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by LPTS 18y ago
Why don't you buy that?
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by LPTS 18y ago
Yeah. I remember way back in the day being on psychedelic mushrooms once, walking through the woods, and talking to Buddha, who had appeared in a rock wall in a tunnel I walked past. Then I was like "I just saw Buddha, I should say hi and
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by LPTS 18y ago
Leary was a clown. A holy fool (maybe). But a clown none the less. He did lasting damage to our ability to unlock the potential in psychedelics with his antics, and his more extravagant ideas cloud what we can actually learn from psyched
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by LPTS 18y ago
Yes and no. I don't claim to know the answer to the hard question of consciousness. But, I think no one else does either. Even if we did have an answer I doubt its communicable. I do think my understanding of consciousness is deeper the
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by LPTS 18y ago
I think they are hurtful insofar as these immortality fantasies stop people from dealing with death in a less deluded way. But, on the other hand, many technology/science/Math visionaries have been driven by mythic kind of visions. Newton,
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by LPTS 18y ago
The day my family tries to make me watch a detailed replay of their vacation to Buttfuck, Ohio on google maps is the day I burn all my technology and try to live with the Amish. Giving this to the people who actually use it is like giving a
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by LPTS 18y ago
When I say "facebook apps are to iPhone apps as circle jerks are to orgies" I'm not actually saying iphone apps are orgies. Shortly after people acquired the capacity to represent objects with words, they acquired a higher order of symboli
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by LPTS 18y ago
I typed this comment on iPhone while I was waiting in line and lost it to a dead link. So I retype it. No you misunderstand the level I am speaking to. I know I exist before I know anything else. A prerequisite for existence is DNA, beca
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by LPTS 18y ago
Um. Duh. Is this a surprise to anyone? Really? There are really otherwise bright people who think facebook apps are going to be bigger then iphone apps? Really? This is like saying dark blue is a darker blue then light blue. OF COURS
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by LPTS 18y ago
Definitely. Hofstadter, Jack Kornfeld, VS Ramachandran, Alan Watts (at times) (not to start political debate, but Barack Obama) And for music (what the hell) Phillip Glass, Squarepusher, Tool, Bach, almost any sort of gamelan music, or musi
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by LPTS 18y ago
His critique of Kurzweil as exceptionally afraid of dying and that distorting his scientific validity is spot on. Kurzweil is rigid in exactly the same way as a religious person who believes his body literally will live forever. He just i
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by LPTS 18y ago
I recall reading that Hofstadter said (loosely) GEB was taken more as a collection of neat things, than the coherent thesis about identity. I would personally recommend reading I Am A Strange Loop, and then GEB if intrigued. This way, you
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by LPTS 18y ago
What a crappy interviewer. The first question reveals the interviewer doesn't know Hofstadter from a hole in the ground. Such a shame a great mind like Hofstadter is subjected to these awful questions. Here's an idea. If you haven't read
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by LPTS 18y ago
Read the parent comments
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by LPTS 18y ago
Dude Larry and Sergey can totally hire psychopaths to deal with the business end. They don't have to drown puppies themselves. They have a whole hr department to profiling and recruiting the best puppy murders. That way, the google gods
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by LPTS 18y ago
If you are going to kill a puppy for no good reason, drowning is a relatively humane way to do it. Once you're at the killing a puppy for fun stage in your decisionmaking, most of the fucked up has already happened. Drowning doesn't make
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by LPTS 18y ago
I don't see why we should consider the evolution of DNA to be unlikely. We have increadible statistical evidence it isn't. Chance you evolved in a universe you observe: 100% Chance you evolved in a universe you dont: 0% Given: I exist. T
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by LPTS 18y ago
I think Godel's Incompleteness Theorm implies the machines can't grok the code they are made from. I'm not sure though.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Post-Humans don't want to live forever. They are capable of detatching themselves from their egos and accepting death. This kurzweil guy is rocking the same fear of death vibe (a prehuman drive for survival) that keep most traditionally re
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by LPTS 18y ago
Im a fan of the ironic downvote personally. Its hilarious if you have the right sense of humor. It makes me almost pee myself laughing. I don't understand why we shouldn't be hacking the downvote system. This is supposed to be hacker new
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by LPTS 18y ago
If someone says "People should downvote to express disagreement." and I disagree with them should I downvote them?
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by LPTS 18y ago
Do you really care that much about your karma here? Just ignore it, it's just a number. It's not a video game. Obviously, the most interesting, useful comments are often going to be controversial. In cases where people downvote stuff the
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by LPTS 18y ago
Of course, if people start building poker bots, then the real money is in finding which players are actually poker bots, reverse engineering their algorithms from their play, and making a counter-bot to automatically drain money from the fi
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by LPTS 18y ago
You are presenting a false dichotomy. A professional is not going to stop you from grieving in whatever modality feels right to you, while helping you identify emotions, process them, and dealing with what unique challenges come up. You ca
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by LPTS 18y ago
Google the guy who wrote the article. Hes a fucktard. Its called manipulating stock prices. That is all. No its not. There is a manipulation technique here, the same kind of shit politicians pull, where if you are considering the quest
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by LPTS 18y ago
"I'd hesitate to advise someone to be debriefed by a professional. For all their training, empathy, my thoughts & feelings are my own. Not to be dissected, diagnosed and cataloged." That's an archaic attitude towards psychology. A train
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by LPTS 18y ago
The iPhone is the future of UI. Almost anything we need to interact with to use could beneficially offload UI and display features to the iPhone and be better for it. The internet is a piece of the puzzle, but the UI innovation allows it's
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by LPTS 18y ago
It was an extract from the south park where stan, kyle, and cartman join the david blaine cult and kyle wants to leave, and the shaved head cult people say something almost exactly like that.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Wrong. Tell them you are deaf and can't use voice minutes (because you are friggin deaf) and they'll sell you a stand alone data plan.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Looks good to me. I'm excited about that. Just what my app needed.

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