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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I don't know what happened between Kubrick and Duvall, but it is clear to me that Kubrick's art looks at humanity in general in a cynical and one might even say misanthropic way. Think about his male characters. His films are full
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I think King was wrong. Wendy outwits Jack and saves her son. Yeah she screams a lot but that seems pretty realistic to me. When push comes to shove and she can no longer deny what is happening, she shows a lot of strength and intelligence.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>Arguably, the original trilogy was simply dungeons and dragons in space. Wizards, rogues, and knights in space. It was basically Flash Gordon plus WW2 movies plus samurai movies plus fairy tales and Arthurian fantasy in space. I think o
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I don't think everyone is equally sensitive to this. Just intonation sounds a bit different to me from equal temperament, but it doesn't sound disturbing. Likewise, although I have heard a lot of Indian classical music that is not
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Some ìssues with this: 1. To what extent does fìnishing high school make people successful, as oppposed to it just being the case that people who have characteristics that are likely to make them successful, such as having been born smart a
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The distinction between intelligence and consciousness has been discussed in philosophy of mind for many decades, perhaps centuries. I don't know much much it has been discussed in the context of LLMs, but I'm sure it's not a
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The authors of the paper seem to define what they mean by consciousness quite precisely. They mean phenomenal consciousness: >The central goal of any C-test is to determine whether a target system has subjective and qualitative experienc
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
If you can't win because no matter what option you pick, equally matched groups of politically motivated people will yell at you, then the logical thing to do is to just do whatever is easiest. In this case that would be to not try to
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I don't know why so many people hate the whispery Lynch Dune voiceovers. I think they work great to convey both extra content and the mysterious, intrigue-laden mood of the book.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Yeah, I don't remember Jessica being nearly as overtly emotional in the book as she is in Part 1. I enjoyed Part 1 while watching it, but somehow it's just not memorable to me. It's a much more faithful book adaptation than L
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I very much dislike woke-ism and I don't support white supremacy, and I'm also not super-rich. I very much dislike woke-ism because it's a political movement that tries to get people to ignore reality in favor of its dogmas a
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Google's AI Gemini accused of refusing to acknowledge white people(dailydot.com)
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Waymo car set on fire in SF Chinatown(twitter.com)
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
There are plot points that would naturally happen during sex. For example, a character accidentally blurting out a secret in a moment of passion. Or using the other person's lust-filled single-minded focus to distract, deceive, or betr
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Sex scenes make sense when seduction and sex are a big component of the movie's theme or plot. Like in erotic thrillers, for example. How people have sex tells us something about them.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I miss squibs. Doesn't seem like they use them as much nowadays as they used to. There's nothing like a classic fight scene where a guy gets shot and the actor flails around wildly while red liquid erupts from an actual physical o
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
My politics are pretty moderate, neither left nor right for the most part. I would be annoyed if Twitter turned into a right-wing echo chamber but I like that it is now at least not dominated by the censorious side of the left. And I am pro
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
From my perspective, Twitter is better than it used to be - it now seems more dynamic with more of a "Wild West" feel than it used to have, and it seems to have more diversity of political opinions than it used to have. On the oth
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Expressing the views that they do in that video does not make them Russian shills. As I understand the word "shill", they would be shills if they were expressing those views because they worked for Russia. But I see no evidence th
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Russian propaganda such as what? Do you have any specific examples?
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>It is a software engineer’s job to build quality software. I think that most software engineers' jobs is not to build quality software, it is to make money. When you are trying to make money, the goal is not necessarily to make the
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Unit tests are not even well defined. What is a unit?
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
This eruption has caused me to re-read Pliny the Younger's words on the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD: http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written... . Words that are worthy of reading both for the
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
They work if you are the kind of person who is ok with living in an authoritarian place like Singapore. I personally am not, I like personal freedom. However, there are actually many people in the world who would feel fine living in Singapo
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>Keep in mind that the vast majority of the area was uninhabited swamps until the 1940s Not saying you're necessarily wrong, but I find this hard to believe because the majority of the area was not uninhabited swamps back during the
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Relational databases are mathematically elegant and useful in certain ways for arbitrary data retrieval and manipulation, but I don't see why they would be the best fit browser-side for any but the absolute largest and most complicated
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The reason why drug production and consumption should be legal is not that this will necessarily lead to better social outcomes as measured by conventional standards, it is because prohibitions on drugs are an insult to liberty. It is ridic
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The first movie might anchor people's perceptions that way but it's not because of what's actually in it. The movie shows plenty of non-humanoid robots and explains that the humanoid ones are specially designed that way to be
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Interesting read, but to me this essay projects an attitude "of course my particular brand of progressive politics* is correct, I don't need to justify it, it's obvious to all right-minded people", and I find that to be
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Yep, I agree with that last sentence. The only thing on that list that I think has to do with a significant national security threat is the nuclear command and control systems part. And we could have that without the mass surveillance.

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