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by scandox 5y ago
I don't see any evidence of dualism in the article. I think it makes sense that as people try to make intelligent machines we will find out more and more about what that means. The goalposts shift themselves until perhaps one day you
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by scandox 5y ago
Discussion can be good, but I sometimes find that I'm happy to see no comments under something that is just of interest and doesn't really require comment.
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by scandox 5y ago
Personally I'd find the pure storage and basic categories suitable. I dislike almost all the algorithms. Especially "memories" and shit like that. Simple and reliable backup and reasonably speedy browsing is what I need.
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by scandox 5y ago
Yeah I have this about scarves ever since I read about how Isadora Duncan died.
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by scandox 5y ago
He fell off a Yacht. > It has been speculated that Maxwell was urinating into the ocean nude at the time, as he often did. He was presumed to have fallen overboard from the vessel, which was cruising off the Canary Islands, southwest Spa
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by scandox 5y ago
Well in the US it is apparently 0.9 USD per liter. In Ireland for example it is 1.8 USD per liter. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
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by scandox 5y ago
You're right - they're not really hard. Dealing with their consequences can be though. The real problem is that they are tacked on solutions...and that's why you end up with things like ARC ( https://en.wikipedia.or
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by scandox 5y ago
> This has some merit, for example, when it comes to alcohol - you can go from being addicted to alcohol, to having a social drink once a week. To anyone who has experience of alcoholism from any angle...this is absurd.
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by scandox 5y ago
In Ireland we do say bollocks or Bollix meaning a person who broadly speaking is difficult to deal with.
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by scandox 5y ago
I found it really easy to pay them 10$ per month. Clicked the paypal "P" in the top right corner and set it up in a few clicks. The main busy work was logging in to Paypal since I don't stay logged in there and use 2FA.
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by scandox 5y ago
Yes I'm afraid they're trying to Wicker Man this up to 11. Basically some bollocks half knocked down his house. "The House that got partially knocked down by someone with small regard for abstract property rights".
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by scandox 5y ago
My feeling is that if it was used in the context of cinema/feature film then yes it would be kitsch. But for the medium of TV of the era it strikes me as a bit of intelligent fun.
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by scandox 5y ago
Respectfully disagree on Spielberg. Many episodes from the early series show exceptional visual flair. Watch the opening sequence of Publish or Perish or the post murder cover up from Death Lends a Hand. Spielberg was young and had enormous
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by scandox 5y ago
A fiancee who will sit with you sorting pennies? That's true love.
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by scandox 5y ago
You are harmed by the drug trade. You live in a society where a totally unregulated industry allows bad people to get very rich and exercise illegitimate power through violence and corruption. You live in a society where young people become
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by scandox 5y ago
I honestly thought most people would recognize it. It just reads so well as a prose comment, that I didn't want to spoil its beauty.
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by scandox 5y ago
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,
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by scandox 5y ago
"It is folly to increase your wisdom at the expense of your authority" - Sir Humphrey Appleby The problem with so many of these cognitive improvements we can make for ourselves is that they are often cognitively speaking weaknesse
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by scandox 5y ago
This is a very slippery slope. Writers imbibe all kinds of details from life, from gossip, from their families....writers are interested in people's lives. The only difference here is the apparently stark difference of her using social
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by scandox 5y ago
I find the cure to this frustration is to accept that everything I love is obsolete and that it's OK. As you say there are historical periods we now look back upon and say objectively they took a step backwards in terms of skill and ar
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by scandox 5y ago
The very excellent effect of Ma's downfall is that it will remind wealthy people in the West that democracy has its good points. Much easier to sympathize with the expropriation of a Billionaire than some schlub from the middle of nowh
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by scandox 5y ago
> it is also instrumentally rational How is it meaningful to say that a goal or project is instrumentally rational? It may be instrumentally rational to pursue a goal or project without regard to the means and only focusing on the ends..
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by scandox 5y ago
This is a much better source of information than the headline link. It describes how this came about, what its limitations are and just gives a whole lot more context. Of course it fails to advocate - which itself may have become a vice.
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by scandox 5y ago
And sarcasm
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by scandox 5y ago
Why do we believe people when they say they work hard or used to work hard? Most successful people I've observed at close quarters box clever and definitely never fully switch off with respect to their interests. But work hard as in sl
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by scandox 5y ago
Bezmenov is great fun but he's hardly trustworthy. His whole professional life was in propaganda. It's like the scorpion crossing the river on the foxes back. He just has to sting.
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by scandox 5y ago
Chemical-Visual art criticism ... Could be a whole new field.
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by scandox 5y ago
I liked how the TS Eliot one which the author calls "sublime" was actually impressively sophomoric. It really was like a painting an able, shallow person would come up with to reflect their idea of TS Eliot's poetry. That in
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by scandox 5y ago
> I do a lot of sitting quietly, with my mind almost empty of thought. This is a totally natural state. There's nothing wrong with it and if you want a change of mind then I suggest you let it happen. And probably get off social me
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by scandox 5y ago
I am an adherent of bangernomics[1]. I don't care at all about cars. But right now I just don't have the knowledge to buy a second hand EV. It's too risky and things are changing too fast. I'm afraid until there's a

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