mmooss

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by mmooss 2y ago
That clump doesn't exist, except in rare circumstances - it's conceptual, which is why you use a metaphor. The clump of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make a water molecule is actual, real - you can touch it and see it.
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by mmooss 2y ago
They were talking about the individuals who control nuclear arsenals capable of destroying humanity.
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by mmooss 2y ago
> we continuously select the biggest psychopaths to control those means Biden, Obama, GW Bush, Clinton, G Bush, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, ... we've only chosen one 'psychopath', assuming I know what you refe
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by mmooss 2y ago
We are talking about Homo genus; I expect they had language (do we know?). The issue was communicating with others who speak a different language, and my point is that people manage it all the time.
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by mmooss 2y ago
That old MacOS UI looks so appealing. I want to use it and I don't care that it's low-res, black and white. I love that they created what seems like a texture in the window titlebars, I assume to give them physical-like presence a
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by mmooss 2y ago
> You could also say that atoms are a construct, also molecules and nuclei. You could say it, but they are real things that interact with the environment. DNA is a real thing that interacts with the environment. Species, the periodic tab
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by mmooss 2y ago
So no evidence, just more of the cutting edge, widely followed, paper-thin theory of inevitable evil. > There are indicators, for example, the neanderthals and all other human like great apes have mysteriously disappeared except for us.
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by mmooss 2y ago
It's a matter of degree. Of course they learned some things from each other, but did or could the groups have largely similar cultures? The term used in the paper is "behavioral uniformity", which is more than exchanging a fe
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by mmooss 2y ago
Why wouldn't they learn to communicate, like all other humans do?
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by mmooss 2y ago
> Plunder/Raping raids What are you referring to? Is there evidence of that being most of the way they interacted?
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by mmooss 2y ago
> They are geopolitically located in a place that matters I meant, 'they are not geopolitically located in a place that matters'. Oops.
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by mmooss 2y ago
Compare all of Africa with East Asia. The latter is a heavily coastal population along an oceanic trade route, also near the massive South Asian population. Also, Africa doesn't have the geopoitical importance, an accident of geography
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by mmooss 2y ago
Let's look at the successful economies of East Asia: Japan was a first world country, an economic success before WWII, and then had the US occupation after the war to rebuild it economically and politically as a hedge against future Ja
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by mmooss 2y ago
That was my first thought. Let's say you are an editor: You can be accurate and write 'Nigeria' in the headline, but you realize that most people have no idea where or what Nigeria is - that's a bad thing, but true. If y
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by mmooss 2y ago
In film, I think Breathless by Godard may be seen as a dividing line, though of course it's never that simple.
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by mmooss 2y ago
How do we define the difference? Like technological and social disruptions, I think usually the difference is that the new thing has a different agenda than the old - different goals. As a result, the old can't make sense of it - by th
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by mmooss 2y ago
The OP offers a hypothesis: Billboard changed its ratings method significantly, and many formerly 'popular' artists weren't.
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by mmooss 2y ago
You know the difference, and probably could articulate it if you thought about it. Why poison a good human interaction and drive someone away? You don't need to treat others like that.
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by mmooss 2y ago
I think you're creating a fine definition but based on context and your own intellectual sophistication; we don't know what the author of those words meant.
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by mmooss 2y ago
Thunderbird began improving, as far as I know, after multiple post-Mozilla iterations, including returning to the Mozilla fold in a different relationship, which is where it is now. Its improvement was not correlated with the Mozilla breaku
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by mmooss 2y ago
> Considering Mozilla overspends on everything else That something is repeated endlessly does not make it true. In fact, it's a signal of disinformation (which doesn't make it false). And when words are used like "everythi
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by mmooss 2y ago
I see what you mean. I guess even LLM errors come from the source materials, just along a path we don't like.
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by mmooss 2y ago
Who specifically do you mean by "mainstream media"? In this discussion of the NY Times, they covered heavily and the Biden camp complained bitterly. Can you say when they started covering it?
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by mmooss 2y ago
Right, that was one of the possibilities I intended in the GP. So why not get good copies made of masterworks? I've thought seriously about it. I sort of tried one. One challenge is that what makes great art exceptionally beautiful is
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by mmooss 2y ago
> A second LLM then scored how well the facts aligned with those sources, specifically if there was a causal relationship between the two. What is 'causal' about it? Maybe I'm reading one word too closely, but an accurate
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by mmooss 2y ago
OK, but ... those people may not be 'concern trolls' at all (whatever that means).
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by mmooss 2y ago
I see what you are referring to, thanks. 'Pressure' doesn't mean fear necessarily. It could just result in different calculations of concern or risk. More importantly, the word 'pressure' upthread was written by a r
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by mmooss 2y ago
I agree to a great extent, especially regarding copies. Why don't people just have top-notch copies of masterpieces made for their walls? Status? You look cheap? (Possibly, the undistinguishable works in the article are of rare quality
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by mmooss 2y ago
Where do you get good information?
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by mmooss 2y ago
What says they were scared?

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