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by psyc 4y ago
Denying the validity of the concept of sex, on color-of-medical grounds, is ubiquitous (online anyway) by now. I had a brief and unsettling flash-forward earlier. Twenty brief years have passed, and I'm a card carrying senior citizen.
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by psyc 4y ago
"Forever. Ha. In my experience it's a little bit longer than most people expect." Westworld
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by psyc 4y ago
I discovered transhumanism around the turn of the century. I thought I'd found a treasure trove of insight. I was all about it for 3 or 4 years. Told people who weren't interested all about it. It was really easy to believe in rad
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by psyc 4y ago
The growing up part was good. As a late teen, not being able to get to anyplace that mattered was maximally soul crushing, yes. The sole source of my suffering for several years.
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by psyc 4y ago
If it'll get people to stop accusing other people of anthropomorphizing, I'm 100% on board. Now if you can think of a way to get people to quit asking for definitions of the words intelligence and consciousness , you'll be
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by psyc 4y ago
I'm fine with these things insofar as they are factually in service to a substantial undertaking. The routine cannot be the undertaking, nor am I impressed by such a routine in search of an undertaking. The camera should only be on the
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by psyc 4y ago
It shows that we don't think the poison pill is going to poison us.
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by psyc 4y ago
If you don't know what you're talking about, it's good form to lead with that.
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by psyc 4y ago
Please. A million people have gotten back on the horse after having terrifying trips, myself included. Oh, you said might
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by psyc 4y ago
Dennet's Consciousness Explained doesn't do what the title suggests, but it is great for stuff like this. I think there's at least one section on the brain retroactively time-stamping past events.
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by psyc 4y ago
This isn't comparing like with like. You moving your gaze to something else on purpose is not a saccade. Those are unconscious.
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by psyc 4y ago
Yes. The users. TikTok is unique (afaik) in that every new video is shown to a sample group of real users, and its performance evaluated. If it does well in that group, it's shown to a larger group. If it continues to do well, it'
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by psyc 4y ago
In all of the TikTok praise threads we've had here, this is the first time I can remember ever seeing anybody mention what I personally believe is a killer distinguishing feature. TikTok's algo guarantees that every video will app
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by psyc 4y ago
Twelve years ago the userbase was much smaller, and a lot more people used real names either verbatim or stylized. It was much, much easier to know who people were. Now it's the same for me. Outside a handful of old timers that I recog
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by psyc 4y ago
Lecturing being a punishment is too flimsy a proposition to build a credible argument on top of. Hardly anyone could see it that way for more than a few seconds without pulling a muscle. At worst it's simply asserting your status as th
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by psyc 4y ago
I’m not sure who asked you to ghostwrite my autobiography, but thanks. Saves me the trouble. Minor correction though: my cathedral is my dream game, or more accurately whatever my dream game is in the present.
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by psyc 4y ago
That's exactly what it was like for me. I played with it for a couple of months. I had a tendency to frown at, SMDH at, rubberneck some dumb videos for a half second too long it seems. That magical FYP of great stuff never happened for
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by psyc 4y ago
In the US it's a title and nothing more. And an HR one, not a legal or otherwise formal one. An HR title. Don't listen to anybody who tries to tell you that programmers with 'engineer' in their title are more 'rigor
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by psyc 4y ago
I've lived in about 15 different locations, and the only names I recognize are in very major cities, and one 2nd-largest-in-state city. I have the impression that I've heard of famous people coming from the other towns in the past
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by psyc 4y ago
Or the Content & Communications guy.
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by psyc 4y ago
Moist widely elicits this reaction because by the inviolable rules of English grammar, it can only ever modify two things. Cake, and vaginas. And towelette. Three things. But no more.
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by psyc 4y ago
I did as well when I watched every episode earlier this year. I kept on scrutinizing it (and I am normally a hyper-critical TV viewer) but aside from some slight "off-ness" in a few episodes roughly around the time they changed th
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by psyc 4y ago
This was the raison d'etre for Bézier curves. Its inventor and re-inventor worked at car companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Invention
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by psyc 4y ago
I've been both a game programmer, and a computer graphicist coveting photorealism, for ~30 years. In my opinion, this is exactly right. Photorealism is and was never going to put artists out of a job. But other algorithms... might. I c
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by psyc 4y ago
In other words, shithead humans took over, took control, and made sure it works like every other dull shithead archaic human organization in history. And the deletionists can say they aren't because there's no such thing, because
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by psyc 4y ago
Just as myself and most of my friends and acquaintances all started using FB because we’d all started using it, we also all stopped using it because we’d all stopped using it.
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by psyc 4y ago
Payed-For Physical Objects As A Service strikes again.
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by psyc 4y ago
I play mini golf, regular golf, and poker with my brother in law, who's 2000 miles away.
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by psyc 4y ago
I'm pleased to hear that anyone is still teaching anyone anything about sockets. The bit about Windows not treating sockets as files made me pause, since Windows does treat so many things as files. After thinking about it some, I suppo
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by psyc 4y ago
Communicating with big tech at least keeps the word kafkaesque alive.

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