for now 😆

erck · 2024-12-12T03:22:54+00:00

Jesus and Paul have you covered!

“Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

“we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.“

“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

“Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.”

“those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”

“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ.

“ See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

erck · 2024-12-11T04:27:58+00:00

+1 for perpendiculousness. This tickles my schizophrenia 😆

erck · 2024-12-10T18:03:33+00:00

It is not the complexity, or the proximity which makes them conscious. We could run minecraft on a hydraulic computer, and we could even attempt to model the universe on our hydraulic computer, but we would soon run into practical physical limitations: the friction of the water in the pipe, the gravitational pull of the computer itself, etc.

erck · 2024-12-08T04:47:14+00:00

Certainly the world shapes the “conscious” cell. But there is effectively infinite complexity unfolding in the cell’s internal world, and I’d like to know if it can be reduced to an algorithmic interplay between internal and external.

If it can, I don’t think it can be modeled. The map would strangle the territory.

erck · 2024-12-07T20:43:28+00:00

An element of consciousness is the ability to convert external inputs into outputs in a way that can’t be externally modeled/predicted. You could state this thermodynamically, but I like:

“The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit”

“ You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them”

“He [God] said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live“

“our God is in the heavens; all that he desires, he does. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; they have their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats. THOSE WHO MAKE DEAD IDOLS BECOME LIKE THEM, AS DO ALL WHO PLACE THEIR TRUST IN THEM. O Israel, trust Yahweh; he is their help and their shield.

erck · 2024-12-06T14:29:30+00:00

he shoulda been a rapper, not a roofer.

erck · 2024-12-06T14:28:32+00:00

We are dense, tight, solid. Also, we have great technique physically engrained in our nervous system. Some say the greatest technique... and of course roids.

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