manofmanysmiles

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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
Are you open to the problem being "you"? Not just you specifically, but you, me, and every individual who lacks the connection to self, morality, true knowledge? And with that, are you (and by extension), all people ready to do th
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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. The only remedy to bad information is more knowledge. With enough knowledge, all falsehoods fall away.
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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
I don’t believe any ideas are harmful to “society” [1], but there are many that are “harmful” to the current paradigm of power. Some that come to mind: 1) The illusion of authority. The idea that some people have the moral right to do viol
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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
Three serious questions: 1) do you believe we can stop it? 2) Do you believe we want to stop it? 3) What is the root cause?
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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
That’s disheartening, but not surprising. > remember to ask culture questions for your next position. I will definitely take that under advisement. Any places you recommend I look into?
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by manofmanysmiles 3y ago
Having spent a decade building embedded C, its refreshing to see that I'm not the only one who sees the value in doing things well. Every single one of the steps here, though they may seem excessive provide immense value, not at first,
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
The idea of archiving machine learning models really struck a chord. It reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation, where the empire has collapsed and people don’t know how to use the crumbling technology and treat it as magic.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
This is true. However, the people with the guns believe in the hierarchy so effectively the people doing the telling have the force of violence behind their words.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
So bad people did bad things to stupid people using made up numbers, so people with guns should take other made up numbers and give them to people with guns, and tell the people with guns to make sure the bad people don’t do bad things to t
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
I think it’s almost impossible to do, because our worldviews are based on so many assumptions. Even the language(s) we use are ambiguous. For me to have this conversation, I’d have to start defining what consciousness is, what free will is,
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
What connections between what people? What is the evidence of the connections? Can you provide some links?
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
The researchers missed a great opportunity to make the app look like John Connor’s debit card and access card hacking tool in Terminator 2!
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
I may be a little late to the party, but I'd like to offer a few thoughts. I write this as much to clarify my own thinking as to possibly help you. Preface: I feel at peace, and guided by inner purpose now. Experience has taught me tha
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
So it’s somehow more moral to gang up and take someone else’s property by force? Can you explain your idea of morality?
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Fascinating, thanks for replying. For the record, I’ve seen plenty of bad behavior by people in cars, on bikes, and on foot everywhere I’ve lived, just not such a consistent flow past stop signs without stopping.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Where was that video taken? People certainly don’t behave like that everywhere I’ve lived (Massachusetts, California).
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
This is helpful for me: https://www.tarabrach.com/taratalks-meditation-rain-working-... Everyone responds differently to different “teachers”, so you may watch that video and feel it’s a bunch of bullshit. For you it may be
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
If possible, try to get some distance from the particulars and do some emotional introspection. I am not recommending psychedelics or plant medicines, however mentioning that they have helped many achieve levels of introspection into their
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
This “spiritual” answer may not be a helpful answer, but “we” did. The government and billionaires hav no power when enough people said no. All the weapons in the world mean nothing if no one is willing to use them. “Solving” this problem w
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Spending time in the non-dual I see. So you think we are entering a time period where more people see the self created prison and decide it is no longer a useful abstraction and internalize more authority?
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Often hobbies are at least adjacent to careers in my experience.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
I barely felt it in Berkeley, and thought I was imagining it.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
It’s interesting to me that I just know that consciousness exists before matter and energy. Or that matter and energy occur within consciousness. Either you know or you don’t. No amount of thinking will take you there, and no philosophy can
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
With a fully parallel secret tech tree, you could in theory mine raw material, process them, and manufacture anything without money. You could have a closed system where resource allocation is done differently.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Replying to myself to say I will not be replying any more unless it's to people that do "get" what I'm saying. I chose not to expend any more energy arguing.
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Replying to the lower comment by 'alehlopeh' since I don't think threaded replies go this far down. Right now, I'm looking for people with "naive optimism" who would like to see this world. There are a few of u
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
If you're talking about me, I believe that when people are ready for it, "governments" as such will cease to be relevant. To put this another way, I am NOT advocating for getting rid of governments, because a) they already do
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
If you look carefully at the sentences, one is using nouns, the other verbs. "Organization" vs "organizing" I am not nitpicking. I am saying that as conscious entities, we act. We "verb". It's the labeling
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
> Libertarian presumption that people, removed from the system of control, would all act better" My premise is more: "If people act better, and then perhaps we won't need a system of external control." I will admit I
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by manofmanysmiles 4y ago
Show me a common good, and I’ll listen to you. I only see people. Every time we generalize it results in violence and conflict. I am 100% supportive of people working together.

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