crabkin

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by crabkin 3y ago
Society, culture, this hierarchal and quasi-performative game we play, where we take on roles and portend certain things which cycle on and off, is a matrix. Any situation I would think where there is a center and then merchants and then ba
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by crabkin 3y ago
we've been in the matrix since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians/Mesopotamia
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by crabkin 3y ago
Creative ability isn't an "ability" so much as a modality people who are creative are stuck in. Creative people have an itch to make something . I think I am a creative person and I don't quite even think it has anythin
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by crabkin 3y ago
There is some element of truth to this, undoubtably. But I would add that there are some qualities like facial symmetry and probably facial harmony moreover that I think are universal.
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by crabkin 3y ago
Also, consider the situation in which another state is putting significant resources into a similar project. Would it not follow that it is in the best interest of the U.S. to then fund and support OpenAI? The strategic calculus becomes alm
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by crabkin 3y ago
this is just how things are now. as an older zoomer ive learned not underestimate the breadth and depth of the demographic that is gamers, seems like just about every single male is one to a certain extent, transcending just about all the c
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by crabkin 3y ago
I have a hunch based on no insight or rational thought, but it is that the wall will be generic for AI apropos to art/creation. It will be doomed to uninventiveness.
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by crabkin 4y ago
IQ will be seen in a 100 years the same way phrenology is now.
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by crabkin 4y ago
explodes your mind tbh, if you give it a chance it will that is. A lot of great art does ask a lot from the reader, viewer, listener. I would usually agree that's not all that fair and artists' are asking for too much, but when so
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by crabkin 4y ago
Honestly there's some element of that in there, quite obviously with all the operation paperclip innuendo, I mean after the war was won, one of the first orders of business was copying the rocket from the Germans. Recently I read abo
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by crabkin 4y ago
> maybe reading should be like listening to music: Basically how I read Gravity's Rainbow and I honestly don't feel like I missed out on too much.
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by crabkin 4y ago
As Socrates said, why be so afraid of death? Maybe it's the best thing that could ever happen to you.
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by crabkin 4y ago
Erm showing a a bit bad faith here. Taleb got his big break in the 80s. I think it was Black Monday, when he held long and deeply out of the money puts and watched them bring him considerable return while other market actors went out of bus
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by crabkin 4y ago
I have ADHD and maybe some sort of low grade dyslexia. My voracious curiosity with no regard to structured learning or topical coherence has only been a huge boon to my reading/writing. I think ADHD/dyslexia has been a bigger prob
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by crabkin 4y ago
From plate 6: "At this stage, another new head and tail are created to conform to the style and direction of the developing image. Picasso introduces more curves to soften the network of lines that crisscross the creature. Once again h
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by crabkin 4y ago
Blood Meridian! Surprised I haven't seen this recommendation yet, since it's considered his masterwork and one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
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by crabkin 4y ago
the people who can downvote on this site all have remarkably similar political/ethical positions, or it is my impression at least that is the case. really makes you think huh
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by crabkin 4y ago
don't understand your comment. maybe I should have put and/or. downvoted because I go against the grain here, clearly though, everyone must concede you don't live in a vacuum and social/biological dynamics do not bow dow
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by crabkin 4y ago
Nope no obligation, but just as we say for freedom of speech in some other context, like for instance, say you were to use a pejorative term to a person it may apply to, you may not have the "obligation to give any remote fuck" ab
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by crabkin 4y ago
you can tell these people have never tried to bulk and cut cycle, if you guys start lifting weights or even taking stimulants it becomes beyond obvious that it is a simple input/output sort of thing. The psychological, I saw someone me
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by crabkin 4y ago
Your chain of reasoning is difficult to refute if we're speaking strictly in terms of "common sense" and what I think may be some commonly accepted guide posts we have currently have culturally. For instance, "It seems t
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by crabkin 4y ago
The opinion isn't arrogant because opinions can't really be arrogant, it's the context they're presented in which gives off the impression. I probably took what you wrote more seriously than my reply merited, but I do ha
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by crabkin 4y ago
Not the person you are replying to, but the assertion in question may not be arrogant if we construe it was made with the intent of saying "I think that consciousness is an emergent property having to do with the whole body," inst
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by crabkin 4y ago
you're right. When going against the feds you are taking a huge risk trying to go to trial or otherwise fighting them. From their personal financial perspective and more likely also in their interest as SBF's parents, they'd