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by __B_B__ 4y ago
It's interesting to see this drive, for transplanting one's consciousness or whatever into another medium according to the notion that doing so would constitute some form of immortality and that thereby something desirable would b
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Well, here's your answer OP.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
This modern 15 minute city notion has always struck me as an attempt to steal the branding of the old European walkable cities which went down the tubes with industrialization. A 15 minute space is all well and good, as long it's not j
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
You could run the same experiment with any fermented drink, presumably.
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Environmentalism in One Country(palladiummag.com)
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
"You're just so backward, and it's just so IMPORTAAAANT that you do X."
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
It's always the same meme article. Oh there's all these jobs but the young people are just so lazy and entitled and unskilled and rebellious.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
I'm sorry Mr. "Deceptive". I don't feel comfortable providing my service to you, that service being an answer to your question, without first knowing where you live and what your birth name is, at the very least. You&#x2
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Yeah it's a great post, except for the part where he counter signals himself while trying to have his cake and eat it too. Then again, I guess it was written a couple of years before all the rebels got shit tested by lockdowns.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Which one?
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
All "shared fictions" are going to be supported by their affiliated versions of the four P's. Politicians, Police, Professors, Press.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
In the darkness and silence of the void, no one can tickle my neurotic anxieties, or at least I'll believe so in the moments before they issue forth again from the only thing left.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Would you consider 100 trillion dollars spent on a research base 30 millions miles away which is going to tell you how to make better insulation and grooved pavement to be wisely invested?
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Books are literature, literature is language, language is thought, thoughts can be beliefs, and beliefs are what inform actions. Therefore, if you want to control the actions people take, control what books they have access to.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
I don't think anyone wants extinction, but they'll get it anyway and that's what makes Harari, all the multiplications and the imagined monopolies delusional. I think people are in fact full of dejection, disappointment and s
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
What's knowledge? "Justified, true belief"? Belief me and my friends really, really believe in, with some trial and error mixed in? How self serving and unsatisfying and prone to disaster, given critical mass. I'm not re
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Sure. Reverse engineering the fall of man basically. But again to the question of why. Why be so nihilistic about life and the world that you want to do it over? Why believe that such a thing is achievable through some technological mechani
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
I'm not really interested in isolated political incidents but rather how they fit into trends across long spans of time. This dichotomy of collective vs individual is also very interesting to me, and through that interest I've det
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
As long as we're talking about bodily autonomy, biometric surveillance and hypocrisy I'd like to quote Robert Scaer. "Fetuses confronted with an amniocentesis needle invading the uterus exhibit defensive motor behavior. Intra
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Utopians like Harari don't actually have any ideas about even the most fundamental questions like the nature of consciousness, the nature of free will, whether it is right to force someone to do something they don't want to do, or
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
So is this an implicit admission that what passes for "politics" is not conducive to a functioning organization?
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Some people are just dazzled by the promise of being able to manipulate reality in whatever variety of ways they can imagine using comparatively little effort, and just don't think any deeper into it than how much they might personally
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Ah yes, ye olde genetically engineered crop product TM. Don't worry boys. Just plug the genomes into the database and the computer will fix it. Guys, Victor Glushkov told me that if we just plug the economy numbers in, the computer wil
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
You're assuming "the world" and "society" to be harmonious concepts but in the worldview of the author they're not, and therefore, for him, there is no contradiction. You will see it in the way he describes wor
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
If the only reason to do anything is because other people think you should, you better hope they have empathy for you.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Well let me put it to you this way. He whines about proof of work, as is popular to do. Proof of work means to expend resources to produce a true statement such that the cost of lying is prohibitive, because producing an accurate record is
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
And?
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
It's the logical conclusion derived from the conceptualization of humans as programmable machines and education as their programming. After one accepts that belief, the issue merely becomes one of economy. Managing costs.
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Well, you're seeing one of the problems with systems based on consensus expressed in grocery prices now. Refusal to adopt the faith for any reason increases harm exponentially. The notion that, if everyone just went along with things,
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by __B_B__ 4y ago
Whining about proof of work. Check. Whining about ransomware. Check. Ponzi scheme. Check. What an organic article and opinion.

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