Comments on: The Profiling Machine

By: "Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit

"Platforms", aka MMORPGs « The Tar Pit — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 10:08:50 +0000

[...] recall, I expect Iu Da, or The Profiling Machine: both pieces deal with such platforms, from their respective concrete and abstract perspectives. [...]

By: The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit

The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:26:38 +0000

[...] the second guy pops his head out of the crowd to talk... what do you think could happen? Well, the machine pops in for a course correction, what else the fuck could it do? If you're demoralized by the [...]

By: The Lost Tools of Learning, annotated « The Tar Pit

The Lost Tools of Learning, annotated « The Tar Pit — Sun, 07 May 2023 14:19:32 +0000

[...] machines, all the way from before ye olde Tubes to today's platforms, are merely cheap surrogates for systematized education or portions thereof. That they breed [...]

By: Nature and technology « The Tar Pit

Nature and technology « The Tar Pit — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:18:56 +0000

[...] to the sacred principles of their founding fathers? What do you think? Were the Netflixes and TikToks of the time satisfying enough for the good folks down there? and for how [...]

By: All roads lead to Rome; or, how and why Nature abhors singularities; or, some pitfalls of causality « The Tar Pit

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:15:43 +0000

[...] fashion, except unfortunately the whole thing works both ways: if you consistently spend your days netflixing, then at the end of it all there won't be much "you" [...]

By: The Platform « The Tar Pit

The Platform « The Tar Pit — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:44:40 +0000

[...] for the whys behind this act of dehumanization: why does the state collect taxes from you? why does TickTock show you some particular piece and not the other one? why does Google's machine, or for that matter [...]

By: Notes on Hofstadter's Coffeehouse Conversation « The Tar Pit

Notes on Hofstadter's Coffeehouse Conversation « The Tar Pit — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:27:31 +0000

[...] the interaction between humans and machines would not only make machines "more human", but also the other way around! I'll admit, I didn't realize this out for a long while either, until one fateful day when I had to [...]

By: The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit

The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:25:19 +0000

[...] and the what is as important as the analogy. Anyway, the system under scrutiny is an extension of The Profiling Machine. The input of this new system consists of particular states of DB, in particular of P, as per the [...]