AI - the IQ Test for Society
Yea. And that's that! Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
On a different note: I understand now that when I fall asleep, sortof, while watching a Video it is at base
because my brain is refusing to further assimilate any of that information. I assume that being in a somewhat
relaxed state is a catalyst to that outcome. And it's not because it's not interesting. It's the opposite.
Like ... I really enjoyed the channel Kruggsmash. So much so that by some point I had seen almost all of
his videos - looking foward to the next. And yea, this stuff is so full of little stories and details - I suppose it's
just too much at some point. I noticed it today while watching a video on Lambda Calculus. Like, I wasn't
tired - like ... not that I could tell. I hadn't been awake that long.
On the other hand then ... Slop might just be the opposite. It's like ... utterly non-offensive to the brain because
nothing about it even tries to spark a legitimate thought. I mean, those "And they said AI is slop! Haha! Check Mate"
posts are the weirdest thing on the planet to me. I mean, I suppose you have to see this through the lens of
someone who uses AI to jerk off. It's like dog whistling to the in group. But that only goes to re-enforce the
argument.
And it's ironic. I just saw a chubbyemu video on someone taking Bromium because AI kind of suggested it
was OK to do so. And the way Bromium then works differently to Chlorine while still being "technically the
same" ... is ... a very fitting analogy.
Currently - sortof - watching an Adam Connover video (OpenAI wants you to go insane) and the opening
statement just ... yea, exactly the tune I've low key wanted to strike a couple of times now. Like ... OK, AI is
... going to help us somehow. Allegedly. So, what does image manipulation and video generation have to do
with that?
I mean - it may be the carrot on the stick to get enough money to finance these data centers that are then
supposed to ... do ... what? Probably running war games.
For Pedophiles.
A pros pos: Grok. I think it's totally fair to hold X liable for what Grok does. That's actually the simplest and
least invasive way to go about it. If it does stuff that's bad - don't have it! Give or take but ... this is a bullseye
kind of case in that regard.
Just like that ... story on Legal Eagle between that Journalist (Anna something) and that ... Trump Tramp
Attorney something. Whatever. I mean, another great example of a Bullseye.
And yea. Living in the USA right now must be frustrating. I mean, how do you listen to people talk about
'Justice' ... when the top of it all looks as it does?
But yea. I'm reliefed that ... I'm far from the only one who's like ... is 'adjutated' the right word? And to see
the kind of people I'm like aligned with in that sense ... yea, ... I don't have to feel all that bad about myself.
I don't know what to write about right now. It's crazy tho how fast the last week has gone by. I barely remember
any of it. I mean, I wouldn't think that what I did - looking at what I have NOW - would take so much time - but
then ... at least it's all ... solid. Well - apart from the one or the other mistake that then sat as an extra burden on
my mind and that distinct feeling of "Ugh, my head" is still very much fresh in my short-term memory.
So yea, as of yet ... there's a lot I still have to do that wouldn't take all that much time. Update the Arch Setup
because of some errors here and there - maybe some explanation on some of the choices in my code, like
... to give you that one: a and v (I'm particular about them being lower case). It's hebrew. So, technically Aleph,
Bet and Gimel - but cooler. So, Aleph is still Aleph, Bet becomes veeth because technically Bet has an extra
thingy to make it a B rather than a V if I recall correctly and Gimel sounds silly to me so I make it gam'el. Doesn't
matter. It's a, v and g - a=top down, as the Light basically, v=right to left as in hebrew writing and g is from near
to far because that's the way.
The primary motivator behind that was to "clean" up the coordinate system because what it has organically
grown to is kind of whack. In a ... "princess on the pea" kind of way, but still. What I man is that Z is basically -
in how it appears always - just "the extra dimension". I mean ... it's X and Y, usually, to denote a 2D plane. That
can - depending on how you want it - be either a vertical or a horizontal plane. But so, because that's how the
math works ... X is left to right and Y is ... vertical. Whichever way. And then there's Z. It's kind of disjointed.
To say: Moving the vertical coordinate to either the front or the back makes the pairing more ... pretty. You have
one pair for the horizontal and one for the vertical. Subsequently you'd move it to the front because you start
in 2D - with the screen being a vertical thing. So, here it's a and then v - and for the horizontal plane you have
vg. I just find it smarter that way. And so - while I was doing that anyway; I could also do some extra. Other than
that it's just math - so, there's no actual overhead outside of importing images.
There is, maybe, an argument to be had that a should point upward - I mean, I do run into confusions about that
myself sometimes, but then the screen coordinates would start at the bottom right ... and I don't know. That ...
doesn't feel right.
But sure - in almost every instance WE start at the bottom and move upward - basically. But it has to be either
one - and so, it is what it is; While it technically isn't STRICTLY neccessary ... whatever. Deal with it.
Originally I was a lot weirder or ... more aggressive about renaming things. I mean ... my christian sensitivities
were somewhat ... in peril upon encountering the shorthand for sine. So I renamed it 'akibus' - and the
cosine was subsequently named 'copto'. There would be an argument to further distinguish the two as I find
their relation isn't ... I mean, it is very tangent centric I suppose. And it's not like the cosine isn't relevant on
its own; Yet the term implies some kind of co-dependency, which ... sure ... there is a distinct similarity that
the tangent isn't in on - and at the end of the day I'd need a visible diagram to look at anyway.
Ultimately there is a deeper reasoning behind this still - namely: Function Pointers that need to be there
somewhere (references to external functions) which is like a problem I zipped up and put aside because I don't
care all that much; But still it's always present because ... there may be a different solution. I thought of one -
basically the T Core is kind of where I'm looking at for that - but ... uhm ... I don't want to commit to anything
in that regard just yet. The first idea was to have fixed length arrays/legacy structures - alongside some "get me
this super specific function pointer" function - but I felt like working on it seriously would be a waste of time.
Anyway. Yea - so ... I recently got praise for taking it slow/easy ... which is ... the closing note for this one.
Have nice one!
The new and improved
i3status.conf. Hmm ... yea, googling stuff ... trying out
things - that took some chunks of time ... .