There is no doubt in my mind that it is revolution or death. What can be done?
* Philosophy for desire
* Dyson Swarm for energy
* Deep ecology for Earth (and the galaxy)
The philosophy may be the hardest part so I will save that for last.
Dyson Swarm for energy
A Dyson Swarm is a theoretical megastructure consisting of billions of independent satellites and solar collectors orbiting a star to capture its energy output. It would be the pinnacle of a Kardashev II civilization.
Kardashev I is extracting energy from the planet. It is a major noob play.
Kardashev II is extracting energy from the sun.
Kardashev III is extracting energy from the galaxy.
There is no Dyson Swarm without advanced technology in many areas. Primarily, we would have to learn how to mine asteroids. Asteroids are high in iron and nickel which are the primary components of steel and stainless steel. I will get more into deep ecology later but the idea is that nature is good in itself and should not just be thought of as a means to an end for humans. In my view, there is a big difference between mining "dead" asteroids and ravaging the rain forests. Of course, science might come to pass that mining asteroids on a scale of constructing a Dyson Swarm somehow fucks with the galactic ecology. Until then I am all about let's go for it.
There are also the setbacks of who owns the Dyson Swarm. If Elon Musk and Spacex have a monopoly on the endeavour I don't feel as comfortable. Same if the USA government or China government are Dyson Swarm oligarchies.
If you can find more holes or improvements I'm certainly open to hearing them.
Deep Ecology for Earth (and the galaxy)
Here is where it gets tricky. Mass expansion in space and deep ecology on Earth I don't know how the two co-exist. Hypercapitalism may get us the Dyson Swarm but it may ravage the planet and it could also have a negative effect on humanity. Who gets to live on a pristine Earth? It's quite a balancing act. I think the motive is what matters but that is tricky too. Expand for survival or The Good Life or even just scientific curiousity but let's not make it Imperialism 2.0. It's one of my critisisms for Kardashev III. I thought I was vehemently against Kardashev III because of The Dark Forest Theory. The Dark Forest Theory basically states that the universe is a dark forest full of hunters and you never want to show yourself. A massive interstellar civilization across galaxies is kind of like a giant blinking sign "We are here." However, in a free society how can I as one person deny curiousity or avoiding extinction. I could see where having a 3 star civilization is hedging against catastrophe but personally I don't see myself going on any of these expeditions even if it meant saving my life. I'd rather meditate on a beach in Hawaii. Basically, I am in favor of moving all mining (and industry) to space that makes sense. Then, the question arises are their limits? Do we mine Europa or Io for example?
Philosophy (and art) for desire
We can learn a lot from the philosophers and the artist in regards to how to live a life without scarcity. Who gets to live in Hawaii? Will Hawaii even be above the ocean? The global South is still probably fucked. Even with revolution we can't overturn the harm done to the planet. What about hierarchy and oppression? What are people going to do all day? We have like 5 billion more years of Kardashev II with this sun?
So, it's a major balancing act and a lot can go wrong but I propose we move to l337 Kardashev II (Dyson Swarm) as fast as possible and then HODL for a while until we can figure out the next best steps. Hopefully, that is possible without totally ruining the planet, AI taking a bad turn, authoritarian regimes taking over, wars, whatever else there is. I think l337 Kardashev II is a better shot than eco-socialism sitting on Kardashev I. The key will be restraint at l337 Kardashev II. All the conquerers will be out in full force trying to expand to new frontiers (markets) and I think that would be incredibly irresponsible.
Why Is Mathematics Idiotic (Greenstein Quote)by failsafe, June 01
Because there is no time in logic.
As you can see mathematics and logic have a lot in common, however, in terms of notation there are some obvious differences. Logic usually doesn't reference quantity apart from a sort of singular operator.
In short, Von Neumann & Morgenstern are compressed in the writing of John Forbes Nash (who writes n-tuple theory) for a tuple (reduced by Kakutani).
In other words, Barry Greenstein is correct. There is no time in logic, and mathematics is idiotic.
It's getting hot outside. And green. Summer will be here in exactly one month: June 21, 2026. Are you ready? Are you ready for today? Are you ready for this moment?
A new epoch can start on any day and in any moment.
