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by akomtu 3y ago
I'd rephrase the GP's point slightly: the modern states are mutating right now from a sort of giant "octopus" with a few blunt "tentacles" such as police and the military, into a giant "centipede" wit
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by akomtu 3y ago
Which EU? The parliament or the commisars?
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The right actions are ought to be complemented with the right knowledge. Iamblichus has many worthy works.
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All that hinges on a functioning antenna.
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A more boring way to say this is that "text samples in the Internet that use 'stressful' language are more coherent". Telling GPT4 to act as a "stressed historian" simply selects (or prefers) text samples that
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by akomtu 3y ago
Youtube is like a drug dealer that sells a mix or sugar, opium and poison in 8:1:1 proportion. Sugar is the flashy junk that gives an illusion of fulfillment. Opium is the behavioral tricks that rattle the primitive emotions and desires. Th
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by akomtu 3y ago
"Autists ignore the herd mentality" in other words.
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by akomtu 3y ago
What's being discussed here looks a lot like one of the three negative individualisation types: by striving to be better than peers in order to look down upon them, by imitating the greater ones for personal gain, and by the fear of th
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by akomtu 3y ago
Boredom is the poor vision of the mind's eye. When an average mind looks at a tree, the mental image in it is a blurry caricature of that tree, it lacks details and is completely uninteresting to look at, so the mind lazily wanders to
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by akomtu 3y ago
In the dzogchen buddhism, there is an excercise that amounts to a voluntary 2-month long solitary confinement in a small room with no light and sounds. The perception of time melts down, hallucinacions occurs, but the trainee is prepared t
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's well captured in the Feynman's quote: "shut up and calculate". When a typical western scientist sees a flatworm regrowing itself from pieces, his mind thinks of the mechanics of this process and little else. Someo
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by akomtu 3y ago
The cultish smell comes from the author's nihilism, which doesn't mean he was wrong. It's similar to how the cult of scientology started: a psychiatrist had discovered a form of self-hypnosis that appeared very efficient to s
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by akomtu 3y ago
We're seeing how the west is discovering those "chakras" and unlike the east, where the understanding of this topic is very broad and fuzzy, due to lack of experience in most cases, the west will develop a very narrow, but ve
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A modern inclusion preacher begins his sermon with excluding all the groups he doesn't like, which are numerous.
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The trailing 0 char?
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Note how the authors avoid the word "blacklisted" while talking about censorship devices close to the ISP users: their own censorship module sits right in their brains.
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And there are already priests of this metascale n-dimensional matrix cult. Their preachers are full of mathy words and sound very convincing to laymen.
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This is the modern version of stone age savages worshipping a rock.
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"The only moral rules that might exist in the phase are those that the practitioner establishes. If desired, complete, unhindered freedom may be experienced." I'm confused. Do the authors think this &quot
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I'm sure if that car had a sticker on it saying where Charles 3 belongs, the police would have suddenly gained access to those cameras and tracked the car with sub-millimeter precision.
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At first, it was an ear-piece with AI assist that some politicians used to make themselves more informed. Shortly after most politicians had to use this AI assist to keep up with the competition. And then nobody could tell who runs the stat
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by akomtu 3y ago
These "don't be evil" and "do the right thing" must have been taken from the well known buddhist story: "When a disciple approached the buddha, he asked to explain buddhism in one verse; the buddha answered: st
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's the other way around: Internet was a tool to share knowledge and now it's turning into a tool of oppression.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada
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The King doesn't need to get his hands dirty in implementing policies: he has prime minister for that. What the king does is he vetoes policies he doesn't like, without explaining his reasons to PM. So I'd reframe your questi
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"The current King of Canada is Charles III, who has reigned since 8 September 2022." That's what's different between USA and Canada.
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"Pigeon Shits on Windshield, as Deer Crossing, an Old Junkie Says" - journalism in 2023.
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Those "postmodernists" are truthphobes, using their own lingo.
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Indeed, for some time, the natives had the cult of Tek Thuk, who demanded its worshippers to sacrifice more and more of their attention, but it was the arch-demon Ae-eye, invoked in XXI century, that reduced the entire society to animals. T
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Centuries later, archeologists will be puzzled by the black mirrors that the past civilization was so attached to. They will notice that nearly everyone had a small mirror clutched in his hands, even in the moment of death. The few scriptur

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