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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think of meaning in terms of Saussure's sign and signified. "The Earth orbits around the sun" for example, is literally a string of characters. As a sign, however, its correspondent signifier could be a diagram of the solar
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Feels like yesterday when I saw the same post for 1.7. Very happy things are coming along!
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by mxkopy 4y ago
There's no algorithm that generates artistic meaning. These neural nets allow you to employ arbitrary styles and techniques, but no AI can't come up with meaningful messages on its own...yet I imagine at its height, AI would make
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think it depends on what is doing the observing. If it's humans or conscious beings or something like that, then the admins could be keeping the precision perpetually out of our reach. If it's atoms or photons doing the observin
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't think continuous and discrete-with-arbitrary-precision are the same thing, maybe even to the degree where we can't use the latter as a universal approximation for the former. I think there are some cases where approximatin
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Not so clear to me. If some company flooded a river with heart attack inducing chemicals, would you say that's fine because not having heart attacks isn't a human right? I'll put it to you like this. If you believe there is a
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I've had experiences on psychedelics where my consciousness gets peeled back like an onion, with each layer being manifested by the drug as a separate voice. Things that we don't typically associate with an inner voice, like appra
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This is a normative fallacy. If people die because they didn't get healthcare, that doesn't mean they didn't deserve healthcare. I'd argue that everyone who needs a liver (which is not the same as a liver transplant )
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't think universality is a prerequisite for validity For that matter I guess I would disagree with the UN. Someone who forfeits their basic human rights, for example, would not be entitled to them. So in that sense they're no
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Make it OK for 2, 3 people to live in one "housing unit". The whole "out of the house by 20" thing is a pretty new and American idea. Intergenerational housing is going to be the future till this shit gets sorted.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I. Not having shelter kills. II. To not be killed is a basic human right. => Having shelter is a basic human right QED
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> That is why AGPL license is very important for some of us. +1 on this (and maybe also forced-anonymous donations?). I'd like to think in the 21st century we have solutions to the "whoever holds the purse strings" paradig
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Seems like 4chan x Twitter I do appreciate the return to the message board, thread-based format. But let's be real there's nothing new under the sun
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think that dilutes the meaning of "quality" to nothing. Like if someone says "that's quality work" or a "quality engineer" I think of something specific. For example I'd call a BMW a quality car. I
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Government work sometimes has the most stringent standards
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This. Sometimes being "terminally online" is better than the alternative until life circumstances change.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
>and the rest hate it. Source?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Imagine being a girl on HN. You see this cool map and see wow, not a lot of women I can look up to it seems. And you go to the comments and see someone agrees with you. OK cool, maybe people would start replying with some important women wh
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by mxkopy 4y ago
>a lower factor of actual inequalities in societies. You can't, and shouldn't compare independent circumstances. You can be poor and a man, you can be rich and a woman. >and you didn't jump out of your seat when this fi
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by mxkopy 4y ago
It's fair to say I was being counter-productive. But I think everything has its place. Some things are better off not produced.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
No, "boys in trailer parks" is decidedly not the same point as women being ignored. The fact that they are both equally relevant makes it utterly stupid that they are being talked about in the same place. If a separate top level c
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by mxkopy 4y ago
When, as a reaction to the simple statement that there are less women on this map than there could be, someone says "[women] aren't being ignored, poor people are being ignored", I don't need to assume good faith in that
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This isn't a nuanced important discussion rife with opportunities to learn or some such BS If the conversation was about how this map doesn't have a lot of women on it, how open and nuanced are you being when the first thing you s
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Nobody is arguing that being rich doesn't entail privelege. So why are you pointing that out? What purpose does it serve other than to distract from the original statement? To that point I'll not get distracted. https:/&#x2F
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Don't say the Mouse's name in vain?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't know, I think appreciating the difficulty of getting to Mars is important, and puts things in a perspective that Elon Musk doesn't seem to respect when making these claims - which to be fair no successful hype man ever esp
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by mxkopy 4y ago
IDK it's not like old money is some nonspecific abstraction that you can't characterize with some biases. Money drives a Ferrari, wealth doesn't drive and all that right?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This is incredibly funny. Here I am thinking the upper echelons operated like Thurn and Taxis, using signals too subtle for the common folk to notice. It's just a .com on the clearnet lmfao
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by mxkopy 4y ago
>People as a whole have about double as many female ancestors as they do male ancestors. I'll take your word for it, but I don't think that means "women bear multiple children with a small pool of highly desirable men...&q
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by mxkopy 4y ago
In nonwestern countries, polygamy is acceptable. I think it's obvious that people have preferences, and will seek partners that match those preferences better. But even if that's true, people have different preferences. People don

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