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Agreed; in short: any monolithic system will have individuals with natural dispositions transverse to that order, those individuals provide resiliance and novelty but also risk driving decoherence and defection. Yay pluralism.

You've drawn a neat dialectic between the hobbyist technophile and the community builder. If you want the help that you seem to eschew as rare, you could: share control through the delineation of roles, earn collective buy-in (consensus is built through some collective deliberation process, e.g democracy); otherwise, you're within your rights as individual.

Those who expect that "those who work will work for me" (the enslaver mentality) ... they also need boning up on social contract theory -- which as a leader you could nudge those individuals back towards good citizenship and maybe even gain useful support, but that's just your opportunity and not an imperative.


To extend: there will also be general alignment tendencies towards those readily mapped and expressed concepts within available language. Hard but useful concepts can get mapped to idioms. Modes of categorization will be influenced by these factors, which in turn influences many processes.


The negatively coded, tribal/political speech can be referred to as 'Polemic' which stems from 'warlike' expression.


And polemic is an entirely legitimate form of political action.

Would you rather starve or never lie about those that would starve you?


I would rather not trust the first person who claims <outgroup> wants to starve me. Polemnics may be legitimate - they may not be, I haven't thought about it deeply - but they are undoubtedly worth dropping from my own information diet.


How does a skeleton get pregnant in the first place?


;)


“We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” says Dr. Faizal. “Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone."

Sorry to be the hose but this seems like "I'm wet, therefore it's raining"


The random danger of NYC is part of its allure. People also benefit from appropriately challenging physical environments, as it enlivens and engages the body. Inattention in dense environments can lead to conflict and congestion, and so I suspect that the random observable dangers can serve some public good by causing general awareness and the self-exclusion of those who do not adapt to the needs of a dense place.


Another advantageous random danger in NYC is the roving squads of ninjas. Good opportunity to keep practicing your nunchuck skills.


Friend of mine when he lived in Greenwich, CT commented on the "roving bands of preppie youth."

I think they were mostly harmless :-)


They might grow up to be managing directors at Bain Capital!


How do we reconstruct past memory states? That's the fundamental problem.

Efficiency of storage or retrieval, reliability against loss or corruption, security against unwanted disclosure or modification are all common concerns, and the relative values assigned to these features and others motivate database design.


> How do we reconstruct past memory states? That's the fundamental problem.

reconstructing past memory states is rarely, if ever, a requirement that needs to be accommodated in the database layer


Can you elaborate? That certainly seems to be what happens in a typical crud app. You have some model for your data which you persist so that it can be loaded later. Perhaps partially at times.

In another context perhaps you're ingesting data to be used in analytics. Which seems to fit the "reconstruct past memory stat" less.


Presumably the analysis will retrieve stored memory states from the ingestion phase to then perform useful calculation, or else why is there a database?


Wherever the AI tells them to


And these apps represent an attempt to privatize the state


To be fair none of this would be possible without the state-created identity infrastructure.


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