PravlageTiem

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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Played WoW for years. Grinded most of my members to rank 14. Ran a PvP guild that lost three times in 6 months during this grind. Tricked the entire horde to split forces in AV with 3 deep operatives, allowing Alliance to engage with the h
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Did the pixels offend you? Block everyone who disagrees with you. Now you know why no one you knew voted for Trump. If the left is obsessed with turning their entire belief system into a remake of the 1930s radio model (One story teller al
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
You're on to something!
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
When most people talk about "politics" what they really mean is they want to recite talking points told to them from their favorite dying old media echo chamber. Reddit went full political and I left. The chans went full political
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
I gotta say, watching the political ideology that doubled down on postmodernism massively backpedal on the "truth is relative" meme is endlessly entertaining.
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
No one is making irrational judgments based off of the amount of photons that are being reflected. Many Indians can't reflect many photons, either. Police aren't shooting them. Let's see if you can make the leap into what is
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
So you're saying it's okay to be prejudiced against people because of religious beliefs? Like... say... Judaism, for example?
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Keep your weird contained to your monoliths and stop trying to colonize JavaScript!
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
The arguments are so bitter because the stakes are so low.
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
To kill two birds with one stone, as soon as animals demonstrate something more akin to tribal-level human behavior of religious worship (the grand fusion of self, environment, social, and mystery into the realm of higher powers that must b
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
I'm being downvoted because my comment spat in the face of those who think general artificial intelligence automatically implies some superior Nietzschean post-human that is qualified to run the perfect communist utopia since it no lo
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
I provided the very best and most recent research for the absurd position that animals supposedly have their own animal gods, attend regular communal worshipping ceremonies, engage in animal religious ritual, and demonstrate religious behav
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
What is monotheism but a comprehensive collection of thought experiments regarding the behavior of a Bronze Age singularity? :D
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
I didn't say "intelligent". I said "AI", as in "artificial intelligence" which implies a simulation of human intelligence. Machine processes already exist that demonstrate, say, ant-like intelligence.
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
The best case for animals demonstrating religious behavior (which is fundamentally different than believing in a god, mind you) is from a very convoluted interpretation of a food coma. http://bigthink.com/videos/can-ani
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Believing in a god is unique to the human species. No other animal does this. Thus, if you want full and complete simulation of human intelligence, this is the ultimate benchmark to test against. Furthermore, the purpose of this thought e
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Being made to believe in a god isn't the same as believing in one. Silicon Valley thinks AI is not an epistemological problem, as if neurons can be perfectly simulated atomically and that all intelligence processes can be categorized a
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
A machine process qualifies as AI if it believes in a god. EDIT: I see the nuances of epistemological problems are lost to HN and knee-jerk culture war atheism still rules supreme.
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Your model expects your child not to be attacked. The child was attacked. You suddenly have the energy for resynchronization so that your model can persist despite this exception.
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
I would argue that China, Japan, Korea, and other Buddhist-heavy nations have other cultural mechanisms to prompt one to remodel reality. Buddhist teachings make it very clear the desire is the source of suffering, and this axiom weaves it
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Western culture is so obsessed about suppressing anger at all costs. Like each person is a nuclear weapon that needs to be aggressively contained or else the entire fabric of civilization will collapse. Anger exists for a reason and it exi
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
It's not the others that cause cognitive dissonance. The dissonance is caused when your in-group AGREES with the others. Without an in-group, the others are just datum to digest and process. Without others, the in-group is just casual
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by PravlageTiem 10y ago
Your borderline autistic model of privilege is being used as club to justify systemic abuse from the same authoritarian forces you are attempting to describe with your faulty model. You should feel bad, but I know you won't.