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by carapace 3y ago
I was just thinking about this today, I hope you don't mind me bouncing it off of you? The computers & robots seem poised to make most human labor obsolete. (I'm only really good at programming computers and I feel like my ca
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by carapace 3y ago
That's IMO a much more fascinating question. What does it mean that simple systems can exhibit "life"? The first three kinds of simple system are, um, pretty obvious: Boring is static, Oscillators have movement but are stati
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A Short Metacompiler (1978, 2021)(sforman.srht.site)
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by carapace 3y ago
> the lack of formality makes the taxonomy appear somewhat arbitrary I thought it was empirical? E.g. sample Turing drawings: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/ They clearly seem to me to fall into four ki
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by carapace 3y ago
Cheers!
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by carapace 3y ago
Hey, I joined up a few days ago and wrote a little intro post, but I seem to be blocked from posting pending admin approval. I know you’re busy, so I don’t want to bother you, but I’m eager to participate.
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by carapace 3y ago
Raccoons and crows already know how to use vending machines. They don't do it because they don't want to be made to work. It's the same reason orangutans don't talk.
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by carapace 3y ago
Neat! Maybe check out the Joy programming language? It seems well-suited to this domain.
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by carapace 3y ago
It's worth noting that the root concept of the Martian word "grok" is to eat, to digest (and thereby become one.)
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by carapace 4y ago
Anime does it just fine. E.g. half of an Inuyasha episode is internal monologue, eh?
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by carapace 4y ago
Ah, cheers!
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by carapace 4y ago
This seems as good an opening as any... No. (the first one, haven't seen the second) This "Dune" is not good. It's pretty, but stupid. For one thing, just one little thing, what's the Baron's guy's name?
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by carapace 4y ago
> The only criticism of those beliefs I would have is that they come from sentiment, not (only) reason - so, in theory, if instead of eco-literature, you read, say, the Bible, you would most likely have equally strong beliefs towards Chr
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by carapace 4y ago
s/Bloddy/Bloody/ It's been that kind of a wekk.
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by carapace 4y ago
Honest answer (and thanks for asking): First, I want to make it clear that I don't think of "climate deniers" as a group per se like a race, creed, or nation. There's a lot of detail and nuance in the world and I want
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by carapace 4y ago
"Cancel culture" was e.g. gays getting beaten up by random strangers just for existing, and now it's e.g. getting fired for telling a homophobic joke in public.
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm not saying it's right or useful, but I think a lot of people (especially young people) are just really sick of climate change denial-ism. I know I am. I'm nearly half a century old and the handwriting has been on the
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by carapace 4y ago
Fair enough. FWIW I'm working towards just such an economic shift right now. I just acquired some land for regenerative ag and a "living neighborhood"[1] Something like a cross between Village Homes[2] and Riverbed Ranch[3].
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by carapace 4y ago
Hey Taylor, I joined the community and posted an introductory, uh, post, but I seem to be in a "pending moderator approval" limbo. I know you're busy but maybe you could clear the flag, or whatever, to let me participate?
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by carapace 4y ago
Ha! Yeah, that was a good day. FWIW you picked up some serious street credit with me. And I'm not joking. ;) If you want to experience chi firsthand I'm in San Francisco.
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by carapace 4y ago
> there is no path to that level of transformation that doesn't require a period of large-scale human suffering Eh? I question that assumption.
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by carapace 4y ago
We sometimes talk about "super-human" and "sub-human", but let's invert that and consider the idea of humans rated as "sub-computer" or "super-computer" instead. Right now most of us are "su
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by carapace 4y ago
Sorry dang.
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by carapace 4y ago
Bill Gates knew Epstein "decades prior to 2011" https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/t...
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by carapace 4y ago
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
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by carapace 4y ago
s/bother/bothers/ Bloddy hell.
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by carapace 4y ago
Cheers! Frankly, I see it as extremely cheap R&D, eh? A very good deal. ;)
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by carapace 4y ago
I do. Try it, YMMV. - - - - Normally when you look into your own eyes in a mirror they are each looking into themselves. If you cross your eyes and get the distance just right, you can look into each eye from the other. For me it causes a s
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by carapace 4y ago
Most cities predate the invention of the automobile.
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by carapace 4y ago
Alrighty, I'm a "lentil" now! Sweet!

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