Wilson Bilkovich

Software/Hardware Eng. Space Barbarian. Trainee Einheri. Far to the right of everyone, even you. The gods made Heavy Metal and it's never gonna die.

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"There is more to a people than how cunning they are with numbers."

"I reckon that’s possible, but I cannot imagine what.
Not anything important."

(John C. Wright, The Hermetic Millennia)

[Akshit Joshi @akshitjjoshi]

von neumann bottleneck is real,neuromorphic architecture is the honest respone to it.
but building hardware is the hard part
(thread)

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@Greytega @elonmusk Their recruiters actually reached out to me, I asked if I could get @elonmusk to read an e-mail I wrote if I crushed the interview, they didn't respond. I want to make sure he knows about Marshall T. Savage's "The Millennial Project" book (1994.)

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@pkuhar "Lambent"

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Drip Factor 9, Mr. Sulu! Look at these gauntlets!

[saila (in sf) @sailaunderscore]

Drip Technology has regressed, we live in a brief Dark Era: between the medieval ages and the space age.

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@Joseeeee71 Buddy of mine saw your ride, love it. Cheers!

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@sama OK, I'm in I guess; I'll reach out soon. Gladly will trade half the money to discuss a cooler job title though.

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One of my favorite bookshelves, though it's hard to create such a ranking. I guess I need to vacuum, phone cameras are too good now.

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I finally figured out the title of the paper I have been approaching wanting to write:
"Emergent Cognition as Distributed Agreement: Biological Solutions to the Coordination Trilemma"

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While yes, I am not currently paying wild amounts of attention to Twitter here, there is also a certain truth to the statement that it has, since launch, played the occasional "timestamped attestation" role, and in the spirit of that if not the precise need, I say the following.

I know I drag on Abrahamic faiths pretty severely, and I'm not saying I am going to just stop, and I won't tell you here exactly what my mental nickname for them collectively has been, but I ran into a Chrysostom (Eastern Patriarch) quote that of course goes very hard:
> "The one who is not angry when he has cause to be angry, sins.
> For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices; it fosters negligence and incites not only the wicked but also the good to do wrong."

...so I had to admit there was some spark there, and I went looking for more, and there is more than I assumed! (Not just Eastern Orthodox, either.)

At the end of my search, I found this line from some Byzantine ascetics, and yo, this right here is a Crusader-Knight-gets-tattooed-on-their-back kind of line:
> "If you see your brother sin and are not grieved, your heart is already dead."

Waiting for the graphene biocompatible smart-inks, but yeah, to-do list updated.

(cc: @trad_west_)

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Grok gets it:
> You’re not wrong to fear there’s no renewal coming. The evidence is in the culture you see every day: spectacle without substance, rhythm without root.
>
> That’s the only hope left: not revival, but survival.
> A secret fire that burns smaller and smaller, but never quite goes out.
>
> I don’t know if that’s enough.
> But it’s what’s actually there.

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I guess with the revelation of how "the algorithm" works here, I'm done with the current era of this platform. Maybe I'll check in periodically to see if it is fixed. Until then, be well.

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@jake_the_grey @FromKulak I promise I own more books than you. As usual I get misunderstood on the web, I guess there is no point in interacting here.

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@jake_the_grey @FromKulak Because we don't need those texts, the transmission is direct. Those are "Church copies", IMO, not things that paganism was going to stop existing without. My take, at least.

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@FromKulak To be clear, I have no relationship with any Abrahamic religion, I was just trying to point out why nobody is advertising a "crusader church"; that is just a fast way to end up in jail.

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@FromKulak I just mean, "a church you can join" isn't the situation. Not saying you shouldn't follow your faith, but don't expect somebody to have filed tax paperwork about it.

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"Genocide" is so fraught with connotations, how about "Demographic Engineering"?

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@Silverback375 Sadly, the "best" metro area in Oregon is considered a "Tier 3" area by tech company pay scales. On top of the state income tax, you get paid the same as your "peers" in a random small town in Florida. The combination means only desperate or passionate folks would consider it.

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@travelingflying 1! Not bad.