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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

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Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don't be alarmed; that's normal.
No, I'm not interested in voting for your candidate.

3mo ago

We're back baby!
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 3mo ago
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4mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: Pamela Bondi to be deported, currently kept in undisclosed warehouse

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Awww you got my hopes up for a second 😭

4mo ago

Only lead works against fascists, but libs can only "Protest and vote" 😁

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Goddamn right, we want everything, not just the banks

🍴😁🏴

4mo ago

radical agents

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

My position is that you should be seen to be entirely free to make your own choices, even if the choice you make is to rape me.

I literally cannot conjure up a better example for what kinds of mistakes you can internalize by doing a clean-room design of anarchism.

I end up discovering that their reasoning has been tainted by their own authoritarian habits, presumptions or even ambitions.

That's magical thinking. Yeah there's no such thing as a pure anarchist text and we are all shaped by the oppressions we are subject to, but the reasonable response is not to retreat into your own head, since you are certainly just as "tainted" as anyone else. Instead, the reasonable response is to read all texts critically, i.e. assume a perfect text does not exist.

And frankly, I don't even want to read solely anarchist books. There are lots of people who make excellent contributions to various fields of endeavor who are not necessarily anarchists. E.g., I loved Omar El-Akkad's book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on the Gaza genocide, and I recommend every anarchist read it even though El-Akkad is not an anarchist to the best of my knowledge. It's up to us to approach literature with a critical assessment.

4mo ago

anti-anti-america

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

How tf is this even remotely controversial, people? Death to

and its hideous empire, and you're not an anarchist or anti-capitalist if you defend the most powerful living example of capitalism, racism, settler-colonialism, the state, and what inevitably happens when we fail to abolish authoritarian and hierarchical systems.

4mo ago

Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

I'm sure the next asshole's gonna be just as bad or worse, but lol go fuck yourself Bondi 🖕😆🖕

4mo ago

SBA #76 THE FOOT LONG COMPENDIUM CONUNDRUM CONTINUES

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

It's just under 1% of a billionaire's wealth. That's how much money these fucking ghouls have 💀

4mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

My condolences

4mo ago

radical agents

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

It's just a simple step from "you should convinced to do this" to "you should be compelled to do this."

It's actually a huge step, actually. It's like... the whole thing. It's "here's why it would be neat if you consented to this, but you can do something else if you like" versus "do it lol".

Which is a freedom the majority of the world already possesses, so rather obviously it doesn't ensure or even imply anarchism.

Privilege spotted. The majority of the world absolutely does NOT have freedom of association, even de jure.

And beyond that, more pointedly but less obviously, ideological collectives (as yours does) always carry with them an unstated presumption that the entity from which people would be free to disassociate would rightfully hold some property.

No they don't, you're imagining that. E.g., you can have multiple distinct anarchist collectives in the same area.

So you're actually, already, envisioning an entity that would ... establish the norms that are expected of those who live there.

1000% yes. If you join a chess club started by me, you can't shit on the chessboards. You are free to start a chess club where shitting on the chessboards is allowed/encouraged. Establishing norms is not necessarily a system of domination or hierarchy.

As long as people continue to believe that they can and should have some say over other people's decisions, anarchism will fail.

If someone decides to rape me, I am wrecking their shit. That's a bad decision and I'm not gonna respect it at all. It's not authoritarian to make and act on that judgment call. Obviously, this is perfectly in line with anarchist theory and praxis.

There are plenty of less extreme examples where someone's decisions will harm someone else, e.g. insert an example from almost any undergraduate ethics textbook.

I gotta be so real with you: you seem like you want to do anarchism with the seriousness and care it deserves, but I suspect you're trying to do a "clean room design" of anarchist principles. Please just do the reading. Anarchist literature is informed by generations of praxis and mistakes that you have no way of accumulating in a "clean room" within a single lifetime. There are even anarchists who make your arguments a lot more convincingly than you're doing.

4mo ago

Triangle

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Where they'll be free to kill all the ~~humans~~ bourgeoisie.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

A dimension is a measurement, by basic definition.

Nope. It's a historical accident (and mistake IMO) that (mathematical) dimension and physical dimension have the same word "dimension".

