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by aschearer 3y ago
Don’t waste your life. Read Wittgenstein, specifically Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. There’s no value in getting lost in unintelligible questions. They’re literally nonsense. Focus on what can be known. For the rest you have feelings. Int
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by aschearer 3y ago
Yes, exactly that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by aschearer 3y ago
Putting my money on the moon.
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by aschearer 3y ago
> Proposition 12 bans selling products derived from sows that don’t have at least 24 square feet of space and the ability to stand up and turn around in their pens. Good! It's a start.
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by aschearer 3y ago
Some things never change.
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by aschearer 3y ago
You could say they were just following orders.
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by aschearer 3y ago
You are part of the problem.
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by aschearer 3y ago
Whatever needs to be done must be done during the budgeting process. Not when the check comes due. Congress wrote the check years ago. Now it's time to pay. If Republicans truly want a more balanced budget they should pursue it then. O
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by aschearer 3y ago
Nailed it. You got me thinking with your "two ideologies"... I think it's more accurate to say, there are different modes of communication with different goals. At a minimum, there's sharing information, entertaining, so
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by aschearer 3y ago
One of the best decisions I ever made. It wasn't any one reason that convinced me but several. Like a braid. Not an easy decision nor without consequences, but hard to imagine life before or that it could be any other way. For me, it&#
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by aschearer 3y ago
Nice going, John! Role model material. What is your secret?
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by aschearer 3y ago
LOL what? Where did all this "lords and peasant" nonsense come from? Come back to reality, Eli.
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by aschearer 3y ago
How puritanical. Do you look down on everyone or just unhealthy people?
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by aschearer 3y ago
People want pills or miracle diets. People don't want lifestyle changes. They're busy, stressed, strapped for cash, and anyway they like the standard American diet. Collectively, we could shape our environment so healthy decisions
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by aschearer 3y ago
Reading through these comments, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. From the Daily Beast: >Clarence Thomas’ mom is definitely still living in a house bought by a Texas billionaire who bankrolled luxury trips for her Supreme Court ju
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by aschearer 3y ago
Free speech activists, this is the moment you've been waiting for. Government literally suppressing speech it disapproves of. Walk that talk!
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by aschearer 3y ago
Good luck in your search, Ammar. Thanks for sharing.
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by aschearer 4y ago
And sometimes the days are short, too. Nice list, though. Happy birthday and good luck on your journey, Sam.
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by aschearer 4y ago
Something I've struggled with and have seen often is engineer-types drawn to game development who lose themselves in code, tech, and getting it "just right." It's super important to be clear about _why_ you makes games.
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by aschearer 4y ago
Perhaps you're right. Perhaps I am being to literal in my comparison, but I see tension when I compare craftspeople of the past / other industries with our own. Instead of honing our skills under an expert for many years, we swap
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by aschearer 4y ago
Good post. There's an interesting tension in software between the cynical and idealistic. On the one hand, there's the notion that writing software is a craft and that what we're doing has an aesthetic component. On the other
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by aschearer 4y ago
Because you can't help yourself but make games. As if you could stop. It's unrequited love.
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by aschearer 4y ago
> It's important to keep in mind that most of us sit not far from the middle of the bell curve. Most people are, by mathematical definition, close to average, as skill distribution is not from Taleb’s Extremistan. Is this true? Why
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by aschearer 4y ago
To what extent is our intelligence a consequence of our bodies, evolution? Would a computer have intuition? Fight or flight responses? As a species, we're still debating which mammals are "intelligent" and they share most of
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by aschearer 4y ago
This is just an ad... Anyway, I like journaling. I don't see a reason to reduce it to an either/or activity. I use Obsidian and "jumble" my practical note taking with my introspective stuff. Plus it shows me upcoming bir
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by aschearer 4y ago
What if machine intelligence doesn’t look like human intelligence? Say it looks like insect intelligence? Will we be able to recognize it? To what extent is our intelligence a consequence of our bodies, evolution? Would a computer have intu
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by aschearer 4y ago
"The future is here it's just unevenly distributed."
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by aschearer 4y ago
At least if Kurzweil has anything to say about it!
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by aschearer 4y ago
Speaking personally, oftentimes I truly want something but am afraid to fail and look stupid in the process. Laboring under a false sense of indifference is terrible, though. It’s inauthentic. Living like that is uncomfortable. So for the a
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by aschearer 4y ago
Always fun to be reminded that the world I take for granted largely didn't exist several generations ago. Bit scarier to imagine how the same process will play out over my lifetime.

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