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by mudita 4y ago
On the same blog there’s an article criticising exactly this argument in detail: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/06/26/meme-weeding-p... "Looking forward rather than backward, nothing in Germany’
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by mudita 4y ago
I did mandatory military service in Germany and from my own - much milder, of course - personal experience I can emphasise with Wittgenstein. Military service can really force you out of your bubble: All my friends chose to do civil service
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by mudita 4y ago
Yes, I found this related answer to a question on r/askhistorians about letters from prisoners of wars: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/55p22q/how_w... "letters from and to POWs
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by mudita 4y ago
Yes, thank you for this explanation. I didn’t know that they were not fully ordained, I learned something from you today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilashin (although one could argue whether to call them nuns or
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by mudita 4y ago
My own personal experience differed from yours. In a retreat in Burma I observed a lot of traditions, which made it very clear that men had a higher standing than women. When forming a line for going to lunch, the monks were first, then the
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by mudita 4y ago
There are several slightly different possible solutions, nobody agrees on which solution is best and nobody dares - or cares enough - to actually do something without having the ok from everybody else. Finally the discussion just peters out
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by mudita 4y ago
Which to me raises the question: Are there any possibilities to increase the absorption of methane somehow? And it seems like there are methods for capturing methane: https://news.mit.edu/2022/dirt-cheap-solution-common
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Iroha(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mudita 5y ago
I suspect that you are not really familiar with the historical background of the situation, a new "Marshall Plan” is not something AlexCoventry came up with right now in this discussion, but a widely discussed option, which many expert
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Loving Awareness as Anti-Meme(sashachapin.substack.com)
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by mudita 5y ago
Yes, Germany was under pressure - and Germans including me were disgusted that our politicians caved in to that pressure, when another European country is getting invaded and so much more is on the line.
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The Strategy of Anti-Strategy(sashachapin.substack.com)
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Some Conclusions About the High Desert After Five Months of Desert Life(sashachapin.substack.com)
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by mudita 5y ago
A long time ago I read Dan Simmons series article “Writing well”, where he argued that Shakespeare greatly profited from his education in a - very uncreative -grammar school, which emphasised learning of latin and imitation of latin rhetori
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by mudita 5y ago
The point has been made about books before, see, e.g. gwern: https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics
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by mudita 5y ago
I made a transfer with a mistyped IBAN once in the online interface of my German bank. The bank called me a day later and said that there’s something wrong with my IBAN, so I double-checked, realised my mistake and did the same transfer to
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by mudita 5y ago
You might like this story about Freeman Dyson and Richard Feynman having a road trip: https://youtu.be/1Rr3ZWt1ULQ (the whole interview is very interesting and contains a lot of stories of meeting other physicists and mathe
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by mudita 5y ago
... and another map for Europe: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europ%C3%A4ische_Was...
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by mudita 5y ago
According to Wikipedia similar devices were mentioned for example by Cicero, Archimedes supposedly wrote a now lost manuscript on the construction of devices like the Antikythera mechanism...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by mudita 5y ago
Yes, utility as a concept in decision theory is great, but it’s not the same as the concept by the same name from utilitarianism. In my understanding, coldtea is doubting not decision theoretic utility functions, but utilities as they are u
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by mudita 5y ago
Yes, I have a master’s in computer science and was a PhD student in machine learning, before I decided to fully go for dance.
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by mudita 5y ago
Slightly off-topic: I’m a professional dancer, we specifically train hugging. For contemporary dance, because it’s an important skill for a lot of partnering moves, like jumps involving two persons (an example of partnering: https:/&#
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by mudita 5y ago
In some dialects of German they go even further, using “quarter five” for “16:15” and “three quarter five” for “16:45”.
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by mudita 5y ago
"Ermüdungsgesellschaft" is indeed the original title, it was written in German and published in 2010. The translated English version came out in 2015.
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by mudita 5y ago
The term Bonhoeffer used is "Dummheit". As a German "stupidity" seems to be a more accurate translation to me.
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by mudita 5y ago
I wonder if it would make sense to do backward search, even if the forward and backward branching factors are very different. For example if the branching factor for forward search is 10 vs. 100 for backwards search, wouldn’t it make sense
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by mudita 5y ago
I am not sure whom you mean, when you talk about "tech people”, but just in case you’re not aware: The author of the blog post is Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics.
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by mudita 5y ago
I really like the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the powerful, but sometimes cryptic imagery and how she plays with language, the use of alliterations.... Sorry, that's very generic things to say about poet, but there's something in her
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Would you like some advice?(notebook.drmaciver.com)
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My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown(danlawton.substack.com)
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