johnfjacobi

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Ted Kaczynski [the Unabomber] and Why He Matters(dark-mountain.net)
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I've never read this before, but it offers a unique perspective that might have convinced me to be less damning of tables in place of CSS.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This seems like a legitimate opinion to me.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
This guy is excellent. I recommend his first novel, "We the City," and you might also want to check out a literary form he renamed and whose revival he spearheaded, "small fates." http://www.tejucole.com/
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(2011) Vim commands are a language(stackoverflow.com)
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Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking into Physical Stores(theatlantic.com)
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The Binge Breaker(theatlantic.com)
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Eight real-world ways Brexit has hit science, technology and design(wired.co.uk)
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Definitely my favorite one. Most of the others I clicked on were very gimmicky.
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The Hours by Daniel Zalewski(newyorker.com)
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Well, that's not entirely fair. Sure, civilization has largely made mankind more peaceful, but Progress is still driven by violence. There was even a link on here recently about how the relationship between war and civilization. https
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying his position. I didn't mean to suggest that he intended it to be anything other than a backup plan, but my wording might have been ambiguous because others, like Martin Rees, have suggested similar things and tend
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I don't mean that communism worked, but that Lenin achieved what he wanted as far as actual revolution is concerned. What you said is true though, and I think it has to do with the problems inherent in trying to "plan a society.&q
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I'm also wondering this. I have not seen an OS superior to *NIX systems, UNIX in particular, when you add the context of era.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
BBSses, call waiting, Radio Shack, Commodore 64... Damn man, you hit all the points.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
But many people don't realize that this kind of idiosyncratic asshole-ishness is how a lot of successful rebels / revolutionaries work, cultural and political. Lenin is a great example, and the most illustrative for me because I s
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I'm pretty critical of technology and modernity in general, and this Cult of Elon is a large part of the reason I dislike the man and his endeavors. It has nothing to do with his intelligence or person. He's clearly intelligent, a
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I've also seen a fair amount of people actually cognizant of the dangers our technological society poses. It's not the majority, but there are far more people here than most discussion-centered places on the internet.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Well, he's kind of egotistical, something even his supporters know well. He tends to be a bottleneck for the organization's operations.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
How was Deep Springs? A friend of mine told me about it and visited the campus ("campus"?), because he considered going, but he never did. I'm interested in hearing what someone who actually lived there thinks about it.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
I've heard this a lot and first just dismissed it as a conspiracy theory. Is there actually any substance to these thoughts, or are they only speculation?
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Maybe we're speaking past each other or using terms with different definitions. Either that or you're arguing from a sort of Cartesian standpoint. Because you're question has obvious answers: dolphins, trees, literally everyt
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Why panpsychism fails to solve the problem of consciousness(aeon.co)
3 points by johnfjacobi 10y ago|2 comments
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
> Google researcher Quoc Le says Google’s big translation upgrade could also lead to improved relations between people and machines. Why does he think this?
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
> the only thing that makes sense is to keep living like we are the only life in the universe uh...we aren't.
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
> Note, in advance, that I am not saying these should not be free, they absolutely should, this is a problem on the level of the philosophical framework and of strategy -- not a factual mistake on the value level It seems like this criti
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Also, I'm not entirely sure seeking to "eradicate all diseases" is a laudable goal in itself. 1. We don't understand the consequences of this. 2. Our notion of disease has changed (as a previous poster noted, think about
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
Why do you think that conversation couldn't have happened on another social network? Specifically, I find that the character limit always makes any actual discussion very hard on twitter. Anything deeper than pop culture and I don&#x27
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
The above commenters are making it out like AI will balance the bad with the good. That's probably true in the long term, but in the short term the instability caused by AI will probably be akin to the instability caused by the first i
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by johnfjacobi 10y ago
There's some overlap with "dark enlightenment" stuff. Unfortunately that always tends to take on racial connotations because of the groups it originated in. Whereas the anti-modern conservatism I and others who generally agre

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