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Kaiyou
7y ago
I suspect it won't be earlier than in a few centuries.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
This conversation is now 30 years old. Still, so far, so good.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
All these doomsday messages! And they have zero impact on the quality of my life. I wonder why nobody cares. \s
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Kaiyou
7y ago
I just added it to keybindings in qutebrowser.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
This level of integration is possible with another browser and normal youtube-dl: qutebrowser.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
It's not science if you don't reliably get the same output if you provide the same input. It's useful, sure. But it's not science.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Depending on IQ certain skills are impossible to attain, is what I was trying to say. It's hard to imagine this reality unless directly confronted with such people and witnessing their inability to learn the simplest of things.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Throwing education and job opportunities at low IQ people won't produce useful results, unfortunately.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
At some point someone has to write it, like school textbooks. After that your just looking at distributing that knowledge. The replacement for search engines solves the latter problem.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Neither would the replacement for search engines.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Because most humans behave sufficiently different from each other. Even if you experiment on a subset of humans and get knowledge about this subset, a different subset of humans could react completely different. It's so bad that even t
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Kaiyou
7y ago
But were the things that were learned useful? I also learned a whole lot in school. It's just that this knowledge had nearly no value.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Teachers teaching the same class every year can't use this as an excuse either.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
You don't need to. It's not a problem to ask and answer the same question repeatedly. School never had a problem with that.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
You ask a question (possibly on Stack-Something) and don't get ridiculed for not using Google, since you live in a world where search engines don't exist.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Why do we need billions of people on this planet? Wouldn't it be better to cut down our population a bit? Earth cannot sustain infinite people..
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Kaiyou
7y ago
..so what's the purpose humans serve?
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Stress is very different from physical things, like carrying heavy stuff or getting beaten. Pain, you just have to endure once and then it will slowly go away until the next time you receive pain. Stress accumulates. Forever. Getting strong
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Pretty much the only value you get from formal education is the paper you receive at the end. It's all pretend play nowadays. Teachers pretend to still teach and students pretend that school is important and since everone keeps up the
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Why does the method of killing make a difference to you?
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Why do you think they must serve a purpose?
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Who is "we"? I'm certain I had nothing to do with this.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
I never really understood what looks to me like an obsession with preserving endangered species. Maybe it does have to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity_(social_psychology)
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Kaiyou
7y ago
You don't remember Nintendo showing everyone on E3 a few years back the new Zelda game and then when it was released as Breath of the Wild it looked far inferior to that? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmLfhhgXsAMMwbp
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Kaiyou
7y ago
I'd prefer that behavior.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
Not true. Getting informed is a full time job.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
How do you propose to force people to inform themselves?
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Kaiyou
7y ago
It's not our job to think of a business model for them. If it doesn't work, then they should change jobs.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
If possible, I'd like to completely get rid of everything xcf inside gimp. It's useless overhead to me.
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Kaiyou
7y ago
I can't think of a single use case for layers, to be honest. They only ever annoyed me, because I had to switch layers for editing some things that were automatically their own layer, like text.
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