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by gbjw 7y ago
Startups to save the world and Black Mirror to lampoon the naivety of their techno-utopian worldview. The yin and yang of today's culture.
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by gbjw 7y ago
Ah, interesting. I have not read much about Tibetan Buddhism. Is the loop you are referring to specifically one of 'subjectivity' (i.e., the self perceiving the self) or the broader loop of reincarnation? Any recommended introduct
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by gbjw 7y ago
I've had that exact feeling of the 'dreadful alternative' of immortality under the influence of (in retrospect) way too much THC. Also, much of the perceived 'peace' and 'tranquility' some people describe
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by gbjw 7y ago
Just want to add that I had a somewhat similar experience under the influence of THC (I had several edibles). I took away much the same 'revelation' of the true existential terror of 'oneness'. I felt like I was stuck in
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by gbjw 7y ago
To add to this, Michael Pollan (author of Omnivore's Dillema and a Berkeley/Harvard prof) recently published a lucid account of the history of psychedelics and 'psychotomimetics' (as they were originally named, owing to
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by gbjw 7y ago
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZ6ypueK8M .
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by gbjw 7y ago
The author is Grant Sanderson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Blue1Brown ) who has an undergrad degree in math from Stanford and worked at Khan Academy before starting his YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown. Also, the student
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by gbjw 7y ago
1500 tech employees (out of 15000 total).
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by gbjw 7y ago
Oh, I have fond memories of the H320 (it was released right around the time of the click-wheel iPod with the grayscale screen). I could watch movies on my portable music player in colour ! My friends' minds were blown.
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by gbjw 7y ago
To add to this, there is also another line you can draw: do not eat anything which requires killing (not just harvesting from) another living thing. This is basically the line drawn by Jain vegetarians ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by gbjw 7y ago
You can make concrete changes now. Vote with your dollar. Do not support industries that flippantly disregard the beauty and sanctity of life in its many forms.
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by gbjw 7y ago
Also related: Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' ( https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/hum... ) wherein he argues that subjective experience transcends
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by gbjw 7y ago
What does this even mean? How can we not be 'really' conscious? How can I deny my own 'qualia'? I think you cannot explain subjective experience as a vector in latent space because it transcends any space in which you &#
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This is basically the take-away of much of modern philosophical thought (absurdism/existentialism). Existence precedes essence... we are thrust into the world with no 'idea' of what's meaningful or important. People grav
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by gbjw 7y ago
Come to Toronto - they never left! (and have their own set of problems)
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Strongly disagree with this sentiment. Which 'dimension' are you exactly putting a 'high bar' on? How does one measure 'quality'? How do you know the 'quality' of what you consume until you consume it
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by gbjw 7y ago
What's wrong with being hit on (assuming that it's not sexual harrassment)? What's wrong with taking a risk and setting up two friends? Why do we have to segment all life into easy-to-classify pockets of time: 'work&#x27
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Silicon Valley's Crisis of Conscience(newyorker.com)
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And (minor detail) she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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George Orwell: Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)(orwell.ru)
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by gbjw 7y ago
There were actually two AoA sensors (on either side of the aircraft) each connected to different sides of the panel. The issue was/is what to do when they disagree (with respect to MCAS). EDIT: Source: https://aviation.stack