“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
Monday, January 12, 2026
Circling the Wagons Around Immigrants and/ or Israel
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM My "reality" always contains and is mediated by elements of the "Imaginary" AND the "Symbolic" and is mediated by my Jouissance.
Whatever. Yawn. Who said that it not compatible? DEMN Propaganda?
Sometime truth and DEMN Propaganda overlap. We try to keep it out of the sciences, but recent NSF grant-makers had let them in to promote "DEI" in scientific research.
Correction. You just oblivious about when it used on your behalf.
Do you have no cellphone??? Do you not use PC? Or know how and use old ones, because inmodern ones survialance appliances... just everywhere. Bu-ga-gah!
I have no cell phone. I use my computer when I'm at home (stable GPS coordinates). And you can't escape modern surveillance. If they need GPS, that's on them.
Prices don't all take monetary forms. Like in the difference between "Low" and High" Arts. Quantity ($) and Quality can be related, but aren't necessarily directly attributable to "value received". The necessaries (air/water) are usually "free".
While modern finance categorizes commodities into "hard" (metals, energy) and "soft" (agricultural), Karl Marx focused less on these physical groupings and more on the social essence of the commodity itself: something produced for exchange, possessing both a use-value (satisfies needs) and an exchange-value (value in trade), and representing crystallized social labor. His categories related to the forms of value (simple, expanded, general, money-form) and the circuits of capital (M-C-M', C-M-C') rather than types of goods.
No, that's a simple matching of technologies to need/usage, not some ideal perfection. There's a saying amongst bureaucrats like me, "Close enough for Government work". At NASA, every generation of instrumentation strived towards an order of magnitude (>10x) factor of improvement in performance. Not perfection on the Planck scale.
The problem with new tech is that we are frequently unaware of their limitations and the consequences of employing them. The same is less true for "Lindy approved" techs.
The effects of AI on future human cognition is an unknown. Will we evolve into the Eloi and Morlock's (HG Wells, "The Time Machine")? Only time can tell.
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM "Everything is Quanta/ Quantum.... until It's Qualia. ;)
from Google AI:
"Quantity leads to quality" means that producing a large volume of work, experimenting, and making mistakes is often the most effective path to mastering a skill and achieving high-quality results, as seen in the famous ceramics parable where the group focused on quantity produced better pots than the one focused on perfection, illustrating that practice and iteration refine skill. It counters perfectionism by emphasizing action, learning from failures, and building experience through consistent output, turning many average attempts into eventual excellence.
"Truthes of the past grow incorrect and even outdated, with time"
And that, that you used modern "AI" to formulate it, and notscribbing it out from ancient scroll onto "fresh" palimpsest is dire confirmation of truthfullness of my this words. ;-p
'Cause, equally -- if it'll totally predictable OR totally UNpredictable -- there'd be no freaking reason to have brain (that's why Derpy and Lessy areSA idiotic -- cause they are bent on DEMN propaganda of "total predictability"... Yawn.
//Karl Marx focused less on these physical groupings and more on the social essence of the commodity itself: something produced for exchange, possessing both a use-value (satisfies needs) and an exchange-value (value in trade), and representing crystallized social labor.
That last. "Labour values". Is UTTER BS.
As we know in retrospective.
But that is USUAL THING to know about Wisdom of the Past.
"Ancient wisdoms prone to grow proven incorrect... or even outdated... with time"(c)
Marx totally blew it on the nature of "Intangible Assets"... which constitute 95% of a modern start-up's value...
from Google AI: The statement "intangible assets defy valuation" reflects the significant challenges in quantifying non-physical assets like brand, goodwill, software, or R&D, which lack direct market comparables and standardized accounting treatment, creating a gap between financial statements and true business worth, though valuation methods (income, market, cost approaches) exist, they rely heavily on assumptions and subjectivity, especially for internally generated intangibles.
And that is THE bona fide reason behind that "Ancient wisdoms prone to grow proven incorrect... or even outdated... with time"(c) -- it's too damn hard to be a prophet, to imagine things unseen.(that's why I value Lem so much)
//I like that name... "Technology Gardening". It sounds a lot like what USCIA was doing with USAID... "Capacity Building".
Yawn. That's the core meaning behind "words just labels". They can be just a crafty decoration. Or... reveal core meaning.
That "capacity debuilding" -- decoration.
My "gardening" -- based on core trait of my New Techs proposal.
Same as "an Ovo" -- how else you'd be calling a thing that contain all needed for creation.. and just need some simple envirnment -- like an egg needs just a some stable flow of heat... from a hen. Or just an artifical hen -- thermostate.
It's got to start somewhere. Now simulate. Then test partial techs in relevant environments. then test full systems in simulated and then relevant environments.