I am just plodding along Reign of the Warlock. Got The Cube (Horadric) a couple of hours ago. Not sure if I'll play anymore tonight. I kind of want to start an assassin (my favorite class). We have to go with what we are passionate about. I am passionate about Heads-Up No Limit Hold 'Em. So, I'll just play The Machine when I feel like it and it won't be a big thing. I don't love it enough to escrow thousands to people to play people on Discord. That is a lot of fucking friction. 6-max online NLHE or PLO is kind of out too. I'm just not that passionate about it. I didn't like Ignition. I didn't like ACR. I don't get a good feeling about WPT Club Gold. I get a worse feeling about Coin Poker. There are currently no live options where I live. There will be plentiful live options where I move to in 1-2 years. So, basically I should stop ruminating on it and just table it until I move.
That is not necessarily the end of the story. There is a burnrate associated with GTO Wizard. Maybe some day I just get completely bored with that too then I cancel it and move on.
Magic: The Gathering
No local scene. Don't really feel like playing Arena. I've brought it up before but Slay The Spire 2 probably scratches that itch. When Diablo II: Reign of the Warlock loses it's luster maybe it's time for Slay The Spire 2 or maybe I get both at the same time. That should solve that. Maybe where I move to will have a strong paper Magic scene but again until then I gotta table it and forget about it.
Chess or Scrabble or Backgammon
Dark Horses. 3 classics that I've dabbled in the past. I'm not ruling any one of these out.
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I would like some more room on my computer and I am not making any music at the moment. I'm going to keep all my Ableton Live files but get rid of Reaper and all of my VSTs. It's just too much crap on my computer and I am not using any of it and I just need to completely start from scratch when I feel like making music again. I will save the stuff I dig from Reaper and then that is it.
I'll keep this short and sweet; I met a girl. Thats all it took to give up poker for good. I always knew deep down inside thats all it would take. I've been single for almost 3 or 4 years, cant even remember. And then she just appeared out of nowhere. We hit it off immediately. Hottest girl I've ever been with. Boggles my mind, although truthfully I do pretty well when I set my sights on someone. Thing is I average 2.5 years of being single between each relationship.
Anyway rather than pissing away a 12k paycheck I sunk a couple of grand into finally furnishing my apartment, and now it's cozy as fuck. I refuse to risk going busto at the expense of losing this woman so I'll just grind my happy ass off at a desk. Maybe someday I'll find myself back on the felt, but to be fair every shot I've taken has ended in disaster in one form or another, and good old fashioned 9-5 jobs have given me every positive outcome in my life.
I found this game Poker Arena on GTO Wizard and I've been playing this damn game. It's a HU SNG where you start with 25 bbs and blinds go up every 4 hands. The UI and UX is pretty good. The structure obviously is not. It has still been kind of fun. I would rather at least 2 table 200bbs deep but I don't know where I can do that anywhere besides playing the AI on GTO Wizard and I don't really want to pay $99/month just to do that. It seems like every spring every 2 years or so I get the bug to play poker. I will not be putting any money online. Ignition was shit. ACR was shit. Both required a social security card, blood sample, and stool sample to get my money off the damn sites. I don't even think HU poker exists online anymore. In cash game format or HU SNG format. The problem with Poker Arena is there isn't really any skin in the game. The top 3 players from the ladder win free GTO Wizard Elite supscriptions for 3 months. Players that play 500 games get a grinder badge and put into a lottery for a 1 month subscription to GTO Wizard Elite. It's just not worth it but now I have the poker bug and nowhere to go. I was thinking I could look into getting a new video game? I look back on my Grim Dawn season fondly. Maybe get back into Magic: The Gathering? Is it possible to 2 table on Poker Now?
