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I may have been flattering myself here. There is no learning loop on the bounds.
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Note to people who want to replace me with a very small shell script: my core life algorithm is branch-and-bound. With GAN learning loop on the bounds. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_an
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This was apparently the weird bunnytrail I was on just before the pandemic. If pandemic hadn’t hit you all would have been treated to a disquisition on governing life algorithms. Funny how this hypothetical basically became real and it turned out “bake bread” was a common answer.
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Challenge: You have to develop an algorithm to run your life because you’re about to lose all higher executive function to a strange condition. Sketch out the basic logic you’d implement.
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Covid basically borked higher-level executive function for all humans and orgs. The highest intact level was probably analogous to the frontal cortex, the rule-based stuff. Prefrontal cortex was mostly shot. Infinite game crashed. Only finite game and below were working.
Interesting. ADHD is one condition that has never felt at all familiar to me from lists of symptoms. I guess the go brrr phase was the ADHD part?
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As a person with p strong ADHD, I’ve been surprised to see the broader world flounder in the low-exec-func lifestyle for a year. OOH, it’s been affirming to my own struggles (low-exec life is actually hard!) but also, OTOH: I’m v hopeful for people to regain their exec func, lol.
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I probably have the opposite condition of lazy stable focus. If I get interested in something I can stay on it indefinitely. That definitely broke last year. It’s still broken. It needs Starbucks time and lots of aimless, agenda-free walking around to sustain.
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Mediocrity was hard in 2020, which is why I didn’t update my mediocratopia blogchain since November 2019. And since it’s my only mode I basically didn’t do much. It was a time for excellence or nothing and I basically chose nothing.
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This joke was basically a prediction
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Let’s divide ourselves up into 2 teams. Team A, consisting of Kenny and Butters, will work on solving the problem. Team B, everybody else, will stay home drinking hot cocoa and watching cartoons until Team A gives us the all clear. That seems fair I think.
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I don’t have a surge mode. I have operated in surge mode maybe 10 days in my entire life. I think Covid response was all surge mode.
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Heh last year was all standardized testing. And predictably Asia beat the US.
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As a “bad homework/excellent test scores” guy for most of my life, I found that hyperfocus was my ally (standardized exams can look alot like games/DND campaigns). It’s the “deciding what to focus on” or “why tf am I doing this rn?” sensation that now feels like a broader trend
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So I guess whatever algorithm I’m running right now is on infinite loop. Unless some other weird big event counterprograms me in an unborking way. I guess big events just periodically flash me like an Arduino board.
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As a person with p strong ADHD, I’ve been surprised to see the broader world flounder in the low-exec-func lifestyle for a year. OOH, it’s been affirming to my own struggles (low-exec life is actually hard!) but also, OTOH: I’m v hopeful for people to regain their exec func, lol.
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