No, Musk had a need... to build and deploy a Starlink constellation (thousands of LEO satellites). A very anti-fragile concept... where numbers and redundancies minimize cost.
Basic physics parameters... Seasonal Pressures, Temperatures, GPS coordinates, gas/ liquids/ atmospheres/ chemicals/ minerals present. ... but only for some special cases, like in the presence of underwater thermal vents (a good place for locating a heat engine)... places "scouted out" in advance?
ReplyDelete//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
My "reality" always contains and is mediated by elements of the "Imaginary" AND the "Symbolic" and is mediated by my Jouissance.
Whatever.
Yawn.
Who said that it not compatible? DEMN Propaganda?
How big is the category's cognitive light cone (operational scale)?
Delete???
DeleteSometime truth and DEMN Propaganda overlap. We try to keep it out of the sciences, but recent NSF grant-makers had let them in to promote "DEI" in scientific research.
Delete//Sometime truth and DEMN Propaganda overlap
DeleteBut. Maaaan! That. IS THE Nature. Of thing called Propaganda.
INTERMIXING *TRUTH* WITH A *LIE*. IN TRY TO DEMINISH IT.
YAAAAAWN.
I'm not sure that "slowing down the pace of scientific progress" is a pressing problem, although people like Peter Thiel might disagree...
DeleteSAME as with "Climate Change".
DeleteSpeeding up climate changes -- is not a problem. Per se.
That we have NO SKIN IN THAT GAME. Means -- we have freakingly NO means how to control em, or even just grok em -- IS!!!
//I don't use GPS. I simply read maps.
ReplyDeleteCorrection. You just oblivious about when it used on your behalf.
Do you have no cellphone???
Do you not use PC? Or know how and use old ones, because inmodern ones survialance appliances... just everywhere. Bu-ga-gah!
I have no cell phone. I use my computer when I'm at home (stable GPS coordinates). And you can't escape modern surveillance. If they need GPS, that's on them.
DeleteIt included into PRICES of goods you'll inevitably buy.
DeleteYawn.
(and that without mentioning any intrinSICK burdain from all kinds of pollution)
//I have no cell phone.
DeleteI tried to avoid it too... but was overforced. (remember my whining about "crappy mobile inet connection"?)
Prices don't all take monetary forms. Like in the difference between "Low" and High" Arts. Quantity ($) and Quality can be related, but aren't necessarily directly attributable to "value received". The necessaries (air/water) are usually "free".
DeleteWhile modern finance categorizes commodities into "hard" (metals, energy) and "soft" (agricultural), Karl Marx focused less on these physical groupings and more on the social essence of the commodity itself: something produced for exchange, possessing both a use-value (satisfies needs) and an exchange-value (value in trade), and representing crystallized social labor. His categories related to the forms of value (simple, expanded, general, money-form) and the circuits of capital (M-C-M', C-M-C') rather than types of goods.
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
ReplyDelete...and yes, the Antikythera Mechanism works fine for me.
-William James
"Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it"
...but only the REAL way can compute it! @@
That is dogmas talking with your mouth.
Yawn.
No, that's a simple matching of technologies to need/usage, not some ideal perfection. There's a saying amongst bureaucrats like me, "Close enough for Government work". At NASA, every generation of instrumentation strived towards an order of magnitude (>10x) factor of improvement in performance. Not perfection on the Planck scale.
DeleteIt do not free you from biases toward New Techs.
DeleteNeither I are free of em too...
Thinking "out of the box" are damn hard.
DeleteThe problem with new tech is that we are frequently unaware of their limitations and the consequences of employing them. The same is less true for "Lindy approved" techs.
DeleteThe effects of AI on future human cognition is an unknown. Will we evolve into the Eloi and Morlock's (HG Wells, "The Time Machine")? Only time can tell.
That's why I'm FOR the Tofflerian Prosumer. So we don't evolve into Producer (Morlock) and Consumer (Eloi) classes.
Delete...to keep "skin in the games" for BOTH Morlock's and Eloi.
Delete//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
ReplyDelete"Everything is Quanta/ Quantum.... until It's Qualia. ;)
from Google AI:
"Quantity leads to quality" means that producing a large volume of work, experimenting, and making mistakes is often the most effective path to mastering a skill and achieving high-quality results, as seen in the famous ceramics parable where the group focused on quantity produced better pots than the one focused on perfection, illustrating that practice and iteration refine skill. It counters perfectionism by emphasizing action, learning from failures, and building experience through consistent output, turning many average attempts into eventual excellence.
"Truthes of the past grow incorrect and even outdated, with time"
And that, that you used modern "AI" to formulate it, and notscribbing it out from ancient scroll onto "fresh" palimpsest is dire confirmation of truthfullness of my this words. ;-p
It also reflects the teaching of Pythagoras. "All is number." "Numbers Rule the Universe"
DeleteNaaah.
