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by s_kilk 10y ago
While people are directing their attention here: Last year I looked into Common Lisp for a while, but got turned off when I found that there's no distinction between the empty list and boolean false (or nil, in CL-speak). I found this
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by s_kilk 10y ago
[I have my copy of GEB beside me] In GEB, Hofstadter talks about the Three Layers of Any Message: 1 - The Frame Message 2 - The Outer Message 3 - The Inner Message He uses the example of a "message in a bottle" washed up on the be
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I think the "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman had the greatest impact on me as a youngster. That series opened my mind to some really interesting ideas, and lead on to reading Milton, then taking up a general interest
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[Shameless plug] If you like randomly leafing through Meditations, I've made a site that would be right up your alley http://directingmind.com/
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Basically: neoliberalism is shit and everyone hates it. People who are deeply invested in this ghastly status-quo quake at the prospect of the proles finally demanding a less insane mode of economy, hence all the blithering about populism.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
The legendary early settlers of Ireland, the Nemedians (who would have later settled Scotland) came from Scythia: "Nemed, ... was the son of Agnoman of Scythia..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemed
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A Filco Majestouch, the one without the num-pad.
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It'll crater
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> It's clear the author meant true / general / strong AI Perhaps we need a new term to refer to "true" AI, preferably one that matches people's general notions of what an AI should be. "Synthetic Though
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That all sounds kinda weird and sketchy, like the recruiter had a strange hidden motive.
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Doom had a similar trick, the "Quit: Yes/No" prompt would say something like "I wouldn't quit if I were you, work is much worse".
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More recently the Spaniards have stated they won't block Scotland from joining the EU.
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> The people voted, not Cameron. Cameron only offered the Brexit referendum because he was afraid of the more far-right Tories going UKIP.
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Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break(medium.com)
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/s, I presume?
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Hence the Utilitarian label. The five-apple path is strictly better than the other.
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And what is the purpose of the law if not to benefit the people? Must we really defend the arbitrary malice of a system which inflicts harm for no benefit?
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Question: in what way is the public interest being served by ejecting this person from the country?
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You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
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But QT isn't cool enough for the JS crowd
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> you'd have to see the ( freely available, SFAIK ) film. For the curious: "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"
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Yup, probably the best way. Next weekend I might compile an ePub and add it to the site though
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by s_kilk 10y ago
[Shameless plug] You can read Marcus Aurelius "Meditations" at http://directingmind.com
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On the topic of puzzle games, you might enjoy The Witness: http://the-witness.net
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Because money.
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Indeed. I find it comical that some Americans think they don't have a Deep State.
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[Can't edit] I'll also concede the Gibson Les Paul is a wonderful piece of design too.
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The Fender Stratocaster
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> because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship Or because they were raking in money off the back of it.
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Reminds me of the time my team found a bug in the .Net C# compiler. A whole branch of an if/else statement was being ignored, as in, it simply wasn't present in the emitted IL. Adding a little `&& 1 == 1` to the conditiona

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