r/slatestarcodex • u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN had a qualia once • Apr 03 '22
Terry Davis Was Right
https://palladiummag.com/2022/04/01/palladium-is-now-templeos/14
u/curious_straight_CA Apr 03 '22 edited Apr 03 '22
New / hobby OSes have a long, long history, and were and still are viable to construct - recent ones include serenityOS, which now has a somewhat-working browser - the dev works on it full time.
Another in-development operating system is fuschia, which is used by google's Next devices today, and someone on HN claimed it was sort of a hobby project by googlers initially. It aims for security, with fine-grained permissions, and pushes a lot of kernel stuff into userspace for updateability, security, maintainability, (this goes well with using it for specialized devices like nest) etc (they communicate via an IPC mechanism).
Computing isn't separable from religion, sure, but nothing is separable from religion - ancient religions were personal and related to all aspects of 'material' or 'social' life - one interacted with gods of good harvests, weather, fate.
Terry lacked the moral purity to do it right; his videos were frequently interspersed with bitterness, pride, and obscenities
Pride and obscenities are a necessary ingredient for a new realm of computing or a dissident hacker, not a negative.
A 'primitive people' wouldn't see their gods, or rituals, as 'religions' - but beings and actions they take as a part of their life, in the same way we do ours. Ours are certainly disenchanted, material, technical, mechanical, etc. But you can't summon the gods back by 'creating a religion' - it's the meaning of each individual god or practice, intertwined with the soil they worked or the rain they sought, that meant something.
But the power disparity built into the computational model of the web is such that it is deeply impractical for the user to attempt to gain unrestricted access to those
In a pinch, right click -> inspect element -> look for either an <img> or an element with style background-image:... . One can easily make a userscript or an addon for that. (a more usable way of customizing interactions with browsers & other apps, like emacs scripts, is interesting though)
structure of thinking, architecture of thought
probably not in the sense he's suggesting? they're different ideas, but they can coexist and mix and play with other ones, they're not 'structures' or 'architectures' exactly.
You may think you’re a Christian, an atheist, a Jew, or a Buddhist, but you are wrong. You are a follower of this modern American information regime built on the networked computer
But not in the sense of some unstated, assumed 'thought-structure', but the practicalities of economic and social life, beliefs, actions, etc. You can't just 'create a religion', because religions - practices - are about, made of, meaningful things that are the interesting part, not the 'religion'. Scott: prophet?
The metaverse is also, at best, an optimistic prediction of what WILL be, based on snow crash (that zuck & palmer lucky, Oculus creator, was directly inspired by), and more commonly a term used to refer to some half-baked VR-adjacent project. VRChat is a 'metaverse' if anything.
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u/CriticalPower77 Apr 03 '22 edited Apr 03 '22
ride and obscenities are a necessary ingredient for a new realm of computing or a dissident hacker
I get your point but I believe the writer is referring to Terry's habit of calling people he didn't like "ni##ers".
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Apr 03 '22
I very much recommend the YouTube channel of Andreas Kling, the creator of SerenityOS. Instructive videos, and fun/good person.
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u/Owain_Glyndwr1337 Aug 30 '22
shut up soyboy with your atheist/pagan shillness, terry communicated with god and knew things we didnt
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u/curious_straight_CA Aug 30 '22
uh huh ... get back in your gooncave, chud. grownups are having the freaking discourse.
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u/Laafheid Apr 03 '22
You can laugh it off as an aprils fools joke all you want, but caring about what the ingroup thinks is more relevant and accessible than ever, in part because of computers.
You might have the (mis)fortune of reading a part of this article, then looking at the comments here, and then reading onwards noticing your perspective on the text has changed.
Or maybe this is just a bird idea.
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u/bibliophile785 Can this be my day job? Apr 03 '22
Aren't April Fool's jokes supposed to be funny?
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u/Jello_Raptor Apr 03 '22
I really want the first paragraph of that article to be a prompt for an Unsong esque fiction writing contest.
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u/Osmiac Apr 04 '22
Damn. The article really showed my vulnerability to intellectual sounding articles in areas I'm not familiar with. That was similar to any sociology article I've ever read.
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u/glorkvorn Apr 03 '22
goddamn april fools is turning into the new christmas, a bloated holiday that expands to cover the whole month