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  • 1.automate Gun Turrets, bullets, and walls for early game defense

    1. You should have Researched cars and grenades by the time the bugs start getting annoying. Do some drive-bys on the smallest nest around you throw a bunch of grenades while in the car. Savescum often.

    2. Research and mass produce green modules and stuff them into everything. They cut pollution down to nothing. Biggest pollutors are mining outpost, oil pumps, oil refineries.

    3. While in fullscreen map hit alt to see red pollution cloud and preemptively target nest that are gonna be a problem

    4. Also begin looking for local geographic choke points see if you can wall two cliffs together for example. Put sattalites everywhere.

    5. By the time nest get big enough hit and run grenade tactics no longer work you should have tanks and advanced red bullet ammo. Starting out you’ll want explosive tank shells because you don’t have any aiming skills. When you get comfy switch to precision rounds. Target worms then nest.

    6. By this point you should have enough resources and means to chart your continent and find cliffs and water body boundaries. Look for choke points and lay down walls + gun turrets across the continent. Robots are helpful.



  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldcat
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    9 days ago

    If we’re talking about the traditional definition its about the viral spreading of concepts and ideas through cultural or generational traditions.

    If we’re talking about the modern internet context it tends to be a picture or a visual reference that either attempts to get a joke across or spread a political message through satire. I consider pictures of cats edited to do human things a kind of funny picture and so I interpret it as a meme. Does that satisfy you?



  • Look I’m not proud of it but I did what I had to survive. I swear I switched to clean energy, stuffed green productivity chips in everything, and stopped my territory expansion after the continent was secured. That’s more consideration than they deserve if I’m honest they’re a bunch of savage bugs that probably don’t even have a hive mind let alone sentience.



  • IMO A big problem for hard problem of conciousness is that it can’t be tackled with logic or philosophy or science. Its gotta be experienced first hand. Whatever abstraction that the words conciousness, qualia, soul, or awareness attempts to point to is beyond our ability to fully represent conceptually. Its a first person experiential state. Theres a difference between being and representing. We can easily experience it, but we cannot easily represent its experience conceptually.

    Fortunately solving the hard problem is actually quite easy. You take 12g of magic mushrooms and wander into a forest. You have to meditate and expand your “conciousness” to experience new meta cognitive states. This is how you actually grow an understanding even if its hard to describe with words. No technical or philosophy paper could ever hope to encapsulate experience of being. Most academic nerds dont have the guts to take a heroic dose and write a formal report about it after.

    The second problem stems back to linguistic representability. Some word-concept pairings are fuzzy constellations of loosely related half meanings instead of precice pinpoint definitions.

    For example “what is the nature of a soul” is a meaningless question because the concept of a soul has no stable definition or meaning. Its a roarshack word that reflects your own theological, cultural, and philosophical biases.

    Same with conciousness, what does it even mean to be conscious or aware. How do you define these things without assuming them or creating definition loops where conciousness is the soul and the soul is awareness and awareness is consciousness

    If your a theologian or a philosopher and you just want to have the umpteenth discussion on the nature of experience that goes nowhere and breaks no new ground that’s fine. For the engineers, scientist , and math nerds we care about deriving useful new questions that actually lead to new places so the soft question is where we apply cognitive work.

    If we want to progress the soft question as modern philosophy forward we need to do away with loose nothingburger words that exist to justify their own definition. Ground descriptions in physics and computation and cutting edge mathematics.

    "Do continuously iterating biological neural networks have the capability to model a meta-representation of themselves within their activation atlas? What kind of information must go into such an encoding for successful self-modeling representation? (Sentience and self-reflection)

    If so, does this self modeling have computational optimization scaling principles and resolution limits based on information-theoretic laws like beckensteins bound and lauderes principle?

    (Are there limits to how much a person can know about themselves, or how many total concepts can fit in their head, or how much of a first person experience can be encoded as memory and recalled later tied to things like Gödel’s incompleteness theorem or physical information-theoretic boundaries?)

    Are there informational structures encoded into the neural networks activation atlas during sensory input that cannot be represented within subsystems like classical computers or even modern quantum computers due to representation capacity limits for the systems we can create?

    (Is qualia a complex process of experiencing the encoding first person perspective input and its too computationally expensive to fully save to memory storage?)


  • I enjoy the concepts and structures of mathematics. Fractal geometry, holomorphic dynamics, computational theory, uncertainty principles and all that are fascinating as hell. Discrete systems dancing with continuous integrals at process limits.

