glen wrote:
I can't tell if you're arguing against my point or with it. 8^D My
point was there is likely hidden information inside the Recursive
Self-Depravity process, information that is not yet encoded into the
model. For example, when a neurotic writer kneads and kneads, forever,
their manuscript. And that process only stops when they die. Then some
dork somewhere discovers and publishes it.
Apropos of Toole's Confederacy of Dunces
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces>, and Toole
himself? I guess he didn't knead unto death but possibly died as a
consequence of his over-kneading?
It may *seem* obvious that, say, porn, alcohol, or heroin addiction
are benefit-less costs.
Watching 500+ balloons launching and lazing over ABQ (on TV) today (we
faiiled to launch ourselves at O-Dark-Thirty to go watch in person)
lead me to reflect on the huge amount of latent talent, skill, effort,
resources first-worlders maintain (consume?) in what to many seems like
self-flagellating narcissistic self-indulgence. It converged, however
on my recent maunderings on reserved agency, optionality, and
provisional coherence, variations on possible/plausible/probable logics.
When the world goes to Hell in a Hamburger Basket (abruptly or in a long
slow spinout like what it feels like we are already in, unless we are in
the Donbas or Gaza City) it seems as if there might be huge latent
capacity/resources unlocked by the new affordance landscape convolved
with the competencies these seemingly wasteful/inane activities/hobbies
represent?
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