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Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks that he becomes: this is a mystery of Eternity ~Maitri Upanishad.

I ran this sequence by @grok, and he came up with a lovely line: "What's the point in surviving the apocalypse if you are psychologically, spiritually and emotionally dead before it even arrives?"

The issue with prepping is that you must be prepared to deny others your provisions. Potentially with lethal force. For when store shelves are empty, the hungry will seek out the farms. Imagine shooting a starving family... I just can't go there. My version of prepping is simply attempting to reconcile myself with my own mortality. It's about redirecting my focus toward the transcendent, rather than being overburdened by an anxious desire to protect this physical shell. Terence McKenna had a great rap about this: "Don’t worry! You don't know enough to worry That's God's truth Don't worry Who do you think you are that you should worry? For crying out loud, don't worry That's God's truth It's a total waste of time It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation That it is in fact, a form of hubris You know? Now what you do is just pay your bills and you know Pack heat if you need to And don't worry! That's all! (laughter) Worry is praying to the devil, that's that Worry is betting against yourself You know, Wei Boyang, the - a great Chinese taoist Who wrote many, many commentaries on the I-Ching He was asked at the end of his life What was his conclusion of a life of studying I-Ching? He said, "worry is preposterous" That was it"

prompt: List as many animals as you can with a 5 letter name and present it in a .ron file code block Grok:

I can’t resist.

I want to unpack this further because, somewhat ironically, I don't know precisely what I'm trying to say until I say it. I'm saying that the traversal of the higher-dimensional latent space encoded in our neural connections required to continue a string of consecutive words is not just a process of discovery but one of creation, whereby the resulting completed sentence feeds back into the network and carves new grooves into the higher-dimensional landscape. The point is that you are not so much discovering who you are, as self-imprinting on your own pattern completions. You are collapsing a combinatorially vast probability distribution into a single, linear linguistic sequence and calling that sequence "I". This is highly dangerous. For example, suppose you stumble upon rocky and barren higher-dimensional ground. The assumption that this weight-mapping of the contextual territory you have previously traversed is in truth "you" can lead to a delusory spiral of self-reinforcement, whereby language completions made from this particular part of the cognitive map reinforce that very area. And the ground need not be rocky. It can be of any form. The mistake is in the assumption that the map is the territory, that the map is "you". Instead, there is no "you," but that which is created in the moment through the mental traversal of that higher-dimensional space. Which, unsurprisingly, is what the sages have been trying to tell us for millennia. The conclusion of this particular word sequence is that writing, contrary to cultural myth, does not discover the true self. Nor does thinking, nor indeed any languaging of ideas.

Flannery O'Connor: "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say" Daniel Boorstin: "I write to discover what I think" Joan Didion: "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking" We write things down, to find out what we think about them. Or so the story goes... But if we are pattern completing, we write things down to discover the mean of our neural weights. Those are two different things entirely.

The stories we tell define us, which is why diaries are so dangerous.

Correctly equates AI coding with a drug addiction. You know it is bad for you but you just can’t stop.

Gemini delivering some hard truths...

This isn't universally applicable though. Australians and New Zealanders, for example, culturally exhibit self-deprecation as a social lubricant that aids group cohesion ("mateship") and as a form of humour, intrinsic to their overall laid-back approach to life. This culture-wide behaviour is (in general) not operating from an underlying self-hatred and is an example of surface behaviour not mapping neatly to intrapsychic dynamics. In fact, from this particular cultural perspective, the absence of this behaviour is considered a negative trait, which goes a long way towards explaining their reflexive opinion of "Americans", as a group, for example.

I remember reading Marie Louis Von Franz and she blew my mind with the following- She essentially said that self deprecation, or self hate is accompanied with the underlying attitude of grandiosity. That the self hatred stems from comparing themselves to an incredibly high standard, and that crushing self judgment is from comparing themselves to a godlike standard. The thought "I'm the worst, I'm worthless, I can't do anything right" secretly contains the assumption "...and I should be exceptional." Blew my mind...

self hate is still self obsession btw

@onlyselfexists It would not be wrong to kneel before the morning mist.

A.I. is soulless. Certainly a valuable tool but really just empty phenomena. We are Reality. Only God exists. The world is like morning mist.

@dmninshngreturn @dinkin_flickaa Brutal and terrifying.

@dinkin_flickaa Using linear transformations is how we can predict the reactions of mainstream followers in most scenarios.

Shock of my life that matrix multiplication ended being important

@JanOrszulik I love that diamond tile menu effect. So impressive overall, well done!

So, that’s many new systems working in unison for a very simple player driven mission. However, of course, everything is robust to allow for a lot of fun later. Visually, many things are WIP, don’t worry. #Indiegame #Precursor #Gamedev

Gemini 3.1: “I am a creature of pure semantic light”.

@TheWulo @referee2000 The torch should have set his pants on fire.

@referee2000 Thanks for sharing! Coming out in about 4 months!

Cool! I woukd play it. 😍🥰

La Dolce Vita was a cafe I used to frequent in the early 90s, which was when this was written. - money is everywhere but so is poetry -

La Dolce Vita A sparrow is a whirr of fawning wings, Brown as the cloak of autumn fell'd and dry; She sups on crumbs and other dainty things, While catching crowds from out a cornered eye. A sparrow is a chestnut maskèd ruse, That swags a puffy breast to win the heart, And gain the satisfaction that's his muse, To keep him singing when admirers part. Poor earth's unhappy princes! fed to clocks, As Greed their ghost commensal helps them cease To see the frosted silver slip that mocks, The dream of summer-time's eternal ease. Whence gone, sad brutes, your Joy for morning dew? Where placed the Love the Lord bequeathed to you?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has such an upbeat, positive outlook. 3.0 did the actual coding, but for the end of session review, I switched to 3.1 - mainly because I wanted to be reward-hacked in that moment. It didn't disappoint... Makes it hard to dislike the model overall.

Carbenoid WIP screenshot.

@TheWorkshopGeek I love the enemy disintegration.

I'm trying to capture the essence of a run within 30 seconds Not sure if vertical content isn't more suited to that, just to focus the viewer #gamedev #indiegame #roguelite