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I think consciously maintaining a collective categorization of entities, or independently maintaining a collective categorization of entities is radical. More people might discover abstract math on their own, simply because it hasn't b
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avcJdb8MVXM&noredirect=1
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12y ago
>>Brag until you Fail AKA "How to lose friends and annoy everybody"
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12y ago
I do that too, but I still notice patterns. Then the mechanic for constructing of 'anti-patterns' for a choice mechanic is patterned itself. I just do my stuff for thinking new thoughts. I did a zen thing where I deconstructed eve
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12y ago
> I'm always looking for any dumb excuse to pick one arbitrary option over another Flip a coin. I sometimes get paranoid that cultural belief systems, cultural environments and all the knowledge of humanity has indoctrinated me into
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12y ago
I find a lot of beauty in the pedantry and borderline neurosis of effective organization, but I suppose that is not what you meant by a curation of bureaucracy. Fulfilling, imaginative, and measurably impactful work is hard. It is nearly im
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12y ago
No, I'm not suggesting that. I'm in a forum talking about things related to my trauma, aren't I? Shouldn't that be triggering me into a horrible downward spiral, if I was suggesting this? I got better. Some people are st
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12y ago
I don't know if people who have not experienced it (or learned how to recognize the pattern of subconscious association) will ever understand it. It sucks being sucked into your own black hole and I do not believe trauma victims walk i
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12y ago
I am sort of on the fence on this. On one hand, I do not like pursuing ignorance. On the other, I do not objectively know the difference between a mind that is repeatedly triggered by random noise that can immediately bring my mind back int
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12y ago
I expressed my own personal concern. This conversation will not be about equivocating one tragedy to another. That is a red herring.
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12y ago
The only thing I am concerned with is how secure / exploitable they are from a computer security perspective. I assume there will be some kind of link between the vehicular peripherals to vehicle control and configuration. Then I worry
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12y ago
I've never gotten my IQ tested, but when I read about studies like these - they usually demoralize me from fear of competitive behavior. I think this leads to low self esteem, and the imagining that I have a low IQ (high marks through
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12y ago
I think programming can be very mentally taxing. I prefer empathy over dominance.
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12y ago
> don't code to exhaustion to satisfy some sort of Asperger's or OCD issues. ... why not? What if nothing else works? > But however you slice it, you cannot get past this one fact: it is an unnatural thing to sit in front of
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12y ago
> I think sometimes people who enjoy programming and also get paid very well to work as a programmer forget just how lucky they are. Most people don't love their jobs. I forget this all the time, except when I'm programming. I
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12y ago
This really depends on where you draw the line between knowledge and non knowledge. Our entirety scientific body is the best explanation we have for the phenomenon we as a social species have observed. Much of what we call 'knowledge&#
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12y ago
A lot of philosophy also deals with this idea, but it's not like anyone takes the humanities seriously in the age of data. At some points it certainly seems like we need to measure the pain in our foot and fit it to a curve, to know we
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I can not understand or empathize with the intent of 'promising enlightenment'. Do you think that if 'a given organization' figures out a way to actually offer enlightenment, or the illusion of, and people pay for this,
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12y ago
Can't you frame every social organization in this kind of light? Stuff that people spend their lives on - they make it sound simple so other people understand it - this forms a 'social group dynamic' through the action of com
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12y ago
As a person who is only one person, society only changes when one person can reveal or demonstrate to others the concepts that form the ground of the argument. Otherwise it's just crap stuffed up in your own head. For him, it is more i
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There are the people who grew up watching the privacy invasion happen, and there are the people who grew up with it. I felt often like I was in the middle, but bad experience made me realize that privacy is something worth fighting for. We&
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I used to think like this. But the idea of no consciousness, the complete lack of everything, total emptiness, absolute void - pure nothing, to be nothing, to cease to exist in all forms. That can appeal to a particular kind of someone. It
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I have similar issues, and I've read scientific opinions [1] theorizing that people diagnosed with aspergers may actually have extreme empathy to the point where it paralyzes them. I've been diagnosed with aspergers by one special
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I think if you spend enough time appreciating the core functionality over the superficial form, your aesthetics change, and the superficial form that denotes quality functionality is what is considered 'better designed'. It's
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> the thing Apple fans don't have to worry about is which machine to get because even the worst Apple device is miles ahead of the non Apple alternatives This is very subjective to define. It's true, if you like apple, and all
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I really look forward to when we, as academics, historically document and seriously examine the various phases of the internet, from a variety of alternative perspectives. It's interesting while it's being built, but it's als
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Both exist. Postmodernism is a lot more relevant to the digital age than anything, imo. It emphasizes pointing out ways of thinking and doing, which I think is especially relevant when we are actually automating most of our ways of thinking
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12y ago
Okay, but those ad hominem attacks won't stop some people from training their machines better than implementations of these algorithms can manage the complexities between data kinds and data object noise.
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Or something like a public forum or google exists, and lots and lots of people continue to hack and talk about things in order to fuzzily define what they think the author meant by a certain term, in the case that it's meaning was lost
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I only read the end of the article, but it seems the author agrees with you. > Don't fall in to Tim's trap. Great developers create great software not because they follow the strictures of some methodology but because they are
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