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  • Makehuman for generating models, unity preview renderer running as an MCP tool, language model reads page instructions for pose info, low frequency noise on pose bones to add micro movements.

    Bots have had a workaround for weeks now. Same with browser movement bot detection, just train a behavioural cloning model on human mouse movements, and use that to create mouse trajectories instead of directly moving the cursor to the target position.












  • If you want more nuance, you need more dimensions to display them. The compass is basically taking two principal components of something with arbitrarily high dimensionality, in order to flatten this multidimensional conceptual ‘political ideology’ position to a plane .

    The easiest way is to add planes with axes that are orthogonal to the left/right auth/anarcho axes, or alternatively you can decompose left/right and auth/anarcho into their own 2d components.

    It’s not the better model; it’s the framework to build a better model. My initial ideas are using a second plane with enviro/industrial and tech/primitivist as a secondary plane. They aren’t completely orthogonal to the main axes, but should be different enough to get new decision boundaries.


  • It’s the weak point of the analogy, surface gravity waves like you’d get in a shallow lake do have nonlinear behaviour though.

    Maybe a more accurate description would be to describe the wavespeed of the medium having tiny variations that cause extremely small, close range kinks where the wavefront crosses past itself, relating speed through time vs speed through space as the radial and tangential propagation of the wavefront. But that’s a less clean analogy, and the lake ripple is still good for describing how an entire universe can appear to be in the middle no matter where you look, despite originating from (suspectedly) a singular point.


  • If you follow an integrated information theory derivation, consciousness is emergent from integrating and partitioning information, and with no immaterial soul the possible capability of awareness remains, even if not directly comparable to our own.

    Give that brain some morphine as a treat to be on the safe side, most brains find that one relaxing.


  • A drop of water falls in an endless, still lake. The ripple spreads out, leaving a circular wave spreading out endlessly. Tiny disturbances create their own ripples; one side travelling with the main ripple, causing wonderful interactions in the wavefront; but the main ripple grows faster than these disturbances spread across it.

    The beings of the ripple look across the main ripple, seeing the disturbances as their interactions propagate across the main ripple. Looking back far enough to the earliest disturbances, one thing becomes clear; the entire ripple comes from one drop, and most of the ripple is moving away faster than a disturbance can propagate.

    An expanding universe where every point of the universe started from the middle is pretty easy to conceptualize with the right analogy.