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Since you got answered in downvotes I suspect the answer is "because people will switch languages on you"

The way it has been described to me is that if you always take the same route to work then your cognitive performance goes down. Staying curious and exploring the different routes is hard with relatively few waypoints but then you can zoom into more granular decisions (or out ... to the causes).

I just spent the night dancing. That's what I am mostly passionate about, discovering peer-to-peer and building trust. Hoping to see people participate in the future they want rather than suffering the present that they believe inevitable.

My project datalisp.is about making something useful.

So make the change. If your idea is strong and has gravity then people will follow (clearly the guy who is working hard with no reward is a FOSS developer ;)

Sorry I just read this exchange again and I totally misread your first comment. Tbh I'm a bit tilted at the moment. I'll take a break.

I believe it was kind but the tone does not get across the textification.

Glad to hear your justifications. They are more persuasive than the initial representation.

Thank you for engaging the constructive conversation.. now w.r.t. the power of financial interests, I think it is overestimated and easily shattered but we will just have to see what happens.

Preach yo! the medium is the message.

Sorry but you are full of shit. Centralization is not digitization. Centralization is relying on the use of coercion. It's a /central/ source of truth.

The identity system we've been stuck with since WW1 will finally be replaced with something decentralized and approaching fair thanks to digitization. What we're lacking is the software that gives individuals self sovereignty.

Degrading? Hah! man.. I've prioritized this problem over everything else in my life to the point where it has almost killed me and it has robbed me of everything.. when you are living on the street with 0 money in your pocket and you need to take a shit and the bathroom costs a coin to enter then what do you do? Cause I guess the difference between us and dogs is that you can poo straight into the plastic bag, no need for the intermediate step... Now if I would accept a job creating problems for regular people I'd have north of 100k for sitting in my chair and occasionally pressing a few buttons on my keyboard. But my refusal is absolute, the problem I am working on is important and if no one is willing to pay me for it then that is not my problem (yes it is but it is even more everyones elses problem than it is mine).

It is meant to solve the class of problems (in the computer science sense) that is cryptocurrency. This is because I want a name system where the definitions are given meaning relative to our economic system but where the economics within the network should converge on better incentives (which is why the approach should encompass the space of solutions; so we can find the points in that space which have good tradeoffs w.r.t. reality, our current central currency model systematically produces pollution and the motivation of datalisp is to eventually replace that system with a provably better one).

Am I affected? sr.ht/~ilmu/tala.saman ... I would appreciate knowing so I have time to move and since you (drew) are in this thread this is the expedient way to find out...

Rather than poor theory of mind what about good understanding of economics. The cost of absolutely clear context is too high to bear in many situation, it is often better to get the message across in whatever way works for those who are also in the know.. that way collaboration can cheapen the cost of constructing context. Of course if there is an off-the-shelf context available that you can refer to then there is no communication problem in the first place.

Yeah my grades were terrible but there was this one time that the teacher had to regrade everyone because I spotted something he hadn't seen himself and so my solution was better than the one everyone was repeating by rote memorization.

I always took the elite classes so that stung a lot for all those perfect students.

I don't give a fuck about grades, that system of assessments is cruel and inaccurate. It makes people stupid.

For me this is how I learned mathematics up until university. By just going unprepared to exams or doing extracurricular competitions and then "inventing the math" in the exam. In the case of competitions it was a bit more fun than exams which would still just be testing one or two ideas with a few examples but still it is in my opinion the more fun way to go about it. All these kids who were memorizing things, or studying the thing to death, a lot of them had trouble understanding what it was that they were doing.

Doubt. Attention is definitely important but as I keep saying; the value of your contribution is not based in opportunity cost but rather the dependency structure. If many people are providing you with attention then that is making you an important dependency in some sense but someone who maintains critical infrastructure is also worth alot, even if no one pays attention.

> I'm all about actually changing things.

Me too.

Where I am from there is a lot of bullying. All the way.. from small kids and up to the political representatives.

What I am doing (and I do not recommend this btw) is to exit every norm, so I do everything superficial poorly. I never edit anything I write, I just post the first draft, I don't cut my hair, I don't wear shoes, my clothes I've just found, I can't remember when I last bought clothes, I don't own a phone, I don't use any social media. Basically I set myself up for being bullied.

However! I also work on the most important problem; the idea being that the absurdity may wake people up to the idea that maybe it's better to help me (by editing things or contributing things) than it is to bully me when what they are doing is nonsense and what I am doing is necessary... The point is that if you cannot use violence then you've got to use humor and poke fun at the holes in the opponents argument.

How about building on solid ground for once? Datalisp.is the thing I keep posting here and it keeps getting overlooked but a solid foundation means longer lasting structures, just look at the 3-4-5 triangle; it still has a right angle.

Yeah I am not a fan of the login walls and all that either but there is a reason that we should try to use free and open source software and currently matrix is the option that is convincing enough to use.

Datalisp.is the web of trust / semantic web / whatever. It doesn't exist outside my head currently but it also exists in lots of other heads (at least bits and pieces) so I believe we should manifest it.

Why twitter man.. these questions are clearly important but there is a space to discuss them https://matrix.to/#/#datalisp:matrix.org

I think what you are describing is basically a good development environment.. where you can contribute your insight at depth of skill level appropriate for what you have to offer. From my point of view the path to the eventually persuasive version of this enviornment (i.e. where your friend and the CTO will accept to use it at their factory) starts by setting a common standard for data interchange between the tools. So partial work can be commented on and different options for completing it can be assessed relative to one another. I'm just one person but I am on my way and datalisp.is my starting point ... I am certain that the road goes by your place on the way to prosperity.

Love it =)

Join me in developing it at datalisp.is =)

Okay, that is a fair take, in the end it will depend on the student what kind of teaching methodology will work best but it is indeed unlikely that they will gain more from him trying to write a book than him sitting down with them.

Maybe with that as a baseline understanding the next interpretation of his question becomes: where can I find others in a similar predicament so that we can collaborate on building the book (as I gain experience coaching these juniors and need support network when I am flummoxed)?

Matrix is the place. It's FOSS. It works pretty decent. There are people there.

Here; join guix: https://matrix.to/#/#guix-space:matrix.org

Anyone out there know if there is a lisp space? It would be cool to have a huge one with all the lisp related channels.

You are ascribing an extreme personality to these people while criticizing the other extreme and I'm saying that the most reasonable thing is somewhere in the middle; just help the man with what he intends to do.

Oh those places still exist, for example I would trust #cl-school or the people on the guix matrix.

Hehe so how did they assess which answer should be canonical? how did they manage the different answers?

Because this is still what we should be doing but we have got to be a bit smarter about it than just appointing experts.

Yeah I think this is a great idea, the trick is: how do we organize the knowledge?

The reason I ask is because I am working on that question (heyho! :) so my answer is that we need a way to prioritize the information so that people don't drown in it and that there is a clear way forward. Making these assessments about information sources should be a foundation in how we communicate so that we don't get as bad a case of tragedy of the commons as other wikis have.

Downvote because it doesn't really have anything to do with what he is asking.

You claim that someone who does the job is valuable, nobody disagrees.

He asks; where can I find good explanations of concepts that I've found useful throughout my career and I want to pass on to my juniors?

See how this justifies a downvote?