nathias

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by nathias 7y ago
Technology is not morally neutral, it is always immediately good (as a new tool that extends our agency) but can be of course used to cause greater evil. Quantum supremacy is one of the greatest things humanity will have ever achieved, righ
1682.
by nathias 7y ago
people are like slowly boiling frogs, google stopped not being evil a long time ago
1683.
by nathias 7y ago
if you feel you can trust Google today, you'll probably feel the same way in the future, regardless of what happens
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by nathias 7y ago
what about a right not to be manipulated (transparency of algorithms)
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by nathias 7y ago
I like Tarkovsky's fluid scenes but there was no reason to make the story worse. Lem was trying to make sci-fi into high art and despised the plot-twist endings common in American sci-fi, which is what Tarkovsky does to the story.
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by nathias 7y ago
Tarkovsky butchered Solaris.
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by nathias 7y ago
bad title, good article
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by nathias 8y ago
It's not a luxury, its a basic fact of life, staying in a job is a decision that you are making.
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by nathias 8y ago
Do you think being a skinhead is a requirement for listening to a skinhead band?
1690.
by nathias 8y ago
Can you read while driving a car or a bike?
1691.
by nathias 8y ago
if you don't like what you're doing, stop doing it
1692.
by nathias 8y ago
Intelligence can stop you from believing in something obviously false, education in science can cure some of the naive and false methodology and epistemology of common sense, but neither can be a substitute for philosophy.
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by nathias 8y ago
Plato - Meno, Symposium, Parmenides, Gorgias, Protagoras Plotinus -Enneads Markus Aurelius - Meditations Descartes - On method Descartes - Meditations Spinoza - On the improvement of Understanding Leibniz - Monadology Leibniz - Grace Voltai
1694.
by nathias 8y ago
not the computer but the room itself
1695.
by nathias 8y ago
think for a second if your 'reasons' can be applied to any invention in general and reflect on that for a while
1696.
by nathias 8y ago
the truly disturbing thing is that there exists a group of people that think they can make ethical decisions for others and that people think that has any merit whatsoever
1697.
by nathias 8y ago
love the concept and the name, but it isn't working (IPFS error)
1698.
by nathias 8y ago
Why would anyone be happy with the money they have in a world where the next day your fortune may change and you lose it all? Capital is a self-hosted safety net.
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by nathias 8y ago
Induction is a heuristic, it establishes a pattern but not it's necessity.
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by nathias 8y ago
try toxic
1701.
by nathias 8y ago
and the world is hard(er) because people are dumb
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by nathias 8y ago
why not? it's working properly and it's better structured