Borrible

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by Borrible 3y ago
Since the computer is a friend to all of us, citizen, I hope you are not accusing it of malicious intent against us. Just to be sure you are not a traitor, it is in your interest to have this checked by the relevant authorities. Stay vigila
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by Borrible 3y ago
Skimming an Atlas Obscura article the day before yesterday and ordering the books 'Discovering Scarfolk' and 'The Scarfolk Annual' especially for the surveillance themed humor, I'm not surprised to find a post about
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by Borrible 3y ago
I'd be more interested in a W40K Lego.
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by Borrible 3y ago
The Future is Wild, and The Morel is a Harsh Mistress. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Hothouse Incidentially, ... or probably not ..., I'm reading The Fungus at the moment. https:&#x2
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by Borrible 3y ago
Successful Garage People https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11496136/
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Closing the accessibility gap to mental health treatment with a chatbot(nature.com)
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by Borrible 3y ago
The winner takes it all, until nothings left for him.
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by Borrible 3y ago
I'm more interested in what is simulated, why it is simulated and for what reasons the plug may be pulled. Simulation implies there is an operator of it with an intention for it. Even if it is only for his/her/its/whatev
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by Borrible 3y ago
At least in Western magic and mythology, doppelgangers have been harbingers of personal doom for centuries - so beware of your evil twin. Just saying, so that no one is surprised when they start to doubt themselves...
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by Borrible 3y ago
I wonder if any of them will ever be "realized". Well, as a real series, I mean.... Come to think of it, I suppose it's already happened?
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by Borrible 3y ago
I strongly suspect that strong, albeit invisible, hands of Honorable Gentlemen are at work in Italy. The further south, the more Honorable Society. The Covid-19 pandemic in particular was a good opportunity for healthy profits.
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by Borrible 3y ago
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I mean, that's what it was trained on, right?
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by Borrible 3y ago
Face it, in a sense ChatGPT is us all. At least it is some reduced average of human rambling in cyberspace. Speaking of faces in spaces, is there an equivalent to Eigenfaces in linguistics? I suggest Eigenbabbles. Yes, this post is self-ref
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by Borrible 3y ago
Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse" would have appeared in a completely different light with her as the lighthouse keeper instead of William Dafoe. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/
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by Borrible 3y ago
While we're at it, what happened to the Grinders? https://handwiki.org/wiki/Philosophy:Grinder_(biohacking)
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by Borrible 3y ago
Oh, come on, give life a chance, it can't always be me, me, me.
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by Borrible 3y ago
Absolutely! And if it really is a global extinction event at the moment, I can't wait to see what wonderful new variants will blossom from that tabula rasa in ten to twenty million years. Will they be less conscious or more, more or le
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by Borrible 3y ago
Talking about Pennsylvania coal mining, they already had experimented with mining under bodies of water in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_Mine_disaster It was only logical to fuel the research project in Cent
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by Borrible 3y ago
It's everywhere, they clearly were on to something out there.
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by Borrible 3y ago
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Purity Not exactly, but it fits the trope of Nightmare Fuel. Not to speak of, the setting is in Louisiana.
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by Borrible 3y ago
This reinforces my deep conviction that life will find a way, no matter what mischief we get up to. Even if it has to tap into its reserves...
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by Borrible 3y ago
As Marx once put it... "I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
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by Borrible 3y ago
You'll be even more shocked when you find out you're coworkers because an HR AI calculated you were a good team fit because of the same preferences. You think, that's just a joke? Just wait until you're married...
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by Borrible 3y ago
Slightly amused, I did some research and came across the case of Marion Zimmer Bradley, who once had to defend herself against the ghosts she herself had conjured. https://fanlore.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley_Fanficti
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by Borrible 3y ago
Demographics? https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/legal-and-political-magazin...
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by Borrible 3y ago
This reminds me of Hanna Arendt's 'Lying in Politics' https://archive.is/tzY2v "It is this fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point, and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with
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by Borrible 3y ago
I had exactly the same reaction as you. I thought it was a metaphor for decades. I think I read about it on Nautilus or Aeon around 2016/17, can't remember. When I am fully conscious, there is no inner eye for me, nothing. Sounds,
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by Borrible 3y ago
Summary by Chatty 4, so you don't need to read yesterday's word on the street. Saves time. Of course, it remains a significant challenge for Chatty 4 to make something intellectually insightful out of it. "Here's a summa
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by Borrible 3y ago
I have to read Schopenhauer's "The Art of Being Right" again. Hail Eris!All Hail Discordia! ΤΗΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΙ
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by Borrible 3y ago
Mother's Little Helpers, a Requiem for a Dream.

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