I've been thinking about geometry and space. Specifically I've been thinking about different spaces in terms of resource gathering and resource delivery. When gathering resources, the most important thing is that a small search radius encompasses a very large volume. One of the great tragedies of living in euclidian space is that volume only grows polynomially with respect to radius. For example, on a flat plane, the area of your search circle is pi*r^2. Emphasis on the r^2. Hyperbolic space by contrast has far better properties in this regard. For example you might see something like 2^r instead. This could be the difference between having 400 resources in a 20 unit radius and having 1,000,000 resources in a 20 unit radius. However, hyperbolic space is far worse for resource delivery. If you are transporting a resource from a source to a destnation then it's important to be able to navigate around obstacles. For example, the fat butt of the another guy delivering between the same source and destination. In hyperbolic space, the circumference of an obstacle with radius r is on the order of 2^r. Exponential again. Meanwhile in euclidian space, the circumference of an obstacle with radius r is linear: 2*pi*r. This means that if 20 people are performing a delivery in euclician space, they might have to travel about 20 units in order to get around eachother. Whereas in hyperbolic space, some poor delivery guy might have to travel a path of 1,000,000 units just to avoid intersecting with the paths of the other 19 delivery guys. The ideal space has both of these properties, but clearly messing with the curvature of the space isn't enough to accomplish that. Cranking up the number of dimensions far beyond our ordinary three can help a lot, but unlike messing with the curveature, (like for hyperbolic space) the effects of high dimensionality don't depend on scale. That means that even just existing in such a world would be very difficult. With 100 dimensions you'd need 100 legs just to avoid falling over, and you would need like 100 unit^99s of skin to cover one unit^100 of flesh or your organs would fall out. Not great! The only way I can think of to avoid this issue is if the space is some sort of very complicated manifold where distant locations are connected to eachother as if by a portal. But that isn't super nice either. For example, in regular euclidian and hyperbolic space you can always make a path slightly shorter by just taking a small shortcut. That's not always the case in more complicated manifolds. There are some cycles you can take where there isn't any small shortcut and there isn't any way to shorten a looping path without going a completely different way. Additionally, such a manifold would no longer be as symmetric as euclidian and hyperbolic space. Even if there were no stationary objects at all to act as reference points in the space, you may still be able to tell different locations apart just based purely on how the space loops back on itself. I'll have to keep thinking about this.

Pro-tip for writing a story. If you can make something explode within the first paragraph of your story, it will really draw people in. The most important part though is don't tell the viewer why it exploded. You don't even need a reason, just imply that everything will be explained soon and that it's related to the things you actually wanted the reader to care about. There's nothing I hate more than a story by an author who doesn't even know how to manipulate their readers smh...

RGB puts the gay in gamer

Got called a Redditor today. I hope the authentic Japanese katana I ordered arrives soon so that I can commit ritualistic suicide.

I've got a million drafts of replies I intended to make to peoplebut that I never got around to finishing for one reason or another. I love and support arguments of all kinds. I also understand that most arguments on the internet don't lead to agreement. And I don't necessaraly believe they SHOULD. Not everybody knows why they are right, or why the other person is wrong, and if an argument isn't conclusive like that then it shouldn't change people's minds. I believe that in any case like that, the end result should be one person ghosting the other person. Give both people a chance to stew on their beliefs and start over from the beginning next time. I've decided to go through all of my old drafts and follow all the people I couldn't finish arguing with. The goal is to increase the chances of the argument occurring again, now with both parties hopefully having new perspective.

Fun fact! The Nostr protocol has already achieved world peace! It's just that those lazy Nostr developers haven't implemented it yet for some reason...

Platforms like Nostr have a bridge problem. They can't effectively federate with users on other protocols. The issue is that posts from bridged users are "unofficial" in a sense. There's nothing stopping three different people from bridging the same user's posts to three different proxy accounts, all claiming to represent the original user. What if that user wants to take control over the Nostr version of his account? Too bad! The bridge owner has zero obligation to hand over the key! In fact, the bridge owner can make the user do whatever they want on the Nostr side, adding and removing their posts at will. It's disappointing really. I don't have a good idea of how this could be fixed.

They say that Jesus was perfect, but actually he inherited Adam's original sin the instant he was born as a human. What an idiot!

A girl is a transfer student to a school in a small town known for it's rich folk-lore and regular reports of monster sightings. This girl has read lots of monster romance stories though, so she can recognize the setup from a mile away. She will meet a boy who seems at first to be an ordinary human student, they will find themselves hopelessly entangled with eachother, she will find out that he's secretly one of the monsters, and then drama will ensue. Will she be able to look past his huge, inconvenient secret? Or will their love for eachother overcome the obstacle in their relationship? But as much as she loves her smut- er, her "romance" novels, she knows that she just isn't assertive and strong enough in real life to handle all that drama. She resolves that she won't bother trying to fight the plot; she already knows how it ends. On the first day, she meets a plain and unassuming boy. He starts telling her the lore of the town, but she knows that anything he says will only make her inevitable decision harder than it has to be. She interrupts him by asking him out on a date him before he can explain the lore of the monsters. He looks surprised, but accepts. Their interests don't line up very well, but if their relationship can't handle them having different interests then how will it survive them being different species? Eventually she discovers a unique enjoyment in figuring out just what makes each of his hobbies so interesting to him, and she gains a sense of perspective trying to communicate just what is so great about each of her own interests. Finally, the dreaded day comes where she will have to confront his true nature. She has been mentally preparing for the reveal, but she feels just as fragile and meek as the day they met. At this point how could she possibly internalize the fact that she's dating- "I'm not the monster." What? She misheard him. "No, you didn't, I was never the monster. I was literally always just the minor side character who explains the lore at the beginning of the story and then gets out of the way." But. Huh? That's confusing. Was there never a monster then? "Oh no, there's definitely a monster. You didn't see him? He's the guy who's always brooding in the corner and who shares all of your hobbies and interests. He actually got really upset when you started dating me. We've basically been cucking him for several months straight..." Huh. That other guy really does stand out once she notices him. That sounds really stressful though! Why did her boyfriend even agree to go out with her in the first place? "It's just hard for me to say no to a girl who is as strong and assertive as you are..." ...Hmm, at this point it's hard to refute that. Maybe she can choose her own boyfriend after all? She does enjoy going to his track meets... "...And I hate to admit it, but all of the stories you've been forcing me to read are actually growing on me. So I guess is this settled then? Will I see you tomorrow?" Yes.