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by cannonpr 6mo ago
The red kites are fun, I do enjoy seeing them and they are a great addition to biodiversity. However they also on occasion bring a packed lunch (see pigeon) to my garden, upon which time I either have to watch a somewhat horrifying nature d
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
Because it’s one of many events that violates our belief in our selves more than the nature of human society and man as a social animal based on studies of what we actually are.
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
It can look bad, but this is just an aspect of human behavior en masse that we don’t normally get to see. A long time ago there was an incident on a military base. A man had gotten up on a building to commit suicide, and while the officers
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
So to a large extent I appreciate that argument, however I feel this applied more to throwaway comments or sales outreach, writing with low information density. In this occasion the work that went into it is a lot, it would be lost or inacc
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
Because it contains information of value to you ? I mean if it doesn’t, just don’t read it.
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
No, I am just buying import Japanese jeans from the folk that bought all of the original high quality jeans making machines when the Americans moved to the flexi stuff, the jeans I buy last with next to no damage for 10-15 years despite nea
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by cannonpr 7mo ago
A “quality” jacket in the 1930s would cost 300-400$ or more inflation adjusted, it would also look less fashionable today, and feel somewhat less comfortable due to several concessions for durability in design. A durable quality jacket back
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by cannonpr 8mo ago
The problem is most data shows PTFE as having significant pyrolysis after 400-500c in reality it starts to break down enough to poison you around 260c. In general though under those temperatures it’s not particularly problematic, ofcourse i
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by cannonpr 8mo ago
Having just finished renovating a 140-year-old home with solid brick walls that was slowly collapsing and deteriorating due to the aforementioned professionals’ application of modern and chemically incompatible materials to it… I’m not sure
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by cannonpr 9mo ago
I’m afraid we tried that for quite a few centuries, with very little effect. Infact most major world religions had phases with heavy punishment, condemnation, belittling, and you are going to hell stuff over gambling. Yet here we are.
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by cannonpr 9mo ago
“Degenerate gamblers” is the kind of stigma that stops people and their families getting help for addiction. Even if you believe it’s a moral failing, the families deserve better.
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by cannonpr 9mo ago
Morality is a human construct and applies to humans, arguments that try to argue morality on the basis of applying naturalistic arguments to humans do exist, but I don’t think they have much credence in modern moral frameworks ?
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by cannonpr 9mo ago
I am a native Greek speaker with a fair bit of education in Homeric, Classical, and Medieval Greek. Trying to read that word hurts…
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by cannonpr 9mo ago
If what you value most is performing IQ tests, or competitive chess, then yes there is good data on the 25 part. If what you value is complexity and richness of thought, not so much.
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by cannonpr 10mo ago
Actually you should look up the info there, you actually don’t which is what a lot of fansubs rely on, they mostly only will own your translation if they chose to formally translate and publish commercially a translation in that country. If
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by cannonpr 11mo ago
There is something I don’t entirely understand about psychedelic use. While it might end up being temporary, there is a lot of data that it alters neural structures in fundamental and relatively poorly understood ways. Consciousness itself
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by cannonpr 1y ago
I think the statement above and yours both seem to ignore “Turing complete” systems, which would indicate that a computer is entirely capable of simulating the brain, perhaps not before the heat death of the universe, that’s yet to be prove
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by cannonpr 1y ago
I am from a European country with a long… very long history, some of the family heirlooms date back to Byzantium. I don’t live in that country anymore, and I live in terror of inheriting them… I could give them to a museum, yet asides from
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by cannonpr 1y ago
Because human vision has very little in common with camera vision and is a far more advanced sensor, on a far more advanced platform (ability to scan and pivot etc), with a lot more compute available to it.
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by cannonpr 1y ago
In normal times, perhaps, today… https://www.theverge.com/news/646797/nhtsa-staffers-office-v... When regular in theory bipartisan mechanisms fail, protest is all you have left.
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by cannonpr 1y ago
You might be surprised at how little of the body still functions without brain function, well, some bits of the brain, including basic homeostasis and immune system function.
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by cannonpr 1y ago
So… I hope your version of trying to understand life is a fruitful path, however my understanding of the underlying biomechanics, messy, deeply “physics” based and 3d, leaves me with confused more often than not. The behaviour is emergent b
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by cannonpr 1y ago
I don’t disagree, and I also have some unique genetic conditions that I won’t get into, they are depressing. However I will say that humanity is peppered with radical choices that did a lot of damage because we “thought” we understood, and
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by cannonpr 1y ago
I often find my self conflicted over Gattaca, because I much prefer Ian banks vision of the future, “beauty and intelligence should be a basic human right through technology” yet Gattacas dystopian vision is much more likely what we are goi
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by cannonpr 1y ago
Kind of surprised nobody has brought up https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_... It interacts nearly like a human, can and does interrupt me once it has enough context in many situations, and has
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I don’t mean to say Islam is perfect, very little is, but it does have a lot of due process and it hardly started as a death cult… I’d spend some time researching due process in shariah and try to remember that in many ways Islam was highly
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I agree that some of his main elements were relatively set by then but others continue to evolve. Personally I feel that his work is entirely fair game after his death, by which I mean to say after the end of his journey that he has poured
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Being someone who has paid a lot of attention to Ghibli, I wouldn’t say their style was well established 35-40 years ago… There is considerable evolution and refinement to their style from Naushika, to later works, both in the artistic styl
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by cannonpr 2y ago
It often surprises me that people think Tesla's sensor suite is sufficient for safe self driving, with quotes like "well humans rely on vision." Human vision is nothing like the cameras on a Tesla. Our eyes have far more adva
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Usually when someone brings up the laws of robotics I like to point out that they were mostly designed as an interesting example as to how direct instructions that seem clear to people would mostly result in perverse instantiation of AI esp

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