Jasamba

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   On India's largest untapped resource(medium.com)

   3 points by Jasamba 10y ago|0 comments
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   The Artist and the Machine, Michael Nielson(michaelnielsen.org)

   1 points by Jasamba 10y ago|0 comments
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   by Jasamba 10y ago

   Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. This is easily the most moved I have been by a book that was equal parts a theory of intelligence and equal parts a realization of how important of an ingredient intelligence is to enable one to be awa
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   by Jasamba 10y ago

   Suggestion of 'Spirited Away' based purely on my ratings of X-Men and Saw? Spot on! I would love to read about the algorithm you guys are using (in an upcoming paper perhaps? :))
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   A HitchHikers Guide to the Islamic State(foreignpolicy.com)

   1 points by Jasamba 10y ago|0 comments
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   India pushes for return of its “Kohinoor” Diamond Back from Britain(nytimes.com)

   1 points by Jasamba 10y ago|0 comments
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   by Jasamba 10y ago

   I agree with you and you are right, the world games are amazing and fun, but how many of us are aware that these are just games? And what happens when one ties their human worth to 'winning' these said games in succession (cause o
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   by Jasamba 10y ago

   Thanks! Loved the songs you had linked, esp the drums. Deschooling sounds very close to what I assume will be required to cope and thrive with nihilism. We are given some very shallow arguments to 'keep going' mainly centering aro
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   by Jasamba 10y ago

   I like that you linked a journal article, thanks! And SMBC is just great, I'm constantly surprised that the creator started out with a literature degree, and ended up writing such relatable jokes for the academic community. Entropy max
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Hum, I think I do interpret it in a positive way most of the time, though there are other times, esp when I see otherwise fine people struggling to get this badge or that validation(plus comparing it to other people's), and beating the
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Yeah, I didn't expect it to blow up that much, and that line left me feeling a bit too vulnerable than I would've liked to be.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Thanks for the links! I guess I'd like to know because without it, there's not much else I can do except wake up/eat/take s shit/go back to sleep. We are even able to have this conversation because someone somewhere
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    The point is that I am an unwilling participant in an evolutionary unfolding of life that I could not even make sense of until Mr. Darwin figured it out. Isn't it absurd that you are a critical thinking being, thrown onto a random plan
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I like the concept that I have been given 'time' to act as I please. But am I acting as I please, because for the most part I am reacting to an ensemble of random events.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I assume we are so used to living without meaning, that to simulate a world where there was inherent meaning seems a hyperbole. Yet if I could attempt to name it, perhaps it would be a reality with defined endpoints, and where we were not u
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Is it? (real). Last time I checked, this article was right next to the "Are we living in a Computer Simulation", and it's not been written by random depressed people (like me) either.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I swear there was no pot involved whatsoever, though if there had been, I'm certain you'd have been spared of the annoyance of yet another 'Why am I here/Everything is meaningless' piece.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Glad I could do that. I wrote it in a pretty down state, so it pretty much wrote itself albeit the imperfect language and structure.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I love you for this, the first book is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! - author
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Thanks, I started them at some point, but had too much at hand to really get into them. I basically wrote the article in under 15 minutes in a mildly depressive/ruminative state. Apart from the 'Gah, Get over it!', I now have
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Or Lesbains? As the author, I guess I just wanted to go for the more relatable situation.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    That was a point I wanted to dwell upon. Awareness while committing the rituals indeed changes the game but that would be incomplete without including free will and the concept of consciousness (giving rise to awareness) in general. But the
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I started reading that one once. It's been 9 years..
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    But what's the poooiint..
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, will check it out. I have been looking for a different answer than the usual 'yeah life is meaningless, which is why you make the most of it'. Hopefully something more nuanced and existential crisis reli
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Female monkeys can be conscious of the ongoing situation you know ;), plus it could be the other way round as well if not for the centuries of 'I is man, so I is provide for family' prevailing expectations.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Agreed, but then that's literature's way of saying anything, the more prolix the better.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    I agree and thank you for the feedback, for its defense, this was barely the first draft and really skims over the thoughts and follows them as they arrive. It is by no means a revised and generalized piece.
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    by Jasamba 10y ago

    Author here, half an adult i'd say. It was meant to be a stream of consciousness unloading exercise, my first one at that. I have no idea why people are upvoting it.
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    Trump Supporters lie on one side of the two Human Morality Groups(siderea.livejournal.com)

    3 points by Jasamba 11y ago|0 comments