Arodex

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by Arodex 5d ago
I appreciate the insights of Alfred Korzybski: the map is not the territory, the verb "to be" can be very reducing, etc. His thoughts also directly inspired Dianetics, i.e. Scientology, and several prominent followers of Korzybski
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by Arodex 5d ago
Crimes? What a strong word. Right now, American sailors and officers are doing war crimes every week in the Caribbean, shooting at boaters. They are boasting about it and showing it on social media. Zero reaction. But you are more concerned
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by Arodex 5d ago
He's now spent years and is looking at spending the rest of his life in Russia.
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by Arodex 5d ago
I deeply hate Noam Chomsky for his hypocrisy, but his 80's analysis that the press as a business can't do its job is profoundly right. It got much worse since then.
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by Arodex 5d ago
>The billionaire involved didn't anticipate the fury from the authorities Proving again that the billionaire class is more lucky than smart, and has now more money than sense.
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by Arodex 5d ago
Execution? A few years of imprisonment at worst. Trump has pardoned worse people (the guy from SilkRoad for instance). Russia may execute him anytime though. And his family. Easy to pretend he was killed by an Ukrainian bombing.
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by Arodex 5d ago
Sorry, but is Russia or the USA the one most likely to kill Snowden? Oh, yeah, it isn't Russia, because Snowden avoids saying things that could trigger his KGB handlers to disappear him... Like denouncing a genocidal war of aggression
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by Arodex 5d ago
Is Snowden able to talk freely in Russia?
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by Arodex 5d ago
Is Snowden... free, in Russia? Is he, really? Between his constant KGB handlers and the Ukrainian bombings?
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by Arodex 7d ago
>That doesn't exist. The very act of taking hundreds of photos will give anybody a clue. You have a very limited experience of life. Not only does it exist, it is even the majority.
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by Arodex 8d ago
Yes, Fuji tries to cover all use cases and user demands. But the one getting increasingly successful is the pure analog one: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/f... https://www.d
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by Arodex 8d ago
Look at the iPhone photography awards: https://ippawards.com/winners/showcase How many of these pictures do you think were just a lucky shot by someone clueless about photography just shooting hundreds of photos? How m
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by Arodex 8d ago
I am sure the tourist can take hundreds or thousands of photos, and have every single one of them turn out wrong. It's not as if he was covering every combination possible of exposition, composition, depth of field, shutter speed etc.
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by Arodex 8d ago
Once upon a time, in Switzerland, there was a "chronometry contest" putting the best watchmakers of Switzerland against each other to make the most accurate mechanical watch and have it certified by the observatory of Neuchâtel (o
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by Arodex 8d ago
And how do you get a person able to nail "that one shot" when the moment is fleeting? Your "tourist" is unable to do it, because he never put any deliberate practice in photography. Incidentally, analog film photography
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by Arodex 8d ago
This article should be pinned at the top of HN for a whole year, as a warning.
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by Arodex 8d ago
Then why did the USA sabotaged every attempt at a European army? The answer is because you twist American President words: they want Europe to "invest" more in its defense, but stay subversient to the US, not take more "respo
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by Arodex 9d ago
You call it globalism, when it is in practice having good trade relations. And the opposite case is also a quick way to degenerate cases: if Canada devalued cooperation, what is the argument for provinces to not do the same? And thus it wou
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by Arodex 9d ago
Haven't you heard that thanks to Trump and the Republicans, the start-stop engines are now banned and gas stoves are back? Have you heard the cries of joy every time this has been mentioned in Republican rallies?
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by Arodex 9d ago
This is an asinine decision that essentially makes vote buying totally legal. We see this trick with the recent Supreme Court decisions that essentially make racial gerrymandering legal again by just making the crime impossible to prove by
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by Arodex 9d ago
>Iran is the source for the Islamic justification for suicide bombing (suicide is forbidden in the Quran and thus 'innovation' was needed to justify it). That alone puts immense amounts of blood on their hands. They invented th
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by Arodex 10d ago
What counterpoint is that? The human saying "I am in pain" may feel pain, or may not and be just stringing together words. The AI can only string together words. It has none of the organs to feel pain. It never had. It has always
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by Arodex 10d ago
If a LLM says "I am in pain", is it just stringing together words or is it feeling pain? Does pain exist for a being that never felt any kind of physical pain, never had any pain receptors? There are humans who don't have any
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by Arodex 12d ago
Oportet ministros manus lavare antequam latrinam relinquent.
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by Arodex 13d ago
He is literally doing the "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders" bit but without any irony.
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by Arodex 13d ago
Because they reflect their creators' values.
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by Arodex 13d ago
>One conference speaker, Grindr CEO George Arison, told the BBC he believed this week's comments from Coxon and others were indicative of an "anti-civilisational worldview at Anthropic". >He called them "dangerous&
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by Arodex 15d ago
>Judge the current US policy by the current US. Then it is obvious we need to preemptively nuke the USA right now.
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by Arodex 15d ago
It gave demoralized soldiers an excuse to flee rather than fight. Nobody was going to question the reprieve offered by an order to retreat, even fake.
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by Arodex 15d ago
What good has done his pardon? Was it done out of policy, or just because Ulbricht paid for it with his hidden stash of crypto? Is trying to buy hitmen to assassinate someone something that Ulbricht regrets and will never try again? (It is

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