pre internet shenanigans.. tokyo..ish. [photo from way south.]

story about concussion #428 https://youtu.be/3tJlfj6C0sA?si=tOXUBvWeXx2UnsQd My story is from the late 80's rather than 82. [I didn't go to clown school til 83 ] Rob and I both got on local then longer reaching trains in Tokyo together and it wasn't til we were 2/3rds there we worked out each of us thought the other had bought the stilts. We were heading to a shopping center with a very large entrance that had a huge screen that was the edited security footage of the entrance plus ads. We [Rob and I] had worked out it would be an ideal cheap thing to offer to work there if we got a copy of the footage. We put it to our 'boss' who was head of mitsubishi mirage marketing and he rang ahead for us and got us permission. It was my job to go back home and grab both stilts and costumes, an extra two hours, while rob, with his superior and impeccably sourced Japanese language skills, talked to the representatives of the owner. I returned and Rob and I played on stilts in a huge vestibule but also on escalators going up to six stories...and afterwards got invited to the exclusive apartment of the elderly couple who were the ultimate titans of the enterprise. So Robs taking to them , having charmed them with his freak poly- linguistic intrinsically intellectual appreciation of their language in their apartment on the top of the shopping center . I am introduced by Rob to this elderly couple and politely put up with it before asking where their toilet was. I was directed to a room. It had shag carpet. That's how confident this elderly couple were that they would never piss on the floor. That's how private this particular toilet was, this was the honour we were being bestowed. The toilet itself was a Japanese push button nightmare, you opened the lid and everything lit up, in a language you didn't understand....so you just piss and shit anyway and then there are chimes and a humming sound and suddenly a small powerful stream of water directly hits your anus. It may have been heatseeking, the technology was beyond me but my reaction was a short scream and me launching myself from the toilet and headbutting the door. Everybody heard. Rob and the Owners of the shopping center and the toilet. I headbutted the door and then looked back, the stream that was aimed at my anus was now arching out of the toilet and onto the shag carpet. I did what was required, against all my primitive impulses I over-rode them socially and used my ass as a cork and backed into the stream and tried to mitigate shag tragedy and took a seat on the fountain. Japan is unique in how easy it is for collectively embarrassed people to avoid conflict. We got out and got our footage but it was all before the internet so it may as well never have happened.

I'll delete this tomorrow but just for 24 hours my munch scream

Why does reality indulge this fuckwit? It's astonishing!. He sits in courtrooms quietly shitting under a blanket of charges and yet the world gives him the keys? Fucking species needs to go. Homosapiens can't even wipe it's ass.

Fascists are historically losers

Birthday gratitude as a 62 year old

I'd like also to thank the legion of friends it took to machinate over years to do this and to do that, all so the dissolution of the underlying foundations of early 21st century world civilisation could dissolve spectacularly on 8/4/25. So grateful and humbled and yet because I'm programed by catholic parents I have to say.."You shouldn't have."

oops

First 2025 post

'What worrisome trend in society are you beginning to notice?' That outrage porn is to the 21st century what sex sells was to the 20th in terms of engagement. Subsequently via positive reinforcement it's obvious emotional reactionarism has surpassed logic as the foundation of peoples worldviews rendering them as nodes fundamentally and not the rugged individuals and free thinkers they have been sold as skins.

Always believed humour could be quantified

Jürgen Schmidhuber's Theory of Fun and Creativity

Jürgen Schmidhuber's theory of fun is intrinsically linked to creativity through the concept of compression progress. According to this theory, both fun and creativity are driven by the discovery or creation of novel patterns that allow for improved prediction or data compression.

Key Aspects of Schmidhuber's Theory

1. Intrinsic Motivation
The theory posits that agents (human or artificial) are intrinsically motivated to discover or create new patterns that were previously unknown or unpredictable.

2. Novelty and Surprise
Fun and creativity arise from encountering or generating data that is novel and surprising, yet still compressible in some way.

3. Learning Progress
The experience of fun is tied to the process of learning to better compress or predict new information, which is a fundamental aspect of creativity.

4. Algorithmic Principle
Schmidhuber argues that this mechanism is driven by a simple algorithmic principle that uses reinforcement learning to maximize internal joy for discovering or creating novel patterns.

5. Applications Across Domains
This theory aims to explain various creative behaviors, including scientific discovery, art, music, humor, and even skill acquisition. For example, in learning a new skill like juggling, the theory explains the sense of fun and achievement as the result of generating a novel sensory input sequence (observing oneself juggling) that becomes increasingly predictable as one improves.

Scientists and Artists: A Unified Framework

Schmidhuber's framework suggests that both scientists and artists are engaged in similar processes of creating new, compressible data:

• Scientists seek to discover new patterns in nature that can be described by concise theories or models.
• Artists strive to create works that offer novel, yet comprehensible experiences for observers.

This unified approach to creativity and fun provides a formal basis for understanding intrinsic motivation in both human and artificial intelligence contexts, bridging the gap between subjective experiences and computational principles.

Audio overview....https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/380963d2-7e9a-4da8-a557-7c526b404a13/audio

References

1. IEEE Creative Paper
2. Creativity Research
3. Reddit Discussion
4. Wikipedia: Creativity
5. YouTube Lecture
6. ACM Paper
7. Additional Lecture
8. Archive.org Recording