swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
You have to give up a piece of sanity too. Because knowledge ain't real. And, for the true philo of sophy, there's a tipping point. (To paraphrase HP Lovecraft.)
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It's like building a working human heart out of emojis. I don't care how crafty you are, it ain't gonna work.
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"intellectual" evolution seems composed of selecting a bias, then selecting a bias within that bias, and so on. It's a terribly reductive process. And the foundation of biases is deep and invisible. Moving in the opposite dir
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ever entered a room and immediately forgot why you came in? Dream might be much the same. Memory could be attached to context. Change the context extremely and you lose the associated memories. And dream is an extreme change of context.
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Society's technological obsession of the hour invariably dominates philosophical discourse. The metaphors are clearly visible and within easy reach, so it makes perfect sense. Hunting, fishing, agriculture, clockwork, steam, electronic
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According to ChatGPT, computation is the foundation of reality. I think he's being serious here. No irony.
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After much thought I have decided that thought is central to this whole thing. Anybody who disagrees is dreaming. EDIT Satire is lost on you people.
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Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making things? You are interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving, practically dead yourself. Playing with a little
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by swayvil 2y ago
Throw him to the ground most roughly! Persecute, villify and downvote the cheeky scoundrel!
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That'll teach me to consume 3rdhand news. :) But ya, if we were a little more totalitarian we could just flip a few settings in their phone via the school admin control. Do we trust each other or don't we? So schizo.
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I'd jam the cell signal and force them to go through the school wifi. Then they could control permissions.
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Why don't they just jam them?
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>sore deformations Is that what's referred to as a "wen"? (Onomatopoetic term, that. Think of how you'd talk with a golfball in your mouth)
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Hey man I'm into meditation too. Nice to meet you.
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There are none so confident as the ignorant. Ask an artist what's art? Hell no.
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We should ask an artist if it's art. The testimony of an expert firsthand witness is vastly superior to interpretation of a secondhand abstraction by inexpert persons.
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The hand is wiser than the mind. Doing art via the mind is like breathing through a soda straw. Mind promises and promises but just keeps missing the mark. I can make a perfect line with my hand in a moment. I can spend a year creating a &q
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I skimmed 5 pages down looking for the darn temperature of disentanglement with no luck. Could one of you more perseverant readers enlighten me?
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Your head is like an island. All directions lead out. Which says something about how you might be travelling normally.
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Drugs that are not-trippy at a small dose sometimes get trippy at a large dose.
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A search engine's first job is to cull the crap. To distinguish the good from the bad. Thus a personalized search engine could double as a forum moderator. And you could share search engines. Get a copy of the search engine of somebody
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A river of sensations. A play of attention. That's reality. The rest is fiction.
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We do not craft models of reality because reality and models have any kind of intrinsic connection. We craft models of reality because we value models. That is arguably very funny.
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Maybe you need a good mystery. I too had a big long project. But the moment I solved the main design riddle I couldn't bear the sight of it. A proper mystery gets peeled back to reveal more, and more. Design can be incestuous tho. Afte
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by swayvil 2y ago
Is "person of color" still a thing? It always struck me as too close to "local color". It's just clumsy writing.
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I can think of a worse habit.
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"Engineering" reflects the popular way of thinking. So when magic is explained for the popular mind it looks like engineering.
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What we're told is realer than what we see.
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Ya but they call it something different. I forget what. Maybe "death cultists".
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Everybody other than the artists love that "presenting her submission" part. Better than the piece. Better than the essay about the piece. They want the summation of the essay of the piece. Preferably with an associated pic of a c

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