DeleteI'm technologist. Means positivist and physic. Not "all are numbers" idealist.
Yawn.
Do you use the Pythagorean Theorem?
DeleteSpatial intelligence (human cognitive specialty) is very compatible with such forms of idealism.
DeleteI am not stupid. I admit that Idealism is INEVITABLE.
DeleteI had said it -- because our brain is Idealism-Based Device. By Design.
But. I treat it Pragmatically. In Lem's sense.
//The problem with new tech is that we are frequently unaware
ReplyDeleteFrequently??? %))))
ALWAYS!!!
Because? Law of Unpredictable Consequences(c)
You'll admit that SOME consequences ARE predictable?
Delete...so IMO, not always.
Sure... that's the reason why Evolution gave us brain. ;-p
Delete'Cause, equally -- if it'll totally predictable OR totally UNpredictable -- there'd be no freaking reason to have brain (that's why Derpy and Lessy areSA idiotic -- cause they are bent on DEMN propaganda of "total predictability"... Yawn.
DeletePythagoreans... they throw overboard the irrational proofs... Sq Rt of 2 calculations
Delete//Will we evolve into the Eloi and Morlock's (HG Wells, "The Time Machine")? Only time can tell.
ReplyDeleteLem already told. Yawn.
But. "There is no prophets in own country" effect. Yawn.
//...to keep "skin in the games" for BOTH Morlock's and Eloi.
ReplyDeleteYap. That's what my New Tech of Technology Gardening suits the best.
Yawn.
But. "There's NO prophets in own country"(tm)
I like that name... "Technology Gardening". It sounds a lot like what USCIA was doing with USAID... "Capacity Building".
Deletebtw - Elon's a South African. Peter Thiel/ Alex Karp are German-ish.
DeleteYou. Gotcha.
DeleteA "transcendental" perspective/ from the outside (not an emergent one/ from the inside). A 2nd order observation.
Delete...seeing yourself within another system.
DeleteDesein from In der Werlt Sein
Delete...maybe even from inside a different "Time" (Multi-temporal) (to account for utility within different cultural-historical factors).
Delete//Prices don't all take monetary forms.
ReplyDeleteBINGO!
Totally MY line.
//The necessaries (air/water) are usually "free".
ReplyDeleteYeah. Same as sweets for a children.
Only adults do know that all such "freebies" DO HAVE definite PRICE.
//Karl Marx focused less on these physical groupings and more on the social essence of the commodity itself: something produced for exchange, possessing both a use-value (satisfies needs) and an exchange-value (value in trade), and representing crystallized social labor.
ReplyDeleteThat last. "Labour values". Is UTTER BS.
As we know in retrospective.
But that is USUAL THING to know about Wisdom of the Past.
"Ancient wisdoms prone to grow proven incorrect... or even outdated... with time"(c)
Like epicycles. ;-p
And etc.
Marx totally blew it on the nature of "Intangible Assets"... which constitute 95% of a modern start-up's value...
Deletefrom Google AI: The statement "intangible assets defy valuation" reflects the significant challenges in quantifying non-physical assets like brand, goodwill, software, or R&D, which lack direct market comparables and standardized accounting treatment, creating a gap between financial statements and true business worth, though valuation methods (income, market, cost approaches) exist, they rely heavily on assumptions and subjectivity, especially for internally generated intangibles.
Labour only contributes ~5%. Intellectual Property (IP) is where its' at.
DeleteYou gotcha the caveat in Marx's conclusion right away!
DeleteWell, it doesn't mean that that Carl was just stooopid. It's just -- in his times role of IP was not so apparent...
And that is THE bona fide reason behind that
Delete"Ancient wisdoms prone to grow proven incorrect... or even outdated... with time"(c) -- it's too damn hard to be a prophet, to imagine things unseen.(that's why I value Lem so much)
Again, I believe in multi-cultural AND multi-temporal perspectives.
DeleteBtw. Tnx for thoughtful responses. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIs it possibly that you at last admitted me opponent worthy serious treating? ;-p
Ditto.
Delete...though not so much "opponent" but more so, as I would hope, "colleague".
DeleteCheers!
Delete//I like that name... "Technology Gardening". It sounds a lot like what USCIA was doing with USAID... "Capacity Building".
ReplyDeleteYawn. That's the core meaning behind "words just labels". They can be just a crafty decoration. Or... reveal core meaning.
That "capacity debuilding" -- decoration.
My "gardening" -- based on core trait of my New Techs proposal.
Same as "an Ovo" -- how else you'd be calling a thing that contain all needed for creation.. and just need some simple envirnment -- like an egg needs just a some stable flow of heat... from a hen. Or just an artifical hen -- thermostate.
