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by simbolit 3y ago
Winston and Julia go out into the countryside, they each take different trains, then meet at a pre-arranged location in the middle of nowhere, and then go out into the literal woods, to talk (and have sex), and they are still paranoid under
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by simbolit 3y ago
You would think controlling what the world watches via algorithms with no oversight whatsoever would be a valuable thing to have. But having that AND getting ad money is more valuable, of course, so they do it.
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by simbolit 3y ago
https://piped.video https://piped.kavin.rocks https://yewtu.be
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by simbolit 3y ago
The person with the male voice is sharing their screen with GPT4, then uses a voice interface to ask GPT4 what to do next. The computery-sounding female voice is ChatGPT4 answering, via a text-to-speech interface. The app used is Blender, a
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by simbolit 3y ago
Easy way to find out: Name an alternative.
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by simbolit 3y ago
The very least you could do is use the proper title: Ayn Rand (1966/1979) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology it can be found on libgen, if people are really interested. (It's not a good book.)
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by simbolit 3y ago
If you have an internet archive account (and even free market fanatics should have), these are 328 pages you might want to read: https://archive.org/embed/isobjectivismrel0000elli Albert Ellis (1968) Is Objectivism a r
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by simbolit 3y ago
Perfectly happy with haven given you this impression.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Can agree with what you write.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Yes.
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by simbolit 3y ago
The idea that Ayn Rand is a philosopher in any meaningful sense is very debatable. She was an author of fiction, like Terry Pratchett. Lots of people draw philosophical inspiration from Pratchett, but that doesn't make him a philosophe
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by simbolit 3y ago
> today's philosophy is a junk drawer of dead-end intellectual projects that never yielded anything useful I hold multiple degrees in philosophy and this is a correct description (for >95% of what happens in academic philosophy).
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by simbolit 3y ago
Back when I used android devices, I used https://streetcomplete.app/ - great user interface, it directs you to a location and asks you simple questions.
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by simbolit 3y ago
I don't want to judge prematurely, but have you ever thought about the possibility that perhaps you are the problem?
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by simbolit 3y ago
Depends what your goal is. If you want to feel appreciated, I agree, wikipedia is a horrible place. If you want to contribute to making human knowledge available to everyone, it's the best place we have. My personal rule: don't in
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by simbolit 3y ago
Serious question: did you try pexels? for most of my stock photo needs they are okay (not great but okay), and all pictures are public domain and free of charge. They don't have stock video tho. :(
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by simbolit 3y ago
If that exists, the company should be shut down for gross negligence, even before they go bankrupt.
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by simbolit 3y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188614
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by simbolit 3y ago
I am confused. Can someone please give some context for this slideshow? Thanks!
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by simbolit 3y ago
If you buy a device that relies on a server connection for functioning, you might legally own it, but it essentially is 'on loan' by the company. Well, you could always strip it for copper, I guess...
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by simbolit 3y ago
Have you played "Death Stranding"? There you 'actively' walk and 'manually' keep balance. It's an interesting experience, but it makes walking a conscious act, it becomes something you do. Arguably that is
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by simbolit 3y ago
> ai enhanced filming. You film in questionable quality, and you feed that to the machine model that is a promised "coming soon" feature of the new google phone. as it is "coming soon" nobody knows whether it delivers
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by simbolit 3y ago
Henry Kissinger won the Peace Prize 1973 for ending the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Thanks for correcting me, I am just an idiot with a Wikipedia addiction.
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by simbolit 3y ago
Economics is not actually a Nobel Prize, which leaves us with 5: Literature - unlikely Peace - I can construe some scenario, but - again - unlikely. Physiology or Medicine - For the Apple Watch? Chemistry - unlikely, they don't do fund
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by simbolit 3y ago
"Lighting matters more than any camera, more than any lens." This.
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by simbolit 3y ago
The AI-bro fantasy is of AI building a smarter AI, which then builds an even smarter one. If this isn't extrapolation, does it exist?
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by simbolit 3y ago
From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang ): "Thirty-four Indonesian scientists signed a petition questioning the motives and methods of the Hilman-Arif team. Archaeologist Víctor Pérez describe
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by simbolit 3y ago
iPad safari user: for some reason the page doesn't scroll in portrait. When i rotate the device into landscape everything is fine. Odd.
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by simbolit 3y ago
In the 90s I had to wait for every webpage to load, every time. In the early 00s, it got a little faster, but still, a lot of waiting. Yet, somehow, the web was a much more pleasant experience.

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