Borrible

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by Borrible 5y ago
Oh my God, yes. I barely remember it! http://web.archive.org/web/19971210215225/http://www.firebal... Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.
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by Borrible 5y ago
Ups, of course it's Thomas Metzinger. Sorry, a momentary lapse of reason. Ego-Game
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So, the underlying concept is not that decision under uncertainty is risky and people tend to shy away from it? Especially people that are trained to think long, hard and nuanced about problems before coming to a conclusion? Because their s
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by Borrible 5y ago
And there still is the German meta search engine, MetaGer. I already used it more than 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer https://metager.org/ It also has a TOR hidden service: http:&
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by Borrible 5y ago
Egon Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel - The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Basic Books 2009 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5895503-the-ego-tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9SPP
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by Borrible 5y ago
Le monde est peut-être un endroit étrange, mais il y a des endroits encore plus étranges... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law Merci beaucoup
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by Borrible 5y ago
The world is a really strange place... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan Thank you.
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by Borrible 5y ago
Blame on you. That happens, when you make your own language open source. They tinker and fork it without any shame.
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by Borrible 5y ago
The homology of God and Mammon is long known. They are both, at least for a lot of people, transcendend and abstract forces dictating human life. Over which they have no influence. And not just in our era [0] as Heinrich Heine did put it. [
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by Borrible 5y ago
So, regarding Excel, those bean counter guys from accounting in Sumer were onto something timeless? https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-sumerian-clay-cuneiform-... ? By the way,do you think anybody will pay that much fo
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by Borrible 5y ago
Brains that could 'predict' predators, and dangers in general, faster based on an 'educated' guess have obviously a higher survival rate. Or, to be precise, have a higher chance of making little copies of themselves afte
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by Borrible 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_garden
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Charcoal Crystal Garden(bizarrelabs.com)
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Correlating heatwaves and relative humidity with suicide(nature.com)
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by Borrible 5y ago
Is there a subgenre for PunkPunk or PurePunk? OriginalPunk? Can't find one on TVTropes.org. I guess Vivienne is to blame for that fashion ploy[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Westwood The morally mo
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by Borrible 5y ago
Gotcha.
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by Borrible 5y ago
Since it suits my addiction, I happily ignore probable problems of the study design and approve of it. Like Agent Dale Cooper[0] would have put it, that's a damn fine study. [0] https://www.eater.com/2017/5/18
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by Borrible 5y ago
No, not everything is for survival. There is no teleology. Some things survive, others not. Some things stay for a long time, some barely blink in existence before they're gone. The ego construct did survive so far for a few million ye
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by Borrible 5y ago
Don't worry. DEFCON 5. Everything is fine. Everything is under control. Or not...
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by Borrible 5y ago
Yes, but we're still on DEFCON 5.
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A little hint for contract researchers of the video game industry: Its regime would be more impressed with the finding, video games provide to strengthen the People's Republic of China's defense forces. It doesn't care for th
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I don't think that the origin of the problem is this or that social structure. I think that these structures bind it in one way or another to make this basic human condition bearable. Both for the individual and for society. But they d
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by Borrible 5y ago
The moment the mind, a mere tool for the survival of the body, declared itself extremely important. From then on, any imperfection means that death is lurking in the shadows. Entropy eats up everything. You can run away, but you can't
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by Borrible 5y ago
And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; ... Dylan Thomas 1933 https
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by Borrible 5y ago
Colour, the qualia[0] everybody thinks to have in front of his eyes. But it's just in his mind. Imagine such qualia, based on the sight organs of the Mantis shrimp[1] Do they have qualia? [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/
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by Borrible 5y ago
You own time? Not for long. One way or the other. Just wait until you're dust in the wind. It's a timeless experience.
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by Borrible 5y ago
I think they will need a whole lot of coders to get things going and hiding its ugly bowels swelling up. I'm building and maintaining 'self-service' BI apps every day since about 2011. It's profitable. So, the more, the
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by Borrible 5y ago
Well then, thank you for smoking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking_(novel)
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by Borrible 5y ago
And too often I think I'm much smarter then others. Or consider as smart what really is just wishful. https://mindmatters.ai/2020/08/in-what-ways-are-spiders-inte...
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So, at what point exactly becomes a motivation to do something intrinsic? The moment the 'I' forgets its origin and history and attributes it all to itself?

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