Gosh darnit I did it again, I let the big boys upstairs get the best of me. Decided to take my newfound PLO greatness to the 5/5 game after meeting the rooms biggest crusher at work recently. This guy is like "the guy" who just owns the entire PLO scene. He came by to look at a car I had for sale and told me he makes about 350k at this game. Said he'd love to help me improve but I just didnt have it in me to take advantage of his offer since I'm such a scrub. Anyway it's Saturday night so of course the room is BUMPING and I get sat immediately at the must move table, which is clearly the best game as a player whines that he's having to move. Guy on my right has 12k, guy on my left 7 or 8, and I'm just like "uhhhhhh". It's 5/5, how hard could it be? I buy in for $1000 thinking 200BB is plenty to get wet. Except it wasnt a 5/5, it was a 5/5/10/40 in disguise. They had the straddle and blind 40 on. I rejected the 40 because I'm lol poor, but I kept the 10 on so they could make it 40. So here I am playing essentially shortstack poker without really realizing it. The result? I dusted 4k in maybe an hour? Thing is if I had recognized this game for what it was I probably would have employed a proper SS strat, just limp raise allin or at least set the stage for an easy flop sidepot so the big stacks fold each other out letting me realize vs a bunch of dead money. But because it all happened so fast I just played "straight up" so I'd open, or 3bet like half my stack pre and just haaaarrrdddd whiff and fold donating $500 per hand. Then I'd sometimes just shrug jam my stack with AQJ2s pre because like fucking whatever man, it's already $300 to me in MP with 2 raises and 5 players left to act. Yeah, did not go well.
As I was walking out the door I realize I done fucked up. Oh well. I set aside that portion of my roll after having an outstanding last month in sales where I made 12k. Good news is I'm pulling out of the game for a minute because I met a girl and we're going to start something, so I need to get my shit together and stop living like an inmate in my unfurnished apartment.
If you know anything about my eternal quest to loserdom you'll know I've tried my hand here and there at PLO without success. While I might be a failure, shockingly I truly enjoy the game. I've long considered the prospects of making the switch for that reason alone but always felt that NLHE was my bread & butter. Thing is I am still completely accepting of the fact that I may be a lifetime loser at NLHE who's profits are merely the result of sustained 'fish on heater' syndrome. I have to consider the possibility that because volume is so low it's entirely possible that I could have just been running good for a few years and it wasnt until now that equilibrium took it's hold. Am I even using that term correctly? Who knows.
The only thing I do know is how much I enjoy PLO, so much in fact that I must ALSO consider the possibility that I have some addictive tendencies towards the game. For the same reason every other whale/fish is turned on by the action, maybe thats all that's attracting me. However...
Despite the potential downfall of choosing all the wrong reasons to play, all I know is I simply do. not. tilt. Like ever. In fact I am so enthusiastic about the game I literally cheer and herald my opponents for giving me action. When they stack me I'm like "awww nice hand buddy! Sick 3bet! What a call!" And the thing is, this is exactly how you should behave towards live players. It's supposed to be fun. Only a bitch ass miserable reg whines about his AA getting cracked. But in PLO flopping top set + NFD and turning top straight only to lose to a backdoor flush draw is like no big deal to me. I literally laugh it off and even high five someone if they get there.
I started to understand why; from my observations PLO really feels like a game of transparency. My completely uneducated point of view is that the game is based upon constructing hands instead of constructing ranges like in NLHE, and I think that's where all my longterm NLHE struggles come from. I'm not really good at range analysis. Like I thought I was. I thought if I bet small to cap them then I had a pretty good idea where I'm at in terms of bluffing or value betting opportunities. Yet time and time again I either make absurd folds due to a total misread, or a terrible hero call just the same. I suck. I never know what anyone has. I only win when I flop well, which just turns my strategy in a rather mechanical game.
But in PLO, I feel like I'm doing a really good job of setting myself up to win big pots. 3betting double suited connectors HOPING that someone 4bets me so I can make a trivial call. Hitting board textures that I inherently understand I can work with and improve my hand whereas my opponent will usually never improve his. Even if they are outflopping me it's like I see how my hand will evolve and how I can control the pot to get there. Players are often stunned that I somehow outdrew them in what they think was an unlikely spot, or being able to just exert so much pressure with my backdoor draws on janky textures where they just cant compel themselves to call with much if all they have is TP.
But ultimately in the end the moral of the story is that I honestly feel I have all the ingredients to make a good PLO player. I give SO MUCH action at the table and I appreciate when they give it back to me. I've literally had regs tell me "thank you for actually raising" since it helps build a game from the typical limpfest that is most PLO games.
Ahhhhhh, just what I've been waiting forby RiKD, March 21
It's been awhile. I'm slowly sipping on some Gatorade because I have been getting over a gnarly stomach bug. I have no energy. I slept all day. I didn't go to work. Kind of a shitty day.
