scalio

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by scalio 10y ago
> Enrichment from market-tested betterment will go on and on and, over the next century or so, will bring comfort in essentials to virtually everyone on the planet That smells strongly of the same kind of delusion that fuels capitalism,
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by scalio 10y ago
> We yearn to reprogram existence, and with the computer we have the best means yet. Indeed, we have today the means to build an entirely new world with new rules completely unbound from the physical realm. However, we can't escape
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by scalio 10y ago
To an extent, I agree with your first point. Should a big mass of people suddenly 'come into the light' and realize they can do whatever the fuck they want, that could become a problem. No need to look far, capitalism is just the
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by scalio 10y ago
I think this has to do with a certain short-sightedness concerning achievements, purchases, general life decisions... Is there a particularly good reason why a degree would make you happy? It'll land you a good post at a high-paying co
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by scalio 10y ago
I think a lot would be your answer. Not strictly new as a concept, kids get raised to hunt happiness. Every stupid action movie that ends with a big party, celebrities whose job it has become to look happy, every ad promoting x because it
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by scalio 10y ago
Indeed, when I say life has no meaning, I don't mean that it is devoid of rules. Quite the contrary is true, since our modern life revolves around mathematics. In that sense, the universe is exquisitely meaningful, it's full of ma
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by scalio 10y ago
> You have found happiness when the idea "life is meaningless" seem obvious and irrelevant. Precisely. To the best of our knowledge, we're just robots. There is no meaning behind the universe, it just kinda, is . The real
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by scalio 10y ago
It's all much more fun with an over-sensitive (broken) home button at a festival. Random calls for everyone!
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by scalio 10y ago
What is such a fabulous cloud made of? Broccoli? Or maybe still only a datacenter ?
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by scalio 10y ago
Just do it. Seriously, moving away from fb is important, but it won't be seen as such as long as people like you don't flat out refuse to use the crap. It's worked out extremely well personally, drastically cutting down on so
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by scalio 10y ago
Also, creative thinking seems to rely on long thought chains in order to build complete things. Amongst others, self-interrupting every couple minutes is what made my creativity tank over the past years (and my ability to get lost in a book
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by scalio 10y ago
We are told we need knowledge about some things in order to make money and subsequently not to starve. We are supposed to gain this knowledge in school and maybe uni, and then head off to a grand career. I mostly agree with this idea (not s
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by scalio 10y ago
Good example, I think it is easier to dislodge old tractors with tools built for one specific thing, i.e. that do less, but do it so much simpler that they're just a joy to use (at least in comparison).
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by scalio 10y ago
Made me remember that recent app update on android that requested access to some sensitive things. Plus I've developed a habit of inverting anything coming out of a PR department to see if it makes more sense. Definitely does in this c
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by scalio 10y ago
Judging from the comments, there's a massive misunderstanding going on between the readers, the author, and everyone's understanding of ourselves. There are certainly odd things in this article. What I think the author wants to ge
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by scalio 10y ago
I would say a person who rarely stops to think about what it all means, what it's for, any kind of existential question, is not as conscious as somebody who reflects daily on wether or not they've done a good job at not becoming a
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by scalio 10y ago
Yes, google certainly isn't the best we can do in terms of finding stuff, but I think the sheer amount of data they're gathering enables the algorithms to appear more intelligent than they really are by processing more instead of
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by scalio 10y ago
I think a neat solution is home-serving. A little box with big storage which acts as a hub for your family's digital life. It relays all your devices, gathers all info they're spitting out, and works on it. Results are fed back to
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by scalio 10y ago
> “We are trying to best meet the needs of our community despite budget cuts in the last few years, the greediness of commercial publishers, and the weak Canadian dollar," Money's short, thus expenses have to be cut somewhere.
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by scalio 10y ago
(edit) ooh fucks sake. just spent three hours crafting the most elaborate of all fucking responses, hit reply, and the session cookie has fucking expired. guess i'll my lesson. also won't type it all up again just now, but when i
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by scalio 10y ago
I disagree with your first point. If you are a conscious person that tries to know itself and you are not built so weirdly as to slip into mental distress, then I think there is little limit to what you can do with your brain, and by extens
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by scalio 10y ago
History, for one. So we could finally stop repeating the same idiotic errors over and over and over again. (edit) I wouldn't teach history either by forcing students to learn dates or locations by heart. Have the teachers respond to th
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by scalio 10y ago
Sorry, I did not mean more, but better education, so that by the time you get out of school, you can use your brain. That includes for example little things like reading food stickers to judge wether the ingredients are appropriate or not.
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by scalio 10y ago
The solution is obvious: education. Education, education, education. Making it a truly common good will require a massive shift in the way most people are brought up in the west, which is why it won't happen over a couple years but rat
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by scalio 10y ago
Bingo. I've come to realise myself, cooking something very edible is not hard. Buy a physical cook book so as to not get distracted on the internet, and just try some things. The first couple tries at a new recipe might turn out slight
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by scalio 10y ago
> Manually picking up every food item and reviewing the list of ingredients by hand in the middle of grocery store does not comport with [accomodating the median IQ] I don't know how the situation looks in the US, but in Europe, the
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by scalio 10y ago
Right on. The masses that can't be bothered to willingly switch on a couple neurons every now and again are the real problem. We "the People" have unbelievable power once we unite behind an issue. Only problem is, the vast ma
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by scalio 10y ago
The thing is, whoever John Doe is, he or she is probably right. Maybe you should read http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise... and connect some dots. Try thinking about the issue f
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by scalio 10y ago
Most quality of life reports include ratings that are some variation on "average monthly income", meaning this nowadays pretty arbitrary measure of wealth aka money that you have no control over is factored into how happy you&#x27
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by scalio 10y ago
In the same vein, it seems to me that TTP and TTIP are one thing just sliced up geographically to make it appear less big, less of a one-stop solution for screwing the world. When in reality, these two "agreements" are giving west

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