Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:47:45 -0400 From: funkymail To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Non-Canon STTMCBoss thread 71 was Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 01:42:10PM -0400, funkymail via cypherpunks wrote: > > https://ar.anyone.tech/6cb-OyzPFi1nJYZ-uHAHH2uwoCbosf0AQuS_qGEgBXY#-U_3AcjRgZTZOzif1iQ9xSi2nHQAlAkNfuey4AubE5R-r_7AW_9ZFMgbmBxlSPjx#1905870 > > https://ar.anyone.tech/WQnYlm58fO0G-zFK2kCBkdvTL0mT8P2xH6TdTDV9CGc > > i may end up running mbsync by hand. anyway ...! > > > so. in the 2010s there was a tiny newsitem that this chinese grad > student or such had applied ICA to video and found you could use it to > measure pulse ox parameters pretty simply. > > heartpulse app is an attempt to make a mobile app that shows this-- > > [noting some inhibition experiences, they describe observing people's > pulses with video as evil or creepy and focus on amplifying the evilness > judgements and associated stoppingness with the behavior, rather than > relating around responsible implementation or use.] > > --using normal optimization procedures for mobile tech demos at the > time. > > this pursuit roughly ended my life of optimizing algorithms. > > https://ar.anyone.tech/06A3e23wXYwcR-RnGF_IKnPhi8krLWBohpzY9wBn80c#UR5xrZOsJD28uTZhT9diRz2Cj3dSYJ6fPRdT4GO4qga9z5LcYUUq3nsP4hx3AZDb#1905876 > https://ar.anyone.tech/S1UTv6HrFilwXUxuDXIGpHOvISG62oG_CdzYJakyUHs more creepiness amplification. of course the problems are in the tech work, not the release or use, it is now what i am navigating. suddenly i am realizing that it's use of full-imate averages means a person so far away they are only a single pixel could have their heartbeat reported clearly to a user-- [would send here but that would mean waiting for mbsync ...] now feeling kind of nauseaus and having a different kind of dissociation ... taking;some time. so it's very powerful, the stoppingness, but it's illogical because it is talking about things i am not doing, such as _using_ or _sharing_ an app i _have not started_ that uses _generally useful technology_ (that is also quite old now). here we kinda see my habit of arguing with my experiences. they raise strong reasons that are likely insufficiently true -- they act for goals moreso. getting hard to be rational and consistent.