#+TITLE: Lifechanging is learning
#+AUTHOR: screwtape
Crystalising yesterday's phost casts several obvious truths in a new
light. One of my friends in the fediverse, dstu -
@trurl@mastodon.sdf.org - shares two important wisdoms from their life
with me. One is an emacs mode that was lost to the sands of time,
planner-mode I think https://emacswiki.org/emacs/PlannerMode and when
that emacs mode went unmaintained, the effect was a catastrophic loss
of regular self-organisation for those it had been important to; and
Some Other Thing was not the same. The other was the family of
statistical approaches as such that had been used to directly effect
language translation, the IBM alignment models, which were a
theoretical casualty of deep learning's adoption in natural language
processing.

These are two regular ways of doing things: Forming and maintaining
several time scales of organisation in dynamic life and a way of
directly getting an unfamiliar language into a familiar language.

Lisp itself isn't a list of killer features: It's a way of life, the
shared language of a community.

Adopting ansi clim2 fundamentally changed how I use my computers every
day. Org-mode's life-in-plain-text attests the same. When Sussman says
the next technological step is a fundamental change in interaction
with programming as such with new layers of communication and
information sharing and organisation, we are talking about a sea
change, a change seen in our life moment to moment and day to
day. This kind of change is what learning is. It is literally
catastrophic in that the way of life before is by definition gone.

Burrowing a gopherhole, #100daystooffload (mastodon tag), getting a
sea-worthy bicycle are varyingly difficult ways to learn; change what
our lives are. We can see 82MHz' writing explicitly on their active
personal development.

A fundamental change in nature I am diving into this month is that
seen at https://veilid.com : A distributed hashtable network for
internetworking at about personal-sharing speeds. This foils how we
know every corporation (and government) constantly attacks people
connecting to the internet in the ways of the previously high-trust
pre-commercialised internet (to many intents and purposes, pre-1994).