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by naringas 6y ago
> So they don't really exist > because only atoms exist but don't only exist because humans call them atoms?
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by naringas 6y ago
There's also an ongoing 'cultural revolution' in which older artistic creations are being reassesed by modern political correctness. (see the recent ebay and Dr. Seuss news for a most recent example) I find this "revisio
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by naringas 6y ago
> At what point did Bill become an expert on everything? When he made billions in a society which values making billions above (almost) everything else
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by naringas 6y ago
And I say that Microsoft's fundamental innovation (I'm referring to the practice of licensing software) is bad for society.
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by naringas 6y ago
Looks like this is only good for people whose chief activity is "owning stuff". Everybody else (specifically people who actually execute actions, build stuff) loses.
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by naringas 6y ago
I don't see it as waste, I see it as the cost of decentralized trust (no such thing as free lunch). The way I see it, it's either "burn" the energy in proof of work (the machines leave behind only heat and bitcoin) or le
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by naringas 6y ago
do you mean "yaweh" ?? all this reminds me of the way they treat the evil wizard's name "voldemort" in harry potter
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The internet as we know it is doomed(thehypothesis.substack.com)
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by naringas 6y ago
this is the kind of tool that I assumen every intelligence agency in the world already has implemented as a service for their 'agents'
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by naringas 6y ago
> Those who know about us have power over us. I'm not sure about this, those who can change our behavior have power over us. knowing somebody does not necessarily mean I have power over said somebody. likewise, there are things that
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by naringas 6y ago
> visual in 3D I cannot see in visual 3D. If anything I can see in strictly bigger than 2D. (a flat 'screen' with a tinge of depth perception, which I fear I don't make much use of when I spend most of my time in front of
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by naringas 6y ago
the phonetic alphabet is a brilliant invention. made by thousands of people over thousands of years. the least studied 'character' of this alphabet is the most imporant, the most critical character in any phonetic alphabet is the
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by naringas 6y ago
> I counter argue that anthropomorphizing of animals is fundamentally flawed. and I further retort that humans are animals, and that classifying humans into "something other than animals" is fundamentally flawed. Why are so man
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by naringas 6y ago
"Bankers and financeers deserve their pay because they take all the risk" *in theory* they do. after all, a lot of these financial-like practices (stock ownership, and such) are the legacy of oceanic trading trips, which are very
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by naringas 6y ago
my original post answers the question posed by its title (but in an unrelated way)
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by naringas 6y ago
I have thought for a while now that Lobbying[1] is legitimized corruption [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
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by naringas 6y ago
I'm not talking about myths under a precise definition (as in stories to make sense of the world), rather mythology in the rougher sense of the way we think about our ancestors and people from the past (in the vein of "the good ol
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by naringas 6y ago
> is pretty unforgiving to any thoughts that don't fit one of a couple of echo chamber themes. sounds better in ther converse: "it's pretty forgiving of thoughts that do go along the predilect tropes"
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by naringas 6y ago
so I expand: but of course, this is not an answer; it's an explanation in the style of the surreal way in which I have chosen to make sense of the larger world around me. however, who am I to chose how to make sense of the world? who a
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by naringas 6y ago
because this period of history is being rewrriten in the public culture to reifnorce myths about the present and so influence (softly control) the future edit: the first sentence gets downvoted. I both expected and felt bad about it.
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by naringas 6y ago
all kinds of "secrets laws" and secret government stuff is the opposite of democracy. any country that does this cannot say it's a free democracy without lying. (it seems there exist no free countries). if the law is this cor
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by naringas 6y ago
"falsehoods developers believe about screens" ?
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by naringas 6y ago
similarly to how C# is very much java.net ??
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by naringas 6y ago
My point is not about copyright but about "Intellectual Property"
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by naringas 6y ago
I disagree, what you describe is the extreme version of what I am worried about. I'm not worried that about an external entity owning my entire mind. I'm worried about a society in which institutions and corporations have ownershi
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by naringas 6y ago
what worries me is that our mind (at the very least mine and all like it) are ultimately intellectual constructions. thus intellectual property leads the way to mind property. how can it be that if I know something, this knowledge is not mi
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by naringas 6y ago
does it look normal sized? I ask because I know from pictures and the internet that (for instance) Petra is not human sized
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by naringas 6y ago
then again, it was not its job
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by naringas 6y ago
I like the idea of judging our beliefs based on what they do for us, personally-individually, and collectively (which is very political and gets tricky very fast) also, I like exercising my freedom of belief (a personal individual freedom).
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by naringas 6y ago
> YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. ...freedom. the trick is that these are aspirations. they are not realities and they will never be due to being perfect ideals ("idealities"). so IMO we must acknowledge that we

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