californiadreem

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by californiadreem 4y ago
"There's a secret cabal of beings that are making my life personally miserable" is already a common enough position that cyclically occurs in human history every hundred years or so that I don't think it's a fiction
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>Do I have a enough stuff in the local libraries to rebuild the civilization from scratch into the 80s? It's a university town, it shouldn't be a problem... and that's just one town. The issue with this type of thinking is
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I imagine that the simulation hypothesis is reversing the explanandum. Consciousness is already the simulation of the Universe. Asking if the universe is a simulation while using a simulation of the universe as your baseline creates a nec
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There's also a single mill in Scotland producing traditional peasemeal made from parched peas. Milled parched grain is also recognized currently as traditional foods in Swabia (musmehl), Tibet (tsampa), Mexico (pinole), North Africa (f
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I say this as someone with a passion for milling and experimental archeology: I imagine they had degraded teeth because of two factors: stone querns can deposit grit into the grist and unless you're manually sorting everything twice, i
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Disagreeing would require me to have a level of fixed perspective and permanent identity that I think you're assuming that I have.
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I don't think we disagree at all. The empire never ended, I guess.
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Humans deceiving humans via technology is a tale as old as time. Plato imagined human torch-bearers manipulating those chained in the cave. He didn't imagine machines doing it autonomously. Incarnate technology deceiving humans is a di
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I'm afraid we're looking in the wrong places. See: http://txti.es/egregores
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You know, I feel privileged (in an epistemologically doubtful way) that I once lived in a world where I could have confidence that I wasn't being fundamentally deceived by literal dei ex machina. I've understood for the last decad
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by californiadreem 4y ago
If anyone is in (or knows anyone in) agronomy, please fund/start studies on the viability of using bacillus subtilis, the bacteria behind natto, to ferment animal feeds, thus increasing the latent levels of vitamin K2 in their diets. N
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by californiadreem 4y ago
My wife and I use Briar for household communication because of subsidiarity rather than any direct privacy concerns. Out of all the messenger projects that we've tried, Briar actually works for local communication. It's actuall
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What to do about spam in general? Use reader-oriented tools. (2002)(toad.com)
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"This person would establish his appetitive and money-making part on the throne, setting it up as a great king within himself. ... He makes the rational and spirited parts sit on the ground beneath appetite, one on either side, reducin
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by californiadreem 4y ago
We've always been at war with Net Neutrality. "The ability to organize grassroots movements, whether locally or across the globe, is made possible by an open Internet. Since its creation, the Internet has become the world’s megaph
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by californiadreem 4y ago
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jew
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I can almost guarantee that Karl Popper (the person who wrote a book on the reductive tendencies of proto-totalitarian societies) would fundamentally disagree with this summary of his 750 page work. He might point to the next five decades o
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by californiadreem 4y ago
For anyone wanting the full quote from Popper's The Open Society: "Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who ar
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Augustine and a clear exposition of original sin was in the late 4th-early 5th century, about four hundred years after the Roman Empire had already effectively integrated quite a bit of Europe and Asia into a diverse and sophisticated civil
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I unironically believe that the emergence of "political correctness" in America in the 1960s-1980s and it's disappearance as a political force in 1991 and its reemergence as "social justice" in 2012 both stem from &
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This is a lot of words to say "entropy and thermodynamics also directly apply to social phenomena."
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"[...] Subsequent pontiffs continued to exhort the episcopate and the whole body of the faithful to be on their guard against heretical writings, whether old or new; and one of the functions of the Inquisition when it was established w
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by californiadreem 4y ago
There is a very small escalation needed to make the jump from the concept of collective negative liberty ("freedom from disease") to involuntary treatment resulting in Nazi-aligned pogroms for collective hygiene. That step is typi