Electronic devices often have potentiometers that let you calibrate them with a screwdriver. If I were designing a human, I’d give it potentiometers, or a chemical equivalent, to make maintenance easier. So if you become insulin resistant, we can just open you up and turn a screw to reduce your resistance.

But the human body wasn’t designed to be repaired. It evolved to self-repair. Its systems are all based on the assumption of live adaptation to the situation, they’re self calibrating. We can’t manually adjust the calibration, it wasn’t made with those interfaces. Insulin receptors don’t have potentiometers.

So all of the hacks we’ve built to repair the human body are live fixes, the same as its own mechanisms. We adjust the insulin upwards to counter the resistance the same as the body does. Or reduce the rate at which blood sugar is released so less storage is needed. Those treatments need constant intervention because the human body is designed for constant adaptation.

Or we can just replace the part like we would with a machine that isn’t designed to be calibrated. Which is hard work.

Okay so how come the public sector doesn’t release cures for chronic disorders? Fred Banting discovered insulin at the University of Toronto, how come he didn’t discover a cure?

Valid, if it’s only states then I think it’s a good rule.

With banning country communities, I worry about the unintended effect on nations like a Palestine or the Haudenosaunee.

The Matrix protocol sends the channel name and icon from server to user client. It’s one extra field to add the ordinality. Two extra fields to add the category and ordinality. Adding your idea onto My idea so users can also reorder channels after the space moderator orders them would be ideal, but please don’t mistake My suggestion for the idea you came up with.

Your group arrangement should either be under user account preferences, or local client settings

I disagree. On Discord, channels are sorted and grouped by the server admins. This is good UX design because it gives every user on a server the same experience of the channels, and doesn’t require users to all replicate a bunch of the same work.

What you’re proposing as a solution is that every single user in a Matrix space is responsible for sorting and grouping all of the channels in the space that they’ve joined. That’s a ridiculous proposal because 99% of users aren’t going to go to that ridiculous effort, they’re going to be happy with the default settings. I think your idea is better than Matrix’s current setup, but it’s far worse than Discord from a usability perspective.

I think that means people use Discord for twelve completely different things

Are you saying you want the moderators of a Discord server to decide whether users on the server use dark mode or light mode?

HTML and CSS are also protocols. But I think a better analogy is RSS. RSS carries information about the order of posts, which clients can use however they want. I think that’s the right way to do this feature.

If it’s not supported by the protocol, how is an admin’s sorting of channels supposed to be pushed to the users in the server? It won’t work, it can’t be a client option. If it has to be a client option and it can’t, then it’s impossible.

I don’t like Matrix because you can’t sort and categorise channels in a server. The most recently messaged in channel is always at the top. That’s not the UX I want, I want to be able to put things in places with intentionality.

The realists tell the lie that their beliefs are objective truth. I enforce My beliefs on others, yet tell no lie.

I have a Bachelor of Science, and plenty of experience with the scientific method. And I don’t really feel like having a debate over epistemology, so I’ll give you a challenge instead: Find an empirical study on JSTOR which proves that an external world beyond our senses exists and we are not being misled by Descartes’ evil demon. I’m asserting science is built upon axioms, you’re asserting science is foundational. So use science to prove that the world beyond our senses exists, and you’re not allowed to use any other areas of philosophy! Just science. I expect the paper to be peer reviewed.

it is universally wrong under your philosophy to enforce a subjective paradigm upon someone else

Ah, but I do not believe it is universally wrong to enforce a subjective paradigm. I am quite happy to use violence to enforce My subjective views. For example, if someone throws a Sieg Heil on national television, I believe it is perfectly appropriate to hit them in the face with a baseball bat until they agree to believe in the subjective opinion that genocide is bad. Surely you agree that ethics have no objective truth behind them, yet I would endorse the use of violence to enforce a particular form of ethics that says we should not mass murder people for their ethnicity. Much as the Allied soldiers did in World War 2.

No, neither of those two things are true.

I don’t think all scientists work backwards from their own conclusions. But I do think they work forwards from the conclusions of those who came before. Standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that. Science cannot create axioms, so the foundation of scientific knowledge is always nonscientific reasoning and observation.

And I think it’s perfectly appropriate to use violence on those whose worldview is violent. Look up the tolerance paradox sometime for an explanation why.

Actually, soulism is a misnomer. It has very little to do with dualism and much more to do with anarchism of perception. The more accurate name is anarcho-antirealism. So I hope that’s safer for you to engage with.

Hell yeah! Would you be so kind as to repost this to !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net?

Aw, thanks!

I’d like to try My hand at making the list of non-automatically-federated community names admin-customisable

Yeah, I was editing the code yesterday and realised we were both wrong. What it actually does is prevent the automatic bulk federator, which is a tool only admins have, from fetching those communities. It doesn’t affect the manual community fetcher, which is what users use. So it doesn’t limit user capabilities, only admin capabilities for automation. Also, the commit you linked is super out of date, the code is very different now.

Oh boy oh boy, I think I’m about to receive a fun link with more Nutomic bad takes