For example, in dynamical systems, we often work with so-called non-dimensionalized systems, i.e. we multiply the equations by the reciprocal of the physical dimension and end up with a system of unitless equations. This system may then be a N-dimensional system of unitless equations, i.e. you have N scalar equations.

Edit: Fuckit, I just realized that Fahrenheit and Celsius are both the same dimension, just with a different scalar and constant offset. Not much different with Kelvin..

Basically correct. Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin are all different units of the same dimensioned quantity, namely temperature.

4mo ago

radical agents

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

There are really only two broad options - whatever people make up an anarchistic society will make whatever choices they make for whatever reasosns they make them, and enough of them will be conscious enough of the need to compromise to do so, and they'll end up with a more or less stable society that might be hastily generalized in some broad and necessarily inaccurate ways

This... sounds like anarchism succeeding. IMO, being an anarcho-communist (or whatever) is trying to persuade people to use anarchist communism (or whatever) as the framework to make better choices "for whatever reasons they make them", because we think that this is a good framework for reasoning about an uncertain world. But if you want to think differently about anarchism, that's completely fine, welcome even. Diversity is strength. But that doesn't mean I'm gonna stop passionately advocating for what I think is right.

One of the many ways by which anarchism could fail is by ideologues digging their heels in and refusing to compromise on any of the dogma stipulated by the label to which they've sworn allegiance.

All forms of anarchism organize on the basis of free association. Again, dissatisfied parties can freely disassociate and go do their own thing. Or, they can reach a compromise. Either outcome is not a failure of anarchism.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Every gamer in the world is already processing in 6 dimensional visual memory space.

Nah, by your logic, they're processing in much higher dimensions, one for each cone cell. But your brain processes these sensors into a two-dimensional spatial image that varies with time. (When a signal processing system performs this, we call it sensor fusion. And in fact, machine learning is a huge part of sensor fusion.) But even then, gamers aren't just responding to the visual stimuli, but they're tracking the abstractions of the game, such as players, enemies, terrain, etc. And then the physics engine inside a modern game typically implements either 2D or 3D space, plus time. And then the configuration space of all the objects a gamer needs to track adds dimensions.

But these high-dimensional objects...they really have structure that enables us to split them into groups of 1, 2, or 3. That's not necessarily a helpful move for high-dimensional spaces in general.

Like I'm not saying that you literally never can or should visualize high-dimensional objects, e.g. in Hilbert spaces a lot of plane and 3D geometry intuition survives, but some situations are just not amenable to visual learning. (Conversely, of course, some situations require visual learning. But it's important to be able to use all learning styles to some extent.)

4mo ago

radical agents

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

As long as you're not creating a new state, systems of domination, hierarchies, etc., then go do what you want. Anarcho-collectivism (or -communism, or -syndicalism, or mutualism) doesn't mean imposing those frameworks of anarchist organization on the proletariat and the ecology; it just means we have a viewpoint on which mode(s) of organization have the best chance of achieving liberation.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

I am literally an electrical engineering PhD student. I literally took a course on sensors last year. I know how compasses work. I did not mean to imply that compass sensors are AI sensors (whatever that means).

I'm acknowledging that your experience of people being mean to you for being right, while frustrating, is irrelevant to draw any conclusions about the book I recommended.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

except for the people that don't understand multiple dimensions..

...which is most people, actually. So you're kinda making the case against having a figure, because you would have to project your 5D object onto a 2D space, where both topology and graph theory simplify dramatically. Topological graph theory can tell us that there exist graphs with topologies that cannot be embedded into 2D or even 3D space without intersections, meaning you would have to make some sacrifices to draw these graphs within your framework.

But that's not even how it works. If you allow for intersections, you can always draw a graph on a piece of paper. Which they do.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

but they treat me like shit, as if I don't know what a fucking compass sensor is..

I'm sorry that's happening to you, but that's completely irrelevant. The book I recommended predates AI, so it cannot be AI slop.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Because it's a completely different algorithm. Intuitively: graph theory algorithms can get very complicated because you work with very large but finite objects, so combinational algorithms enter the party.

4mo ago

The Four Color Theorem with Linearly Many Reducible Configurations and Near-Linear Time Coloring

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 4mo ago

Because sometimes there is no intuitive visualization, or the visualization may even be deceptive. E.g. ... the Coloring Problem is not literally about colors. It's not even about maps. It's about the abstraction itself. It's about the math.