Working backwards…

[AHH] And the stampede into the cattle chute of WW3 goes on..
It’s developed a gravity all it’s own not unlike the Itaewon crowd crush of 2022. The crowd dynamics are similar if you’ve seen the videos.  Almost out of elbow room to maneuver a way out of this. Even if we get out of this, there are several more opportunities to channel everyone into another chute.  Bypass or reverse flow (requires room to maneuver).

[Mr. P]

Interesting picture (Ivana lookalike). AI generated output as an ouji board only instead of hands holding a widget on a board, we have a sequence of 1’s and 0’s and transform algorithms to fancy it up. What’s really happening in the AI ‘black box’ to shape the final sequence of 1’s and 0’s to decode into uncanny results in human-readable format? Cosmic rays..best case. But what exactly is causing the skew. It is deterministic? I don’t know. From what I understand, developing a good AI model is like cultivating wild yeast into a refined strain. Impossible to tell what’s going on in any given region within the pot at a cellular level. It just works at the macro level. Was wise enough to not accept an invitation to ouiji sessions.

Deterministic outcomes… sort of like Taylor polynomials for approximations, knowing when and where the approximation converges, diverges and by how much. Any degree of precision if you’re willing put in the work to calculate the next term. With enough terms, can take the approximation to the bank – for a time. Also helpful to recognize convergence points. All forms.

Speaking of ouiji, I recall a classroom chatter in my gradeschool years. Before class, the girls who sat behind me compared notes of their ouiji PJ party. They were extremely spooked about what happened. Something about the answers, someone’s dead uncle, personal secrets and who must have told who. Also very defensive with each other, accusations of who or what was moving the piece on the board. The gist of it: tit for tat questions to the ouiji board revealed their secret thoughts toward one another. The friendship disintegrated.

[Armarynth]

Regarding the recent misfortune, I wonder if the word ‘inflammation’ was meant instead of ‘infection’ – as an autocorrect error. Thoughts go to OSHA training. Ingestion, inhalation, skin, or injection (includes venomous). The fast-acting (implied) nature suggest a commonality that was close. Infections don’t work that fast to overcome two able-bodied people without at least one person able to get help. Toxins on the other hand…my guess: drink, food, inhalation – in that order. Maybe a common-use product. I’d quarantine food and drink from the time it happened as a precaution. It wouldn’t be the 1st time there was a deadly contaminate discovered a product whether intentional or not. I have horror stories from my time in production.

Mr P.,

There was a fascinating thread on one of the ‘chans a few months ago (a place where one frequently must check a dosimeter against exposure limit while mining for diamonds). It went like this: if there was a communication channel to another parallel realm, how would that look like? Once it dawned on scientists what they were looking at, government would get involved. I assume at some point trade would happen. Information for information. And later treaties. Participants wheeling and dealing with each other across the veil, sight unseen. Intel would have to be verified of course, technological knowledge applied and tested. Perhaps a meta-faction would arise to guide the world to conform to the accord. The problem is transparency of the counter-party on the other side of the veil. Some could say it may be counterpart government. Others could interpret it as djinn. Not mutually exclusive – geo-politics and dimension-politics. I’m told that the Koran hints at parallel universes and also I wonder where the parallel calculation of quantum computing occurs. And possible attempts at side channel communication through preturbance of qubits. Or other measurements. Preturbance of gravity and light from the calculated result is how we discovered the presence of planets around nearby stars sight unseen, isn’t it?

The native americans who dealt with 1st contact with the old world settlers must have
thought the booze and ‘special’ blankets were a fine deal and that they had finally one-upped a rival tribe. Later, the Henry rifles (but not Bofors cannons interestingly)…by then more than enough intel gathered for a final solution. The intel being used to great effect. Elimination of food sources, exploitation of tribal warfare, cultural deconstruction and corruption, reservations, ‘boarding’ schools.

WW3 seems to be a desired outcome to whatever meta-faction. As to the Kinzhals, only two carrier groups in exchange for VVP or Lavrov? They’d take that trade in a heartbeat. A rook and pawn in exchange for a Queen and/or King? Not those two? Then the missiles may be a sufficient deterent. I think the CPPP (ha, I see what you did there!) needs a higher premium. Potential difference being high enough, current will find a path through the very air, miles thick. Lightning strike. Could suit the maybe-not-so-hypothetical meta-faction just fine in their goals.

Amarynth,

My deepest condolences for the ordeal experienced and the loss of a loved one. A prayer goes without saying. That the gravity of the situation was that great and the outcome so close.. when the time is right, I hope you’ll share exactly how this came to be.

Please get well. I’ll rework the words you once told me: the 1st responsibility (health and safety) is for yourself and surviving loved ones. More prayers for you tonight.