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A universal claim is either universally true or universally false. Claims like ā€œthere is an omnipotent beingā€ or ā€œa spirit is woven into the fabric of natureā€ are universal claims, and whether you or me or anyone knows the truth of them doesn’t change that they are in fact either true or false universally.

Replying to Avatar Katie

Pretty much everything under the umbrella of spiritually, for one. Beliefs about what a family should look like. What someone believes is right for their children. What someone believes are appropriate boundaries or limitations for engagement with others. Most things in life aren’t black and white, and it’s ok if we don’t all have the same definitions/goals/beliefs. In fact, battling to push beliefs as universal ideals have created a significant amount of harm historically.

I think of ML models such as deep nets are a good metaphor for this, sometimes the weights converge in roughly the same spots every time if left to train long enough. Most of the time, they don’t - the data is too complex, or there are unknowns. The patterns it picks up are valid, but they’re a byproduct of their journey. They get stuck in local minima and sometimes it takes awhile to get out of that space, sometimes they never do. One model may be more ā€œrightā€ than another.. but only if we can agree on the metric that we use to assess that, which usually there is not a single one or it’s measuring the wrong thing, or our target variable is flawed. Especially when it comes to encoding, which is what humans are doing every day.

Most probability density functions are simplified estimates based on limited observations. You can use something like a KDE to more accurately model distributions, but they’re highly sensitive to the data they’ve observed. Universal truth is more rare than not.

Even gravity, which we had a mathematical equation for on earth, was proven to be only valid… on earth. And the ā€œtrueā€ model is more sophisticated when you looked outside of earth - which is when the theory of relativity was created. We are all estimating reality through our own observations and those that we collect from others. It’s unreasonable to assume we all have or should have identical encodings.

Ah, sure. A lot of variation based on circumstance etc. is perfectly reasonable. I imagine nearly everyone can agree on that. For me, it’s good to be married to my wife but obviously that specifically is not true for every other human. Or at the very least it can’t be true for my wife who can’t marry herself. šŸ˜† anyway, the point remains that in a certain way ā€œbeing married to gregorius’ wife is good true for gregorius but not herā€

But you go too far if you use the word ā€œhumansā€ in a way that defines us from other things and yet do not think we have a shared nature about which a great many things are true (or false) for all of us.

Certainly many claims under the umbrella of spirituality are either true for all or false for all. It is illogical to hold that there is an omnipotent being for you but not for me. Or that ā€œwe are all one beingā€ is true for me but not you. These are universal claims to truth and there’s no way around it.

I’d consider adding some decent relays, including paid-only (many clients let you look at what relays a user has from their profile view) and then search hashtags or view the global feed.. see who others are following.

It really is like early Twitter. Be your own algo!

And I, you!

Your bananas are bananas! (In a good way) šŸ˜†

Going to have to try my hand at some simple banana art for my children one day. It’ll blow their minds if I give them customized art pieces for breakfast.

Have you posted any beginner tips anywhere?

Nice! God bless those Brazilian coffee growers making lives better around the globe šŸŒšŸŒŽ Florida šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

ā˜•ļø mm yes.

Enjoying some fine Brazilian medium roast right now. You?

Hah! Yeah. Can you imagine the names they didn’t go with? šŸ˜†

Even if critical mass doesn’t happen, the alternatives can provide sheltered places where the most private conversations can happen. Best friends. Husband and wife. Small teams. The existence and use of more private options in the marketplace also exerts pressure on the bigger players to be more private. That’s good!