on Punishment

There is the Human Punishment, which sums up in "don't do it again". It programs into individuals a relationship between misbehaviour and loss. Its purpose is educational, and seeks to instil in the members of a society an accepted behaviour, so as stability to be maintained. So it actually revolves around the needs of the society and not the atom, it satisfies sociocentric needs. As for the capital punishment, it should not be considered as a punishment at all, and societies should avoid using it. The idea behind it is the education by example, however those who would mostly benefited by such an example are likely the stock that are lacking in empathy and alienate themselves from the troubles of others, so how can they learn, or even understand the lesson? In addition the Retaliation hue of the punishment is saturated to the extreme, and that only breeds unempathetic people in the society.

And then there is the Divine Punishment. It seems that god more anxious about the individual's soul, than the workings of the society -or the welfare of each of us for that matter-, contrives punishments that are extremely educational. And what can be more educational than a fitting punishment that precedes the "crime"? It's philosophy is "don't do it in the first place". So next time you ask "God what did I do to deserve this?" think of the possibility of that it's not what you did, but more what you will do...

• What did I learn Today: Warm beer really sucks.
• Status: Unchanged.

Hail Eris All Hail Discordia

Fnord

Fon't fead ofer feofle's flogs id if fnorderous...

Haif Fenis Off Fail Fnordifia

Don't Be Hypocrite

Money, Fame, Power, Stuff, all those things are not Evil...

It's the Reach for them that is, We live in a small planet with a Small warehouse of resources. To discriminate oneself's needs from the needs of rest and reach into this warehouse and steal for one's needs is obviously Evil.

So you may ask, shall there be no property? shall we own nothing? No food? home, clothes, no cars, live like Hermits to be Divine?

You may be Evil if you like and have all those things you need -nobody stops you there- or you may Not. But if you still want to have those things and also be Divine, then I fear there is only one way for you old chap:

You have to augment this Common warehouse, with enough resources for every single being on this planet and then bestow yourself with one of each of it, why not? you only deserve it...

So
As long as there are beings starving on earth, you may not eat and be Divine.
As long as there are beings deprived of their habitat on earth, you may not own a home and be Divine.
As long as there are beings without a car, you may not feel the thrill of speed and be Divine.

So do you see little monkey? Maybe you think twice before you tell things like: "I'm Not Evil, I'm just making money". Are you making a dollar for each of us?

• What else did I learn Today: It's not that there are no answers neither that we do not understand them, it's just that we do not accept them.
• Status:Unchanged.

Hail Gaia All Hail Amalthia

A Not So Artifictial Inteligence

This is insane; my computer is misbehaving... It goes off at the most interesting of times.

After 8 years of studying whatever there is to study on computer behaviour, I still have this irritating suspicion that computers mock us. Contrary to scientific logic my guts tell me: Computers are not governed by determinism;

I have come to believe, they are governed by an Imp! An Imp that if it senses the slightest misdemeanour from the user will actively and purposively try to escalate it to a near break down. A typical method employed is the "funny" method. It goes like that:

The user after an exhaustive exercise with the keyboard cames into realization of... "Oops I forgot to save it" and then another brain process goes... "Now if that happens again that will be funny". "that" refering to the last incident when the user forgot to save his work, and since I came to believe Imps to have a sense of humour -albeit not your sense of it- the "funny" thing happens, and it happens over and over and over again in a seemingly random fashion.

The typical user never realizes that he is like a puppet -driven to some sort of realization of some uncertainty principle- , because he never heard of determinism so as to extrapolate the existence of the Imp.

Oh yes the Imp is cautious, it never throws out errors that could betray its existence... It senses the specialist and adapts so that errors never appear paradoxial, merely random. In effect fooling everyone into believing that for every error there is a very rational explanation, and so secreting its existence.

What are the motives of the imp I cannot say... maybe it feeds of frustration? or maybe it punishes it in a twisted feedback manner.

My only advice to all you victims of computers is:

Positive thinking, you have to anticipate, expect the positive outcome in order for it to occur.

• What did I learn Today: 42.
• Status: The novelty of the universe decreased.

Fail Egis All Nail Distordia

16 μ-arch

This winter goes forever...

Shall I start building me an icesail and stock up resources for the humming ice age? Or the world will end by 2012 as Maya thought? So what if the earth switches poles, big deal we are not using the compass anymore... still chaos might be at play then... but it doesn't have to be all that bad. At most, a small change in the spin - so what if the day lasts longer? or a slight diversion of the axis - so what if summers are hotter? So what if mankind doesn't make it? who will be left to mourn? As it goes we will be the last to go... or not?... No I'm confident; we will outlive The Roach... ( someone will get Him sooner or later ).

Interesting times then…

We will ride the solar wind over the boiling seas, Auroras will crown the sun and moon! And after; the dreamy veil to cast the gray shadows and banish all colors to oblivion. Finally only a distant promise will remain. The sky in the eyes of the women, and the dancing sunrays in their head.

I’m curious as to what will come through the eye of the needle. I guess a regression will serve us well.

But in the mean time…

Why is it that there is no expression templated array with specialized operators optimized with simd extensions? Do I have to do everything mIself?

• What did I learn Today: Payback is a bitch.
• Status: The complexity of the universe increased.

Hail Eris All Hail Discordia