“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
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Monday, January 12, 2026
Circling the Wagons Around Immigrants and/ or Israel
Who's NOT America First
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//-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?
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!
//-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"Truthes of the past grow incorrect and even outdated, with time"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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
//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.
'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.
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?
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.
99 comments:
//-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?
//I don't use GPS. I simply read maps.
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!
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA JewJanuary 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
...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.
//-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
How big is the category's cognitive light cone (operational scale)?
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.
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.
It also reflects the teaching of Pythagoras. "All is number." "Numbers Rule the Universe"
Naaah.
I'm technologist. Means positivist and physic. Not "all are numbers" idealist.
Yawn.
It do not free you from biases toward New Techs.
Neither I are free of em too...
Thinking "out of the box" are damn hard.
It included into PRICES of goods you'll inevitably buy.
Yawn.
(and that without mentioning any intrinSICK burdain from all kinds of pollution)
???
//I have no cell phone.
I tried to avoid it too... but was overforced. (remember my whining about "crappy mobile inet connection"?)
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.
//Sometime truth and DEMN Propaganda overlap
But. Maaaan! That. IS THE Nature. Of thing called Propaganda.
INTERMIXING *TRUTH* WITH A *LIE*. IN TRY TO DEMINISH IT.
YAAAAAWN.
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.
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.
I'm not sure that "slowing down the pace of scientific progress" is a pressing problem, although people like Peter Thiel might disagree...
Do you use the Pythagorean Theorem?
Spatial intelligence (human cognitive specialty) is very compatible with such forms of idealism.
That's why I'm FOR the Tofflerian Prosumer. So we don't evolve into Producer (Morlock) and Consumer (Eloi) classes.
...to keep "skin in the games" for BOTH Morlock's and Eloi.
I am not stupid. I admit that Idealism is INEVITABLE.
I 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
Frequently??? %))))
ALWAYS!!!
Because? Law of Unpredictable Consequences(c)
//Will we evolve into the Eloi and Morlock's (HG Wells, "The Time Machine")? Only time can tell.
Lem 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.
Yap. That's what my New Tech of Technology Gardening suits the best.
Yawn.
But. "There's NO prophets in own country"(tm)
//Prices don't all take monetary forms.
BINGO!
Totally MY line.
SAME as with "Climate Change".
Speeding 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!!!
//The necessaries (air/water) are usually "free".
Yeah. 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.
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)
Like epicycles. ;-p
And etc.
Btw. Tnx for thoughtful responses. ;-)
Is it possibly that you at last admitted me opponent worthy serious treating? ;-p
You'll admit that SOME consequences ARE predictable?
...so IMO, not always.
I like that name... "Technology Gardening". It sounds a lot like what USCIA was doing with USAID... "Capacity Building".
btw - Elon's a South African. Peter Thiel/ Alex Karp are German-ish.
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.
Labour only contributes ~5%. Intellectual Property (IP) is where its' at.
Ditto.
...though not so much "opponent" but more so, as I would hope, "colleague".
Cheers!
You gotcha the caveat in Marx's conclusion right away!
Well, 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
"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.
Sure... that's the reason why Evolution gave us brain. ;-p
You. Gotcha.
'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.
Activated after encountering the necessary stable or variant environment(s)... like a virus. ;)
Yap!
:P
But. There's no free lunch. To achieve such level of invenuity... time, and quite complex and ubiquitous environment needed.
That'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)
Everything is quanta (number, after all. ;)
So what would your "Goldilocks" zone be like? Phase 0 (Ocean/lake)... near a thermal vent?
A geyser hot pool?
Pressure (deep) or surface (atmospheric)? Both (staged development)?
Seems each of your "phases" might require different/ novel techs
NASA begins their design with a mission concept which begins with the operating environments... (ie Venus) and "launch loads" from selected rocket.
Where will you launch your Ovo, and where will it go?
//Gardens... or factories. ; (star factories... galaxy factories (central black holes)
Craftsmen forges... yawn.
Of course, we will not know HOW it would look and feel.
'Cause. "Thinking "out of the box" are damn hard."(tm)
//Where will you launch your Ovo, and where will it go?
Isn't answer damn too obvious -- wherever I want it.
In accordance with my "will to power".
Yawn.
//NASA begins their design with a mission concept which begins with the operating environments... (ie Venus) and "launch loads" from selected rocket.
Yep.
Outdated approach.
Leapfrogged by Musk.
Yawn.
//Seems each of your "phases" might require different/ novel techs
Isn't that what "technological revolution"(evo-lution?) is about?
Sounds like you need to ID the gardens/ factories that can (and perhaps will) be used. An compiled Oceanographic environmental survey...
You can then model/ simulate a mission.
Too non-specific.
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.
Ovo-lution.
The design of the evo's (environments) are fixed and don't change. The ovo must change to take advantage of them.
"Position" (location) if nothing else
//The design of the evo's (environments) are fixed and don't change.
Who said?
Yeah. That is the "secret souse" behind success...
Reason why Edison succeded. And Tesla not.
Brathers Wright. And not Lielental.
And etc, etc.
Heh...
Kinda...
Lets just say that the "range" of variations can be readily characterized and catelogued (not that they are "static" in an absolute sense).
Brothers Wright also invented the wind-tunnel, with which to "environmentally" test their wing-warping design concepts.
NASA "test as you fly"... build - test- build -test "Test Readiness Levels" (TRLs)
Position a Stirling Engine to take advantage of an ocean vent delta T with surrounding cold water...
Can it?
And how much intelligence it would need? ;-)
Yep.
Outdated approach.
Yawn.
Words, words, words.
On words... it all working.
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?
Naaah. You dunno what "ecosystem" means...
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.
Does human life depend upon success? Class A vs D missions. Risk of "failure"...
Ever try and land a probe on Venus?
If 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.
Question -- will that system of a systems will even WANT to dive back into gravity well...
What 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 ;-)
Humans as furrless apes? ;-p
Pretty much. It was that way from primordial times.
When very first emerged cell... have had it's first important "success" -- of eating "unsuccessfull" neighbour.
Inside EXISTING ecosystem.
Yawn.
Being in the World... Dasein. In der welt sein
Pythagoreans... they throw overboard the irrational proofs... Sq Rt of 2 calculations
A "transcendental" perspective/ from the outside (not an emergent one/ from the inside). A 2nd order observation.
...seeing yourself within another system.
Desein from In der Werlt Sein
...maybe even from inside a different "Time" (Multi-temporal) (to account for utility within different cultural-historical factors).
Again, I believe in multi-cultural AND multi-temporal perspectives.
Acquire capability A in Ecosystem A, and capability B in Ecosystem B... and Assemble (the whole is greater than the sum of its' parts).
That's the fear... that they'll eat "us".
Phase 1?
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