Mastema

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mastema 4 points 8 months ago

Solidly agree on all points.

[–] Mastema 1 points 8 months ago

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

[–] Mastema 11 points 8 months ago

He's right, though. The reversal DOES make the situation more uncomfortable...

[–] Mastema 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I generally like this idea, although I think calling it, "mentoring", might attach an unnecessary connotation. I'm also not sure what else you would call it, so that might just be my own bias talking. I'm interested in working out the logistics of using Shapley Values to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative company and want to work through some messy, real-world examples. If this sounds like fun, let me know and I'll sign up. Thanks for doing this!

[–] Mastema 2 points 9 months ago

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

[–] Mastema 2 points 9 months ago

I'm going to recommend, in addition to meditation, that you look into IFS Therapy. You can see an actual therapist about it, but you can also just read a book on the subject and do it yourself unless you have really deep trauma or addictions to deal with. The guy who invented it has several books, but I recommend Self Therapy by Jay Earley as it is based around working on your own and is basically like meditation with the purpose of resolving your inner issues. My ADHD brain has improved a ton since I started doing it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. This is my current Hyperfocus, so I'm already way down the rabbit hole on research. 😁

[–] Mastema 6 points 9 months ago

And a very happy Void-Scream to you as well!

[–] Mastema 0 points 9 months ago

That's nice! Relaxing! I dig it!

[–] Mastema 0 points 9 months ago

One Raga to a Disco Beat, by Glass Beams This is a cover of someone else's song, but I listened to this and immediately bought both of Glass Beams' albums.

[–] Mastema 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The ancient power was the equivalent of a futuristic computer virus. The other power that the computer virus attacked and destroyed essentially programmed Pham with the antivirus, but because human are so simple, it overwrote his personality and used him like a computer to destroy the virus entity. Pham was in a fugue state for so much of that last trip because his brain was doing stuff that human brains aren't really designed for. I forget if this word is actually used in the book, but I have heard the term, "god shattered", to describe this state. So Pham was programmed with the antivirus and sent off to stop it, which he did, but he was basically destroyed in the process.

[–] Mastema 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Regrettably, most of my mass is in a direction I would have to call, "down"...

(I don't understand it either, so I'll be self-deprecating!)

[–] Mastema 7 points 9 months ago

It irritates me so badly! All I want is a sporty hatchback to replace my BMW i3, since BMW has apparently decided that only sedans are valid vehicles and NOBODY is selling anything compelling in the US! My 2017, carbon fiber chassis, orca should not still be the pinnacle of small electric cars 7 years later!

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