#this is a finite resource

[tracle0]

What annoys me the most about generative AI is that whenever critiques about it are raised, the environmental impact is glossed over, if mentioned at all.

[comraderoscoes]

max calling race control idiots at the very same track race control intervened to hand him a championship… girl you’re the devil and they’re your 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. don’t act like you’re hard done by when they’ve sucked you off for free for 3 years

[muaka-safari]

I have been thinking about the differences between Metru Nui and Mata Nui (the island) recently, and the prev post has reminded me again but - there really had to have been a mentality shift between moving from the former to the latter

for multiple reasons, but the one that's been on my mind is the lack of replacements

like, in Metru Nui, if you lose part of the workforce, a new batch will get created, no problem, but Mata Nui has a finite population. It's an inescapably dwindling number in a strange new world that is constantly evolving fresh ways to kill you

after 1000 yrs, how many had they lost? Were the Turaga counting their numbers and doing the maths - how long before there were none? Before their situation becomes untenable?

were the Matoran aware of this? Or had the memory loss of their time in Metru Nui dulled them to this realisation - that this wasn't the normal way of life, the way they were meant to exist?

they had lived with an ever-rotating cast of colleagues and neighbours in Metru Nui, there's a chance that the millennium on Mata Nui was one of the most socially-stable periods they'd ever encountered. Not only because there weren't new faces to learn, but also because it was a shrinking number

these are your neighbours, the last and only neighbours you'll ever know

[chestnutbeomie]

good morning beautiful people i saw this on twitter and had to bring it here too

yunho's post for jongho's birthday in 2024

(also hi @storkmuffin the jongho thesis is coming i just realised i have like six times more stuff to say than i expected but in the meantime here's a piece of evidence to support said thesis 🫡)

[pv1isalsoimportant]

(Semi-regularly updated) list of resources for (not only) young mathematicians interested in logic and all things related:

Igor Oliveira's survey article on the main results from complexity theory and bounded arithmetic is a good starting point if you're interested in these topics.

The Complexity Zoo for information on complexity classes.

The Proof Complexity Zoo for information on proof systems and relationships between them.

Computational Complexity blog for opinions and interesting blog posts about computational complexity and bunch of other stuff.

Student logic seminar's home page for worksheets on proof complexity, bounded arithmetic and forcing with random variables (great introduction for beginners).

Eitetsu Ken's list for resources on proof complexity, computational complexity, logic, graph theory, finite model theory, combinatorial game theory and type theory.

Jan Krajíček's page is full of old teaching materials and resources for students (click past teaching) concernig logic, model theory and bounded arithmetic. I also recommend checking out his books. They are basically the equivalent of a bible for this stuff, although they are a bit difficult to read.

I also recommend the page of Sam Buss, there are downloadable versions of most of his articles and books and archive of old courses including resources on logic, set theory and some misc computer science. I especially recommend his chapters in Hnadbook of Proof Theory.

Amir Akbar Tabatabai's page for materials on topos theory and categories including lecture notes and recordings of lectures.

Andrej Bauer's article "Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics" for a funny and well-written introduction into constructive mathematics.

Lean Game Server for learning the proof assistant Lean by playing fun games.

[shadelorde]

something I’ve noticed with all this polyamory “discourse” (bigotry) is that 90% of tumblr can’t even actually identify what the the actual problem with cheating is.

[why-the-heck-not]

cons of researching an interesting thing: I keep getting distracted by my own damn topic, reading angles I don’t even slightly need for this

[gynandromorph]

and then you can say "well it's your fault for posting art publicly, that means it's free for anyone to do literally anything they want to with it" we're talking about artists with real well-paying jobs, do you think it's their decision if or how their art was distributed by their commissioner? do you really think every artist has had complete control over every instance of their art online? do you really think artists were supposed to psychically prophesize there would be climate-hurting-machines that could make shitty versions of their art as a side effect because they posted their art online (necessary to maintain any kind of audience or living as an independent artist btw). you'd be wrong, lmao!! internet equivalent of saying "if you didn't want me taking your picture you shouldn't have gone out in public"

[comraderoscoes]

“the king of mexico” … and it’s a white spanish man .. the king of mexico … a white spanish man .. the king of mexico … a white spanish man … the king of mexico … a white spanish man …

[captainsparklefingers]

Actually, I got more thoughts re: the mortalification of the Exandrian pantheon (some of which have already been said), because while I think the way we got to this point was INCREDIBLY rushed and stupid and poorly executed, and I think there SHOULD be major world changing consequences that just...don't seem to be happening in canon...I DO think the idea is interesting, at least on paper.

Putting it below a cut because I'm not capable of shutting up, apparently.

Like, how would this work? Are the gods going to all be reborn as mortals at the same time or is it going to be a staggered process like it appears to have been during Downfall? Are they born with that immediate awareness of what they were, or, like with consecution, do those memories and knowledge come back as they grow up?

Would these mortal forms have powers greater than the average Exandrian due to, you know, gods, or have they really nerfed their abilities as part of the mortal experience?

