What’s the best local coding model these days?

You should try reading ccru then.

Many ancient cultures use behavior as identity. It certainly has a charm.

Was it the Navajos whose language doesn't have nouns, only verbs? A noun is a kind of illusion of eternal identity. A chair is only chair-ing for the moment as a configuration of matter that was doing something else before, and will fall apart and transform into doing something else in the future.

IIRC Navajo has a pretty robust noun-verb distinction. However there definitely are other languages where nouns and verbs behave very similarly, e.g. most famously Salishan languages. That said, there don’t seem to be any natural languages in which nouns and verbs are completely indistinguishable — there’s always some minor difference in how they behave.

I don't think noun as a grammatical class is an issue, all the more if we take for granted that grammar themselves are mere inferences modeling what's happening on average when producing some utterance, or at least a very simplified representation of a leaned version of the utterance.

It might become more problematic when using a term such as substantive which can connotate some ontological beliefs about the nature of the word or what it refers to, or their relationship.

English is already very generous with conversion of word type without morphological impact in general. I heard Mandarin don't have even that kind of string lexical typology bound to every item in the vocabulary, but I didn't check the details to be transparent.

Thanks anyway for the hints on the other languages

It certainly feels like there is no journalism in our zeitgeist. It’s been replaced by propaganda, and sensationalism.

I think it was always like that but there were people in journalism fighting hard against it. They lost, apparently somewhat permanently it seems.

"Journalism" has to compete with the likes of TikTok these days in terms of information availability, and TikTok (and it's infinite scrolling ilk) are not subject to the same principles that traditional journalism has been.

It makes perfect sense that the modern press has devolved to a 24-hour rumor mill; if they hadn't, they'd be even more irrelevant.

I think it started long before that but yes that's why they lost.

So urbit’s nock vs forth?

Have any examples that stand out to you to share ?

That’s only 25-30% of the energy environmental disaster in sector 137 resulting from the Bitcoin cluster inevitably forming a black hole from the plank scale space-filling compute problem.

Just use unreal ?

Information is absolutely stuff.

How much does that thought cost? How much does it weigh?

Information absolutely has a cost, somebody had to create it.

Weight is just nonsense. Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

> Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

Physical presence is a requirement for stuff. Stuff has value because of the balance between supply and demand. Information that has been digitally encoded has literally infinite supply. Information only has any value in the context of imaginary property laws that impose artificial scarcity.

AI companies downloading information is not subsidizing AI companies. Imposing imaginary property law is stealing from the public domain. Everyone's public domain.

Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train