Activated after encountering the necessary stable or variant environment(s)... like a virus. ;)
DeleteYap!
Delete:P
DeleteBut. There's no free lunch. To achieve such level of invenuity... time, and quite complex and ubiquitous environment needed.
DeleteThat's why "gardening".
Because only in garden one can grow some unique and special plants, hibreeds.
Gardens... or factories. ; (star factories... galaxy factories (central black holes)
DeleteEverything is quanta (number, after all. ;)
DeleteSo what would your "Goldilocks" zone be like? Phase 0 (Ocean/lake)... near a thermal vent?
DeleteA geyser hot pool?
DeletePressure (deep) or surface (atmospheric)? Both (staged development)?
DeleteSeems each of your "phases" might require different/ novel techs
DeleteNASA begins their design with a mission concept which begins with the operating environments... (ie Venus) and "launch loads" from selected rocket.
DeleteWhere will you launch your Ovo, and where will it go?
Delete//Gardens... or factories. ; (star factories... galaxy factories (central black holes)
ReplyDeleteCraftsmen forges... yawn.
Of course, we will not know HOW it would look and feel.
'Cause. "Thinking "out of the box" are damn hard."(tm)
Sounds like you need to ID the gardens/ factories that can (and perhaps will) be used. An compiled Oceanographic environmental survey...
DeleteYou can then model/ simulate a mission.
DeleteKinda...
DeletePosition a Stirling Engine to take advantage of an ocean vent delta T with surrounding cold water...
DeleteWords, words, words.
DeleteOn words... it all working.
It's got to start somewhere. Now simulate. Then test partial techs in relevant environments. then test full systems in simulated and then relevant environments.
DeleteInside EXISTING ecosystem.
DeleteYawn.
Being in the World... Dasein. In der welt sein
DeleteAcquire capability A in Ecosystem A, and capability B in Ecosystem B... and Assemble (the whole is greater than the sum of its' parts).
Delete//Where will you launch your Ovo, and where will it go?
ReplyDeleteIsn't answer damn too obvious -- wherever I want it.
In accordance with my "will to power".
Yawn.
Too non-specific.
DeleteHeh...
Delete//NASA begins their design with a mission concept which begins with the operating environments... (ie Venus) and "launch loads" from selected rocket.
ReplyDeleteYep.
Outdated approach.
Leapfrogged by Musk.
Yawn.
No, Musk had a need... to build and deploy a Starlink constellation (thousands of LEO satellites). A very anti-fragile concept... where numbers and redundancies minimize cost.
DeleteYeah. That is the "secret souse" behind success...
DeleteReason why Edison succeded. And Tesla not.
Brathers Wright. And not Lielental.
And etc, etc.
Brothers Wright also invented the wind-tunnel, with which to "environmentally" test their wing-warping design concepts.
DeleteNASA "test as you fly"... build - test- build -test "Test Readiness Levels" (TRLs)
DeleteYep.
DeleteOutdated approach.
Yawn.
Does human life depend upon success? Class A vs D missions. Risk of "failure"...
DeleteHumans as furrless apes? ;-p
DeletePretty much. It was that way from primordial times.
When very first emerged cell... have had it's first important "success" -- of eating "unsuccessfull" neighbour.
That's the fear... that they'll eat "us".
Delete//Seems each of your "phases" might require different/ novel techs
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what "technological revolution"(evo-lution?) is about?
Ovo-lution.
DeleteThe design of the evo's (environments) are fixed and don't change. The ovo must change to take advantage of them.
Delete"Position" (location) if nothing else
Delete//The design of the evo's (environments) are fixed and don't change.
DeleteWho said?
Lets just say that the "range" of variations can be readily characterized and catelogued (not that they are "static" in an absolute sense).
DeleteCan it?
DeleteAnd how much intelligence it would need? ;-)
Basic physics parameters... Seasonal Pressures, Temperatures, GPS coordinates, gas/ liquids/ atmospheres/ chemicals/ minerals present. ... but only for some special cases, like in the presence of underwater thermal vents (a good place for locating a heat engine)... places "scouted out" in advance?
DeleteNaaah. You dunno what "ecosystem" means...
DeleteEver try and land a probe on Venus?
DeleteIf you don't know the pressure, temperature, and amount of Sulferic Acid on the surface, you're probe isn't going to last very long.
DeleteQuestion -- will that system of a systems will even WANT to dive back into gravity well...
DeleteWhat for? While all resources and energy is on the orbit. And there's plenty of em. And they freely available.
And Venus... can be at all dismantled. From orbit.
At first, robbed of it's gases. Then, after orbital bombarment. Robbed of crust.
And... who know what else ;-)
Phase 1?
Delete