smitty1e

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by smitty1e 10mo ago
Serious question: how can one be sure that there is "evolution" occuring?
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
I'm relatively confident that reproduction occurred both long before, and will continue long after, the existence of the market in question.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
One possible distinction is found in that fact that Nationlism is a Procrustean mold to which all must conform, whereas Patriotism still respects individual expression and dissent.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
More explicitly, then, "evolutionary" implies some grasp of a direction toward which things evolve. Otherwise, it's just so many chemical reactions.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
What I'm questioning is how we got to 'sensible' here.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
What I will argue is something like Plato's Tripartite Soul[1] with the proviso that these are orthogonal dimensions. Free Will, in this telling, exists on the logos/eros plane of the individual. Destiny is some target on the plan
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
The reason I don't think Destiny can amount to more than a "very vague bad guess" as an intellectual matter is that such a solution would tamper with Free Will.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
I don't find it contradictory to subscribe to both an individual Destiny and an "universal scope" Destiny of which the individual Destiny is a component. This Destiny is in tension with Free Will (in my telling). In retiremen
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
"Evolitionary" implies some direction and execution scope, does it not? Possibly I'm guilty of over-reading the word.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
Is there a differentiation between nationalism and patriotism? I happen to think that the Founders had a (generally) better set of ideas in 1787, and that those ideas are being replaced by ersatz slogans.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> Most people judge themselves against a narrative that matters to them. Most people do not want to cast themselves as a villain in their story. This is a reasonably assertion as far as it goes. At the risk of being a dripping faucet, I&
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> Result: we are ruled by the Unstained Incompetent. The system selects for people whose primary skill is avoiding decisions. These are not the people who will reform the system. They are the people the system was designed to produce. I&
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> Then congratulations, you probably lived a good life and contributed in positive ways to humanity. This seems thin gruel.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> The universe is meaningless and the world is cursed. Certainly a possibility.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> "What goes around comes around" suffices for me. As you say. Best wishes, in any case.
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> 3. Ethics matter. I don't believe there's any life after this one Serious, non-troll question: why bother? If there isn't any scope outside of the current perceived existence, and we're all so much "smart dirt&
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by smitty1e 10mo ago
> Can we prevent Nazis from using our software? Short of engaging in equally authoritarian control-freakery? I don't see how. I'm amused by one package author that I'll leave unnamed who has a list on his site enumerating
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The Legend of Kipp Hickman(feistyduck.com)
2 points by smitty1e 11mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Now do the pro-Gaza influencers.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Is this reinvention somehow "transactional" in nature?
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
BaaS, Trump As Receiving Default: BaaSTARD.
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Do (human) readers prefer AI writers?(marginalrevolution.com)
12 points by smitty1e 11mo ago|3 comments
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Thanks. I figured "Practice Dangerous to Security" was a Pretty Darn Silly breaking of the TLA.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
"We've made fat piles of cash off of dysfunctional software for decades," said Micrsoft.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Jamie Z[1] and Jay Z[2] walk into a bar... [1] https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 [2] https://youtu.be/60XTSx29OnM?si=BuLRkzoMahaHQIvB
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Installed this under Pop!_OS on the new System76 laptop and it seems to be working fine. If I have to use Teams, at least its not under 'Doze.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
The center is those getting flamed evenly from the 'left' and 'right'.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
> "climate denialism propaganda" Q.E.D.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
To use your terminology, the perception that Wikipedia is "ideologically captured" stands.
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by smitty1e 11mo ago
Wo Fat has you covered: "Analog Man" => https://open.spotify.com/track/6KcM6et6Pn6UIna1o8Vl07?si=qFu...

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