daoist_shaman

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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I agree. Delaying the launch is not a big deal. Launching and going boom is a big deal. There isn't much to discuss because this is literally business as usual in this line of work.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Not as exciting as Laozi but I'll take it. Jimmy R deserves credit where credit is due.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
What a beautiful way to describe being present. There's a quote widely attributed to Laozi, author of the Tao Te Ching If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you a
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Beauty filters on social media which subtly change facial features such as lip and eye size are already leading to widespread body dysmorphia issues. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of augmentative elective surgeries is also skyr
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Private property needs limits when you have an unbounded population.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
> Also government sleeping on the job not including useful knowledge in school curriculum -- like basics of personal finances and economics. Seems intentional at this point. Keep 99% of the population as useful, financially-illiterate wo
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Yeah, they are also included. Anyone who had their education financed any other way should also be eligible, otherwise this doesn't seem very egalitarian. It punishes those who made the responsible financial choice of avoiding debt.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
If student loans are forgiven, would those who already paid them off be eligible for rebates? If not, why would we want to reward large amounts of debt? Isn't that a recipe for disaster in a country where the average citizen already ha
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I think "philosophy" can be substituted with any idea that serves as viable coping mechanism to stress. Any idea that impacts your life in such a powerful way transcends into the realm of spirituality.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Shhh, don't point fingers at their anti-competitive acquisitions and mergers. It's clearly the people paying fair wages in a free market who are at fault. /s
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Graphics and graphical processing take orders of magnitude longer than other fundamental machine instructions. It's just inherently slower than doing something equivalent that requires zero graphical processing or monitoring of user in
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
If something mission critical is happening in a GUI dependent on Qt, it seems like even the most rudimentary timing analysis of the requirements could have revealed that Qt is not a good solution for that. I fail to see any relevant insight
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
My electric bill doubled and my electricity provider (Xcel Energy) added salt to the wound by suddenly terminating my Ecobee smart thermostat Eco+ cost savings program for the following reason: "not a single family home." Gee, tha
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Did anyone else come straight to the comments before reading the article? I feel attacked.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I did an assignment on the Blue Brain Project once. It's an incredibly complex project with lofty ambitions. One thing that blew my mind was how limited they were by modern storage technology. Storing high-fidelity neuronal cross-secti
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
This entire thread reeks of burnout. Source: Am burnt out.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I can only imagine what a round table discussion with the Joint Chiefs of Staff sounds like. "Sir, the hacker groups seem to love this thing we've only recently identified as 'FOSS.' It's surfacing to be an existent
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
This made me happy since there were no deaths.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I'm sure the framework they've developed applies to more intracellular systems than immunity. This could be an exciting new language to map and define many different microbiological processes.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Generally when this happens, I assume services allowed/permitted by the fed are backdoored to the fed's advantage. Monero could be an excellent example. It's the tech they they haven't backdoored that poses a threat to t
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
The moment I grew enough of a brain to rationalize my way out of a toxic, fear-based religion, that's exactly what I did. And for a long time, I was aspiritual. I've since rekindled my relationship with my spirituality, but I only
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Absolutely. Anthropomorphizing is just a metaphorical way to simplify the highly complex system that is formally known as natural selection. It also alludes to the notion of Earth as one big organism, popularly known as the Gaia hypothesis.
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Many people also have trouble separating ideas from individuals. Ideas are imagination. They aren’t real until they are actualized. They can be beautiful or they can be toxic. Ideas are one thing, but the transmission of them is another. Th
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I guess when I say “natural,” what I truly mean is “that which is not made by man.” Any substance which is found in the natural environment and mechanically altered does not count in my definition of man-made; this is essentially the same n
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
This looks like my cup of tea. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Rewilding is an extreme answer, but an answer nonetheless. Could humanity ever have the discipline to only allow “some technology?” Maybe, but the extreme answer will always be there waiting for us. That his ideas were undermined by his act
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Thanks
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
I used to identify as a transhumanist and believed that technology could do no harm. I was an adolescent donning rose-colored glasses, with a burning passion for science, technology, and improvement of our species. Only after an electrical
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Because it's had millions of years to converge on a near-optimal solution for the environment that it's in. In fact, this is true for all organs within all extant species. Nature is far more advanced than technology, and I don&#x2
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by daoist_shaman 4y ago
This blows my mind. How is it even possible to validate a model that incorporates 20B parameters? How do you even test something this complex and non-deterministic? I assume some kind of infallible automated tooling is used to write tests t

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