    I DO NOT ENJOY working with math. Specifically I cant read complex equations. I don’t have an attention disorder but I swear the moment I try reading anything that looks like this I get overloaded and nope out. If it aint highschool algebra with PEMDAS I cant do it. If you put a bullet to my head and pinned my survival on properly solving a quadratic equation I’d just tell you to shoot me.

    The concepts are cool once you can get past the notation to understand the ontology of whats trying to be conveyed. The actual expanded out notations and trying to do work with them is a fuckin nightmare.

    Also since im ranting can I just say, across STEM the biggest problem is the naming convention. Math and science would be at least 60% more accessable if we went back and renamed all theorems, hypothesis, proofs, to be what they are about instead of just shouting out the guy who discovered it. “eulers identity” doesnt mean a fucking thing. Neither does scrodingers equations or the riemann hypothesis or turing machines. THESE ARE NOT ACCESSABLE NAMES THEY CONVEY NOTHING INTRINSICALLY BESIDES SOME DEAD GUYS LAST NAME. GET SOME PROGRAMMERS WHO KNOW HOW TO ACTUALLY DECLARE HUMAN READABLE STRINGS FOR YOUR FUCKING ABSTRACTION OBJECTS.


  • I had no idea how to have acceptable dialoge with this person anymore

    Thats because you donta person says something irrevokably cruel and personally insulting you don’t attempt to have acceptable dialogue. They’ve chosen bad blood and war by attempting to step on your self worth. Attempting to sweep under the rug with forgive and forget merely breeds further open contempt.

    Stepparents , real parents, friends or even your husband themselves, you don’t take that bullshit from anyone.

    Dont try to be civil or win her over. Understand its very likely she will dislike you and attempt to do the girl psychological warfare bs plays with you like saying your tits are small not because of anything you personally did but what you represent in her mind. You aren’t a full person character to them, your a shadowy outline for them to try and fail to box into their little reference frame. A side character in their little life d4ama to project impossible expectations and personal problems onto.

    If it were me I would have gotten petty and reflective with the insults and called her a cunt ass bitch with dried up milkers and asked her how she was enjoying menopause. My parents are always telling me I need to remain civil and maintain relationships with extended family for whatever reason. I’m always telling them that a majority of people are self absorbed unabstracting parasytes that havent earned my tender consideration. A majority of primates only respect/respond to dominance and social power.

    Step up and put people in their place. Tell them brutal truth and rip their pathetic monkey egos to shreds. Identify their traumas and failures and weaponixe that shit if needed in retaliation… Fuck the stupid talking apes and their social warfare games, tell them how it is and maintain gleeful indifference as they howl about how calling them out hurts their feelings




  • Less danger than OPsec nerds hype up but enough of a concern you want at least a reverse proxy. The new FOSS replacement for cloudflare on the block is Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis, while Im not the biggest fan of seeing chibi anime funkopop girl thing wag its finger at me for a second or two as it test connection, I cannot deny the results seem effective enough that all the cool kids on the FOSS circle all are switching to it over cloudflare.

    I just learned how to get my first website and domain and stuff setup locally this summer so theres some network admin stuff im still figuring out. I don’t have any complex scripting or php or whatever so all the bots that try scanning for admin pages are never going to hit anything it just pollutes the logs. People are all nuts about scraping bots in current year but when I was a kid allowing your sites to be indexed and crawled was what let people discover it through engines, I don’t care if botnets scan through my permissively licensed public writing.



  • Its always been my impression that Lemmy appeals towards politically charged young adults in their 20s and 30s. Theres something about the anti-authoritarian stance of fediverse that appeals to the rebelious angsty liberal arts types. Keep in mind though these are just the most vocal whos opinions youll see most im sure theres plenty of people with good parent relations who just scrolled past without commenting. These types are old enough to realize the flaws of their upbringing and cook it into their woe-is-me victim complex but not yet experienced enough with life to grow past, let it go, and forgive despite. Really I do think having some older kids in your life helps put a perspective on the other side of things. Parenting isn’t easy especially when your life isn’t going so well to begin with.




  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzCovers the bases
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    22 days ago

    When I was a teen some of the girls I knew had such big lady boners for the main cast of supernatural ad sherlock Holmes. I never understood why.

    Going by the Venn diagram, ive now come to the conclusion that theres something about homoerotic baiting between two grizzled depressed dad archetypes that really fires the neurons and gets the hormones going for some ladies.