MrMcCall

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The easiest thing for a truly evil person to do is lie. They lie about being good, first and foremost. That most people are just a bunch of willfully ignorant rubes works very well for them, unfortunately.
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Without wokeness, Trump et al would've already steamrolled us. Being woke is to be aware of inequalities between ethnicities, religions, and classes. Being woke is to be aware of the fact that the planet is overheating due to our unfet
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The primary problem, my brother, is our valuing the world's resources in terms of money.
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Beware! That website makes sounds :-|
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Well, for one, he can't film himself installing, e.g., fake artworks in the greatest museums in the world, as he did. And, for those who don't know, he is from Bristol, England, the home of the band Massive Attack. I've been
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The Great(est) Command(ment) is to love God with all our being, and then to love our neighbors as ourself, not more, not less. Being kind, generous, forgiving, helpful, and compassionate are some of the ways we can love people, and should
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You have gotten to the heart of the matter. Well done, indeed, sir/madam!
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I'm curious if anyone has considered how to use modern electronic components to replace the old "copper coil"-based mechanisms and such that that fine gentleman uses to replace the old parts? I understand he is basically doin
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You are correct. The reason is that neither has any compassion, to this very day. OTOH, either system could be structured to be based upon compassion, if the people in charge made the choice to do so. Any human system could be altered to in
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Evil has many faces, many motives, many methods. Compassion is the cure, but not passive compassion, active ass-kicking WWII-Allies-style compassion.
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This is a natural product of a system that prioritizes profit over compassion. The CEOs would rather waste food than not make a few pennies profit on it.
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The way to defeat 'famine mode' is to exercise anyway. That's how I lost weight to wrestle at my minimum. It's tortuous, for sure, but vigorous exercise can raise your metabolism for IIRC 24hrs. Thank God, they don'
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> You need at least one grumpy fucker. "Now we're two." --Batman
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"I don't want to lose this feeling." I loved that album in my youth. Now that I have kids in their teens, Clapton isn't much our style, preferring Pink Floyd and Massive Attack, lately. It's great not having really
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
An alcoholic must stop drinking, or they will die from it. The solution is to stop drinking. How to succeed in making that solution happen is a separate problem, but the first step in solving any and every problem is identifying its root
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But the conclusions are bang-on correct vis a vis human achievement. We can choose to be humble craftspeople that know we can always improve some more, especially as a software engineer; such humility naturally leads to undervaluing our exp
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"Predicting the next word" is never going to facilitate modifying complex code in any way that won't be a disaster. Creating sensible, useful, comprehensive tests requires a comprehensive understanding of the code -- there is
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> imo products are getting worse, but that decline started before GPT Yes, and it's not going to change until the motivations and methodologies that drive the corporation change. All these LLMs are just reinforcing their MBA mentali
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I'd say no really "very smart people" agree with that idiocy in the first place. Most people just believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth, and what they want to believe is usually primarily due to what they
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> we have no clue how to organize people, or how we could put modern technology to good use But I do, friend, I really do. It all starts with compassion; profit-motive being prioritized over compassion is the source of all this world&#x2
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My kids and I have watched tons of documentaries over the years. One they (and I) enjoyed very much was "World's Toughest Fixes", which was hosted by a rigger named Sean Riley. In episode (s1e6) he helps a crack team of guys
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Dishonesty is rampant in our world. That's why Merlin says honesty is the most important virtue.
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It's like the military says, "We can't make you do something, but we can make you wish you had." People understanding the negative consequences of potential actions is a bedrock of society. If a person is not amenable to
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Yes, indeed. Age restrictions definitely lessen the harms young people can easily get into.
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Embracing compassion as a way of interacting with our world's peoples is not superstition, my friend, yet you will find very little of it in mainstream fiction, the mainstream media, or even the popular media (e.g. Joe Rogan). The peop
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We must first tune our own sense of truth and compassion to point our moral compass in the right direction. My parents have fallen victim to FoxNews' cult of dishonesty and fascism. I am at their service, but they don't want the t
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It hallucinated less, that's for sure, because we know exactly how it works, though I doubt any of the AoC's challenges were suitable for its 1980s logic (that's when I typed in a magazine's C64 version). "There&#x2

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