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my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

Babe are you OK? You reblogged "even if you get worse".

I mean when you discover The Best Thing, surely your life has to become about optimizing for that, right? Surely you don't have a choice.

Optimal hack for the reward function. Nothing is better or ever could be, except maybe for certain stacked combos (we are trying to optimize for them as well). Like, 2.5ish years ago my life was totally reorganised to prioritise opportunities for immediate hedonistic returns rather than longitudinal life goals, and so I started polling for the best ways to achieve those, and here we are. Orbiting some kind of local maximum.

Overly greedy heuristic perhaps, and return highly variable at different sample times that are being ignored in favour of absolute maximum. But I guess we built it out so none of that seems too important. Neither does the long term stuff, it often feels, no idea how relevant any of it may turn out to be.

So, that is what is optimised for... In one way or another. Even moderation is just a tool to secure longer term sustainable access (I guess the heuristic isn't maximally greedy).

Of course, variety is a thing that most people also value. A favorite song on repeat does get boring. But, maybe I'm like the autistic folks who always place the same order at the restaurant, being the maximally enjoyable subconfiguration of their menu. Optimal, and a comforting routine. Consistent.

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How to want to change terminal goal send tweet

fluorescentbrains

this lab safety training module is sending me

fluorescentbrains

I feel like whoever wrote these questions was speaking from experience

iced-coffee-chronicles

turns out, that light at the end of the tunnel? huge fire

prokopetz

Look, I understand that you're going through some shit, and you know I'll always support you, but I just had to fight your shadow-self in the kitchen. Yeah, I was getting breakfast and the enfleshed eidolon of your existential alienation was shooting, I don't know, some sort of beam.

asthedeathoflight

When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw. You should call her "Butler" in your essays. Sometimes students call female writers by their first names unconsciously, but that's not acceptable. If you wouldnt call them William or Ernest you shouldn't call her Octavia.

And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.

sandersstudies

“This character’s portrayal is offensive!” And then you look inside and it’s somebody’s lived experience

sandersstudies

When a character speaks to you deeply and you identify with them and see all of human complexity unfolding between you and them and then all anybody online can tell you is that they’re Problematique. You people can’t handle more nuance than can be held in a Dixie cup.

inksplit

plaguedocboi

The Great Lakes should have their own very small species of whale

creepy-wheat

hhhrrrnnffgg,, STURGEON !

STURGEON !!

sugarfishsushi

Those pictures do not do them justice these fishies are humugajigajungous

‼️STURGEON‼️

@fishyfishyfishtimes

STUGGON!!!!!!!

My friend, are you in for a treat! The lake sturgeon, which is the sturgeon found in the Great Lakes, can grow to be two meters long and weigh 90 kilograms! It is the biggest fish found in the Great Lakes!!

But, see, the lake sturgeon isn’t the biggest sturgeon species. That would be the beluga sturgeon, which regularly grew to be four to six meters long before overfishing took a toll on their populations. Belugas are a lot younger on average nowadays — these fish can live to be over 100 years old — and seldom exceed three meters, but I mean, even that isn’t anything to scoff at. The very biggest beluga sturgeon ever caught was a jawdropping 7.2 meters long, and weighed 1 571 kilograms!! Other beluga sturgeons of such sizes have been caught too, and some unverified sources say that there has even been belugas that exceed 10 meters! They are the biggest freshwater fish in the world, and are up there among the biggest bony fishes in the world. That’s so big, it’s hard to even grasp or imagine. Seeing pictures of sturgeons puts it in a better perspective, I think. Here is a 800 kilogram sturgeon, a bit more than half of what the biggest sturgeon weighed:

Like, look at that. You see this?? That’s so fucking insane!!! Sturgeons never cease to amaze me with how… impossible they seem. These fish are like aquatic dragons or prehistoric beasts from days long gone, and in a way they are the latter! Sturgeons have been around as a group for over 160 million years, so they did indeed live in the age of the dinosaurs. Whenever I see pictures like this I can only wonder what the humans who first saw big sturgeons must’ve thought. I know what sturgeons are but I still have trouble grasping their gargantuan sizes, imagine seeing the dark form of a giant in the water and not having the faintest idea of what it is, or even that it's entirely harmless to humans.

Other sturgeon species are also very really big! The lesser-known kaluga isn’t that far behind at a maximum length of 5.6 meters and maximum weight of about a ton. Several white sturgeon that have exceeded three meters and even just shy of four meters and weighed over 400 kilograms have been caught, and the biggest, but unverified white sturgeon even caught was around six meters long and weighed 900 kilograms. The critically endangered Chinese sturgeon maxes out around five meters and 600 kilograms. All this to say, these old fishes are massive!!!

I get really rambly about fish, sturgeons especially ^^’ I just…. look!!! Look at them!! Isn’t that the most gorgeous beast you’ve ever seen? Don’t you wonder what life they have lived, what they’ve seen, heard, felt? If sturgeons could talk… they’re wonderful animals, and. Ahhh!!! Everyone needs to know about sturgeons!!!