April 2012
3 posts
Easter hypothesis
I think it’s a Pagan ritual in celebration of the spring equinox which got acculturated by the “Transition Tiger Team Subcommittee” of the missionaries to introduce the concept of rebirth. Chocolate was added to appeal to the tastes of children as an incentive to participate in the Sunday service. They re-applied the #kidsDoAnythingForCandy lesson learned by #theHaloweenTeam a...
December 2011
1 post
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#occupyChristmas
So, I’ve got a bone to pick with Santa Clause. Here’s my case: as a leader, he fostered a culture of exclusion and turned a blind eye to acts of meanness and emotional cruelty from his crew. Only when it benefitted him was any misfit personal attribute welcomed (and subsequently exploited). I recognize that forgiveness is a tenet of the season, so I want to do so while also keeping...
November 2011
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August 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
3 posts
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June 2011
10 posts
xkcd: Hofstadter →
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Watch#believeThat
May 2011
7 posts
2 tags
Post-modern comic artist. On exhibit now
footprintsInTheSpam (@footprintInSpam) 5/29/11 10:45 AM Please follow @flatlandMILF When you do, you’ll have stories to tell your grandkids.
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March 2011
5 posts
Rocky IV soundtrack in XML formalism
<rockyIVSoundtrack> <ourSoul> <layer1> <layer2> <layer3> <ember intensity=”quiet”/> </layer3> </layer2> </layer1> </ourSoul> <heart status=”burning”> <quest target=”answers”/> <thirst quenchable=”no”/> </heart> <heart...
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
8 posts
“I heightened flatland to cosmic levels:
break down your ambition to component...”
– blogauthor
December 2010
11 posts
my conversation with a psychology machine
http: //chayden.net/eliza/Eliza.html
>> Hello.
How do you do. Please state your problem.
>> I feel that my colleagues do not value my contribution to the team goal
Your colleagues do not value your contribution to the team goal ?
>> correct
Does that have anything to do with the fact that your colleagues do not value your contribution to the team goal ?
>> yes
You seem to be quite positive.
>> I am
Is it because you are that you came to me ?
>> yes
You are sure.
>> yes
I see.
>>
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
>> what is your diagnosis of the situation?
Why do you ask ?
>> because I came to you expecting that diagnosis, but you stopped asking me questions and never delivered that diagnosis
Is that the real reason ?
>> it is a real reason, but it doesn't have primacy. My primary reason for coming to you is that I feel that my colleagues do not value my contribution to the team goal
Why do you say your primary reason for coming to I is that you feel that your colleagues do not value your contribution to the team goal ?
>> When I describe to them how I listened to their problem, and then took action to make that problem go away they say that it wasn't a big problem in the first place
Does that question interest you ?
>> It does interest me - how a person can not deliver on their objective, then attribute that to a problem, and then have someone else solve that problem, and then declare that it wasn't really a problem in the first place
What is it you really wanted to know ?
>> If this is dysfunction
Do you think its likely that this is dysfunction ?
>> Yes
I understand.
>> How does your understanding help make the dysfunction go away (thereby alleviating my agita and enabling me to experience reward)?
Does that suggest anything else which belongs to you ?
>> It suggests that I am seeking reward, and that reward seems to be elusive
How long have you been seeking reward ?
>> for a long time. I think that humans seeking reward is a Darwinian mechanism that enables progress
You say you think that humans seeking reward is a darwinian mechanism that enables progress ?
>> yes
You seem to be quite positive.
>> I am
Do you believe it is normal to be ?
>> yes
You are sure.
>> yes. By virtue of the fact that progress has happened and that progress is difficult and that people invest in that difficult work in exchange for some form of reward. This psychology machine is an artifact of such progress.
I see.
>> Ask me the next question in your diagnostic
Why are you concerned over my diagnostic ?
>> yes
I understand.
>> I would like for Aleksey to become smart enough to progress you
Perhaps in your fantasies we would like for aleksey to become smart enough to progress each other.
