one thing at a time!

- We need to learn Nahuatl. I mean, just look at these awesome words. No other language has this much street cred, at least in not in Tenochtitlan, ancient or modern. (and it's a hoppin' place: as they say, Tenochtitlan in weyaltepetl Mexihco.)

- There's a whole lot to do. The next few days and weeks are going to be exciting. It'll be okay, though. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? :)

... experience is probably just a technicality...

I don't think it's derisive, but sometimes people 'round these parts chuckle when they hear I'm into Nietzsche.

But I don't think it's that strange, in the realm of things, wanting to make up your own goodness metric for evaluating situations in the giant pomdp that seems to be life. I mean, you sort of have to do something, right? Just sitting around is pretty unsatisfying. ... of course, the things I've been doing recently have been a bit on the unsatisfying side, too... hrm...

But how can anything aside from "helping things that can feel happy feel happy" be good?

You might say (as some of you have, in the past), that happiness is overrated. Yet you haven't suggested some alternative. And I rather prefer happiness, personally -- though I realize that this is circular.

The way out is arbitration -- I choose to use this particular value function, and that's that. Or failing that, I'm using this particular evaluation function (defined by "the world works out in such a way that I like these things to this extent"), whether you want to talk about choice or not.

Martin samarin, you may now point out that I have trouble knowing that there's a "me" or experiences or such a thing as a function.