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by 5040 3y ago
Empathy gets displaced when victimization becomes commonplace.
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by 5040 3y ago
Rights have been abrogated in the past. AI will change the way we treat original creations. Consider the following historical example: >The maxim "Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos," which is Latin for &qu
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by 5040 3y ago
Personally, I was won over by Scott Alexander's argument that news sites very rarely lie. They very often mislead and obfuscate, but that's fakery of another kind. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sorry-i
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by 5040 4y ago
*/acc will usually refer to the different flavors of 'accelerationism' that emerged after left-accelerationism became a thing. Here's a good primer by the infamous Nick Land, arguably the father of accelerationism. http
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by 5040 4y ago
Did Japan care about Turkey's invasion of Greece? Sadly, this sort of thing happens all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
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by 5040 4y ago
>I think it's highly loaded to phrase this as NATO expansion. It sounds like NATO somehow coerced these countries into joining, or annexed them somehow. That's not where I would put the emphasis. Though there was some courting,
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by 5040 4y ago
Yeah. Those initial airstrikes really freaked Russia out. Relations were never the same after them. NATO's first military attack really shook them.
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by 5040 4y ago
Demand for American currency abroad brought stability to the currency. If that demand should diminish significantly, future American financial excesses will become a lot more dangerous. This might speed along decline or motivate a return to
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by 5040 4y ago
Good or bad, this is kind of cool. The most common way of distinguishing periods of geological time is by means of the fossils they contain. On this basis picking out the Anthropocene in the rocks of days to come will be pretty easy. Citie
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by 5040 4y ago
>One of the most insidious ideas of our time This isn't obvious to me. The idea is to pursue profits above all else, but also that giving people what they want will result in maximal profits. Is giving people what they want insidiou
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by 5040 4y ago
This is a good article about the situation in Argentina: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/crypto-argentina-black-m...
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by 5040 4y ago
Pirates will gladly provide that content to the AI. Look what's happening with deepfakes.
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by 5040 4y ago
It's not like everyone needs to make photographic reproductions, why not delegate the task to photorealistic painters? Now that we've gotten used to the convenience of having a camera in our pocket, who would suggest banning photo
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by 5040 4y ago
>My one gripe – and it's a big one – about Obsidian is that it just does not give one whit about trying to integrate with macOS. This might get better soon. @kepano, the developer of Minimal, is working on a new "default theme
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by 5040 4y ago
>I've met a lot of people whose concern for others drops off sharply beyond their own family and friends. This is why Hierocles the Stoic had the right idea when he pushed people to move one circle over. This is a far more practical
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by 5040 4y ago
Legalize building apartments above them, and I'll warm to the strip mall.
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by 5040 4y ago
The claim is that these things were much more difficult to do.
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by 5040 4y ago
Makes me think of those novice lockpickers who buy a bunch of cheap locks from some dollar-store, only to find these surprisingly difficult to pick because of poor machining tolerances.
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by 5040 5y ago
To celebrate, here's a piece of beaver-related trivia: The Cistercians often chose places between landscape features, e.g. where a river comes out of a wooded forest. Since they often started communities in the bottoms of valleys they
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by 5040 5y ago
Is this an argument for general prolifération of nuclear arms, for defensive purposes?
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by 5040 5y ago
Like everything, it depends on the context. Ass-slapping athletes are different than Ass-slapping construction workers.
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by 5040 5y ago
That's odd. I get recommended Japanese content despite living in Canada. Much of this content is welcome too.
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by 5040 5y ago
>Oddly enough - the process in a library for digitising a copy of a book can be fairly destructive Not that long ago, there was a very destructive push to convert old books to microfilm. I worry that not enough lessons were learned. Here
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by 5040 5y ago
>It goes back at least 50 years more, to Star Trek transporters. Personally, I like to trace this stuff back to early Christian theological debates. Here's an illuminating quotation: Origen's belief that he could be resurrecte
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by 5040 5y ago
It may also be that people in these places took more precautions of their own initiative.
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by 5040 5y ago
Winamp was still my music player of choice until a little over a year ago when I finally made the switch to MusicBee.
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by 5040 5y ago
This is reminiscent of colonial generals denouncing the ambush tactics of guerillas as cowardly. If they were men, they would fight in the open, etc.
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by 5040 5y ago
Reminds me of this: https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/not-for-came...
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by 5040 5y ago
Prices aren't obvious. Movies are a good example of this. >Surprisingly, during the court battles over the legality of the VCR, the studios began selling their movies on Betamax and VHS—to play on the very devices they were trying t
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by 5040 5y ago
There's some interesting details from Rome too. Take this on Cato: >As his income grew, Cato also became a regular investor in commercial lending. Although a law from 218 BC banned senators from engaging directly in commercial shipp

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