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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Do you have a vested interest in Booking.com? Interesting that you vehemently defend a common negative experience that booking through third parties is garbage, but you only seem to be defending this particular website.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Maybe it's that being married and having children helped them be successful.
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A Critique of Alan Turing's Conclusions on Thinking Machines(leroy.works)
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Empathy is knowing the mental feelings of someone because you’ve known them. Sympathy is knowing the physical symptoms of someone because you’ve felt them. Compassion is a way of acting when knowing empathy and sympathy.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
I'm asking you to stop arguing inside "simple linguistic ontology".
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
When I say “we”, I mean each of us. You control your thoughts. You are the doing because you choose the thought to act on.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
I’m trying to show you something miraculous. It simply involves understanding that you are not your thoughts.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
No, cats have souls. But they certainly have thinking machines.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
https://leroy.works/articles/you-are-not-your-thoughts/
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
We are not our thoughts. We are not the thinking machines in our heads. We control our thoughts, so we are more than them. These machines are merely thinking machines.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Indulgence doesn’t necessarily have to mean abuse.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
A crucial aspect of ritual is preparation. I prepare to drive by adjusting all of my mirrors. A ritual is more than just a habit, it is a preparation for a specific habit. Again, I guarantee you do some kind of ritual in your day-to-day tha
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
It isn’t the recommendation algorithms themselves which are insidious, it is that they are coupled directly with a single human. They are like mental parasites which watch every single interaction one makes and adjusts, ever so slightly, to
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
I guarantee that you do rituals every single day because you prepare for them just like a ritual. A habit? Sure. A ritual, of course.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Of course Google et. al can build a chat bot that chats like you. But _is_ you? No, how can Google build something that knows unless you’ve stated it?
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
We’re going to have to disagree. Habits are merely unformalized rituals. If you examine your day-to-day you may find many rituals you do to prepare your self for the coming moment. Adjusting your volume on your music before a coding session
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
There are rituals with all sorts of meaning, individually and collectively. But if it can work individually then it can certainly work negatively too, such as with addictions. Many habits are rituals with no meaning, which is one of the rea
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Humans are just the total sum of their actions. Actions beget being and so rituals beget a practiced being. Humans practice rituals every day without even thinking about it. Ever sat in your chair and immediately wanted a cold one?
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
That’s a real shame. Sometimes people need a reason, other than friendship, to be friends.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
When I made my comment, I knew nothing about a “g-factor”.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Damn, that should’ve been obvious because of where we are. I even have friends like this — I was thinking about not knowing a name, period.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
What other general intelligence have we seen other than human? We know, of course, that animals have intelligence, but they do not appear to talk. How are we measuring general intelligence now? By IQ, a human test through words and symbols.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Here’s a trick: allow yourself to notice things and then comment on them. That’s what people want. A few examples: * Damn, she made these biscuits big as hell. Love these biscuits. * Not sure what 36 is doing on the sideline like that. * He
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
How did you manage to have a phone friend without knowing their name? You’re gonna have to tell that story. I absolutely agree btw, people are more than just their job. And most hate, or are disinterested, in their work. I’m interested them
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Learning programming language theory and then putting it into practice by writing a compiler will 100%, without a doubt in my mind, make you a better software engineer. This is because you will have to put many complex systems into working
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
The ancient Greeks held sight itself as holy. We have now showed other people’s experiences and have become addicted to them. The vision is so strong, people can manage to somehow live inside these addictions.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Back in the old days, I had some sort of arcane chroot setup for FTP for this website. I used a hard link to resolve everything. Well, like a year into it, I forgot that I used a hard link. I needed to update a few things, so I just rm’d th
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Something that may tickle your fancy is considering words as food. Food affects our body in more ways than simply giving us energy. Can words affect the mind in similar fashion?
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
I'm sure you can find much research about how the body reacts to it as such.
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by leroy-is-here 4y ago
Yes, it took me a long time to realize that pain, and pangs, and feelings aren't minor inconveniences that I must live with, but my body telling me something was wrong or needed adjustment. I've found that fasting helps us stop ig

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