ripsawridge

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by ripsawridge 7y ago
Bartlett is the most amazing presenter nobody ever heard about. I like his talks/papers very much.
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by ripsawridge 7y ago
i upvote you because i agree with you.
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by ripsawridge 7y ago
Yeah, my leisure is running, meditation, hiking, playing guitar. Aside from driving to hike on occasion (or train), I don't consume more.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Nice. All philosophies (or religions, what have you) must be pursued with kindness for all beings first, last and middle.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Sorry for the long delay, I just saw your reply. I agree with you more than I disagree. That is -- facing truths is important. Suicide should not be a crime. A dignified death is often about knowing when to go, and that choice is the final
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
"Tell us how you really feel," asked no one, ever, but it's a free country so-- Yet another way to draw us away from actual connection with a painfully and joyously real world outside. Better to long to just once, enumerate a
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Maybe the tribal identity is muted in good times, when the greater, more complex societal organization offers advancement and the reasonable hope of attaining goals. But when inequality increases, when a grim determinism seems to hover over
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
There are subjective and unknowable states. The whole world is not inside your head. By asserting that the cells in my butt can't possibly love each other, you've made a pretty lifeless machine psychology that I don't have to
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Ridiculous. If the natural state of the world is "suffering, sex, and death," it's also joy, sex and birth. Sex is at least value neutral -- if you are going to sandwich it between suffering and death I may as well put it bet
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
What, is healing pure mechanics now? Like, the doctor is a programmer in a room far away and that's a good doctor?
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
"these theatrics we assign to conveying a few bits of information..." Really? You really are of the opinion that news about death is just "a few bits of information?" And you are capable of describing the ways humans att
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Is it possible that the outflow of people from a developing nation reduces population pressure in that nation such that population there increases?
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
For Chrome the TurboFan (jit optimizing compiler) Spectre mitigations are turned off when site isolation is on.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Maybe when this genie is out of the bottle everywhere it will convince us to re-prioritize face to face communication and simpler lives with less computing.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
"To clean the village we had to destroy it!" he said, wiping his brow. Nods of agreement and approval all around.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
This kind of statement is designed to provoke introspection resulting in a "resolve to do better." However, vast communities are not individuals. They don't have the capacity to "put two and two together." Whatever
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
There is an esoteric/occult idea that if you want something to stick around, you oppose it directly. Something "bad" (and I'd call the willful ignorance and lowest common denominator style of the current White House bad)
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Completely agree, +1.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Wow, thanks for the recommendation...this interview is blowing me away. So much insight.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Gorgeous, thanks for that!
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Amazing moderation, amazing response. Wow! Kudos to both of y'all.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Thanks! I'd quibble a bit with that though. I love the way Zen banishes ideas and concepts, throwing them into the fire the moment they reify. However there is a something. A something greater. That is very much the point. To perceive
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I would just ask you to imagine the world you are going to get if you think "growth at all cost" is what is necessary to survive. Won't it eventually be a world in which it's no longer possible to grow? I'm definite
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I saw the ideas presented as one of a long stream of similar ideas which have been presented, all of which shape a narrative that obscures more than it reveals. I happened to make a comment on this instance. It's great that you don&#x2
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Thanks, no.
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I also like for humanity to strive for better and better things. But do you get that mostly, "better" has just meant that someone else pays the cost? My point is that a real look into "better" will often (probably! Not n
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
Yes, good point. The enlightenment experience can't be explained in tidy bullet points. It doesn't even seem interesting to most people. You can't help but use paradox in your words, and then folks even get offended. I admi
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I think we should have room for people with many different preferences and intellectual interests. I would never ask someone to do a thing or live a way that they don't agree with. I'd only ask them to fully understand what their
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
I can't agree more! A big problem here is that merely to point to reasons for religions to come about (for example, that they solve real problems at the time of their appearance) is to "condone" every terrible thing that ever
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by ripsawridge 8y ago
The only thing our world needs now is a reorientation away from growth at all costs into a mode of life that values the simple, the close by, the cheap. I don't see this guy giving a damn about that problem. Instead he tosses off bon m

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