Mads "Agony Aunt" Viande @byttyrs@monads.online

I couldn't fix him... but I could punish him

little homos room

BIG homo's room

other people: I write things in a planner as I learn about them, and then on a day-to-day basis I compile the most urgent and relevant into to-do lists, and then I proceed through the tasks on my list until they are all done

me, awed and humbled: truly, even your grimoire and the humblest of your paper talismans are steeped in your power! why, through all my studies in perturbing my subtle body, I have only succeeded in setting and following through on one 'to-do' ritual at a time

a little master thread of things I've made that you can or should read:

I was kidding but that's very sweet

jumping in to the TL to riff on my post about the utility monster without even boosting the original? [insert Godfather monologue here]

grimey hyperpop is fine but I miss shiny hyperpop

considering the history and class interests of both christianity and AI research, it turns out that pascal's wager and the utility monster are the exact same thought experiment

sometimes "objectively the best" has a clear meaning (from context) that is provable, i.e., that no substantially different thing can be objectively better or that any substantially different thing is objectively worse

that's almost always going to be a situation where "best" means "optimal" and, honestly, "why didn't your joke 'objective' take have statistics and science backing it up" guys can't be trusted with the word optimal either. you still have to define what optimal means and for what terms,

and treating literary/media criticism as being the same kind of discourse as, say, a video on the 'most optimal' build in a video game is. uh. [gestures depressedly] god how awful