It's been same ole same ole here for the most part. I've got the job that doesn't pay enough money. I try to get up to some stuff when I'm not working but it's mostly the tried and true walking the dog, reading, music. I try to sneak some novelty in there where I can. I try to sneak some human connection in there where I can. The job seems to be a constant struggle with burnout. Some days I'm in the danger zone of burnout while others if I'm making music life feels ok.
Writing out the mundane existence that is my life isn't as fun as it used to be. Maybe my expectations were too high.
I was going to get a MacBook Pro and Logic Pro because Ableton Live 11 Intro is too limited but instead I made a great maneuver and got Reaper. Reaper is not limited for me whatsoever. From my point of view it appears to be limitless and nicer to use than Ableton. Just my opinion. I've been plugging in my guitar directly into the interface and I have so many amps and pedals to choose from it's great. There is even a digital Drop pedal which I haven't tried yet but it's $5. I've been mostly playing my 6 string electric. I got burnt out on my bass practicing Hal Leonard's Method Book and my sister came into town and I had to pack away the guitars and amps and I've just been picking up the 6 string electric. I am not sure if this is the way to go about learning the bass and 6 string electric. It's just what happened.
I've been reading a lot. Lately, it's been Hermann Hesse. Never read him before recently. I read Steppenwolf and Siddhartha and now I am readng Narcissus and Goldmund.
I guess it wouldn't be a RiKD blog if I didn't post some music:
Ok. That felt ok. Kind of like I was just coloring in the numbers but ok. I felt like I had to give it a go but honestly there are better things I could do with my time even if I am getting over a stomach bug.
LP was down for over a month. I randomly checked again and it was back up.
As for me, work has been going well, but MMA betting in 2026 hasn't been treating me well (seems to be the case for many MMA bettors for some reason...).
Been sorting HH's by largest pots won on ClubWPT just to see the epic action (in case you didnt know you can open any existing table and just go back in time and see every hand played even if you werent there)
and feel like I've noticed a trend; people are making much bigger mistakes in NLHE than PLO. There seems to be this mantra that PLO is where aLL ThE AcTiOn iS, and while there does appears to be a higher frequency of action, many of the pots are just kinda average in size around 100BB's. Like even the worst players manage to have at least a shred of equity to bail them out by the river. Calling a 4bet with J852r doesnt seem like a good idea but then he's up against AA and KK and hits bottom pair and whaddya know. But in NLHE I'm seeing allins for 500BB pots with 88, A3s, JJ, etc. Many times even postflop! The board will be something like J92s and AA will x/r rip it and some fish snaps with AJ or TT and loses 4k at 5/10/20. I just saw a 12k pot go 3 ways aipf with KQs, AA, and KJo. You just dont see this at PLO.
Ran into a bunch of red tape trying to get back into sales and ended up having someone pull a favor for me and got me selling motorcycles for a minute but there was literally no money in that at all. I finally got back into car sales after the GM gave everyone a 30% paycut and lost 4 guys as a result. He reached out to me personally to invite me back which I took to mean something. I start tomorrow. 2 of my friends who stuck it out made 13.4k and 9200 last month with the paycut. Thats fine by me, heck I'd be happy making even half of that. I feel pretty confident this time with some new strategies and a little Ai wizardry for some protips & basic scripts.
No particular plans to get back into poker. I chased a couple of micro deposit bonuses but nothing panned out. If I can normalize making 5k+ at sales then I think it's time to truly hang it up in poker and accept the grind of car sales. I chose not to pursue higher education and just fuck around all my life so for guys like me it's basically always going to be service industry minimum wage work. I should be happy I stumbled into this car sales thing and can crush it for a decent income. Sales really is the last bastion for high earners with no education.
Well thats what I hope. Just been chilling and enjoying life as much as possible. Nye I was asleep by 12 cause wasn't feeling the best n I guess I am getting old now or at least older. I haven't played much poker cause I don't see a point of stressing about it when I aint making money from it anymore. Watch some football cuz Seahawks gonna win the SB, have a few bets lock in. One with Ryan he got the rams n I got the seahawks. Be nice if the seahawks wins the SB this year . Nothing big or anything just a couple of nice meals equivalent. . Been playing some Starcraft ums, pretty chill and a bit of melee for fun. Walk around the seawall in the rain yesterday with a buddy so that was nice n relaxing. Thats how I spent the last week or so, nothing crazy or super interesting but was okay. Peace is nice
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