And what happens at the end of these mortal lives? The fact that a Luxon Beacon had to be used as part of this ritual made it seem (at least to me) that this could be a cycle of death, divinity, and rebirth back into mortality that repeats over and over, because if this is just for one lifetime, what's to stop Predathos from coming back when the food returns?

Obviously there's the social and societal structural implications that come with the gods just suddenly being gone, and there SHOULD be consequences on divine magic... there aren't, but I wonder if one way this could be handled is that things are running on residual divine magic that's still hanging around, but it's a finite resource that's going to inevitably dry up. At least that's what I'd do if I went this route and didn't want an immediate impact on how paladins and clerics worked.

And what would this means for the gods as individuals? We know, for example, that Asmodeus HATES mortals, and now he's among them. The first time around nothing seems to have changed his perspective during his time as Father Milo; would things be different this time? Like. You're a normal person being raised by other normal people, you have friends and family and you love and are loved...and suddenly you start to remember this other life and this hatred you have. Would ANY of that be compromised by the lived experience?

And could that go both ways? Could, say, Pelor grow up as somebody who hates people or is not a good person only to remember all of this past stuff?

Would the experience of all of this be different for Vecna and the Matron, being former mortals who are now mortals again?

And then of course you have aspects that others have talked about, like 20 people pretending to be Pelor, cults of personality, the power vacuum left behind and how badly that could go, the demigods and pseudogods, what this means for the champions of the gods...

And what if they have families and children down the road? Tris's kids were demigods who had powers that kicked in and saved them and were implied to have important destinies. Do the children of these mortal avatars have unique abilities or are uncommonly strong themselves?

And the cults! Tiamat's cult, the Cult of the Caustic Heart, they still exist, Calli hasn't taken them out completely yet as far as I'm aware. They wanted Tiamat free and GUESS WHAT she's basically free now, just mortal! The Cult of the Whispered One! Other Betrayer cults! I can't see those going away any time soon and in fact I could see them getting WORSE because they know their god is out there somewhere and they might be able to directly get them involved in shit.

And what about fanatics? That village that was way into the Dawnfather and was using force to suppress the nature cults, what does this mean for them? Do they feel more empowered and get worse and more oppressive or extreme? Do they just kinda fade off and die out?

I do think it's an interesting idea. I like the concept on paper and some of the possibilities it could bring in terms of world altering. I don't like how last minute it felt, how easy it seemed to be to convince all the gods to go along with this, and the fact that everyone and everything seems to basically be the same after this happens.

And I don't like that there's so many ways this COULD go but it's not clear what, if any of them, will happen. Right now this was basically a decision that's changed nothing, which is disappointing because it could mean SO many different things or cause so many changes.

[cinemaocd]

I've really been on tumblr 15 years today. Fucked up if true.

[deepspaceboytoy]

The fact that after all this, Hamas is keeping captured IOF troops alive at all instead of doming them where they find them is a testament to mercy, not cruelty

[bubblesoflingflowers]

Why is it so hard for people to be empathic towards others? Like not even just strangers cause, sure you’re gonna meet a dick every now and then, but like family?

My sibling could not understand the fact that I cannot sleep in a “normal” schedule. I literally cannot fall asleep at night if I am not exhausted from staying up way too long. If I try to go to sleep before midnight, I won’t fell asleep and just roll around in bed and get anxious for not sleeping in the correct time and then be awake even a longer time. I have cried so many nights cause I was stressed about sleep.

I was certain that people could understand that all of us are different people and that sleeping schedules do not always fall in the correct way, but no. They were adamant that I just haven’t tried enough and that I could fix my sleep by just going to be earlier, but like no? Wouldn’t one think that if I have had these issues since I was born that I have tried to fix it? I haven’t been twiddling my thumbs about this. Being undiagnosed ADHD is already bad enough, not getting sleep is even worse.

I pulled out so many different researches and different medical diagnosis, but no. Nothing. They have never had issues with sleep, so ig it just doesn’t exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s also so much fun to explain that cause of ADHD there is stuff that I just cannot do. I just cannot make myself do them and there is no way to go around it. There is a mental block that keeps me not doing stuff. I just don’t get it why can’t people understand that sometimes people just can’t. There is no way to push forward and sometimes there is just stuff that cannot be done. Thank god for the meds helping a little bit with the mental block and all. I’m just so tired of needing to explain myself every time that there is a conversation.

[acertainmoshke]

I finally sent out STS asks! Yes it's Sunday, but time is fake. If I DIDN'T send you one and you would LIKE one please interact with this post! We don't have to be mutuals, I have enough asks for everyone

[fieriframes]

[The wasting of finite resources is everyones business.]

[inafieldofstarflowers]

Because my blog was primarily made as a space for me to speak into the void about star wars content, most of my mutuals are also star wars fans, and I cannot tell you how much i love when they post about some other thing i love and I get to go “YOU love THIS?? I love this!!” It’s just so fun & I love the fact that love is not a finite resource and so we can bond over shared love of silly little shows and characters and parts of the world