swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
I think it was intentional. A distraction.
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by swayvil 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526165624/https://samkriss....
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Eight Billion Hogs, Screaming(samkriss.substack.com)
2 points by swayvil 2y ago|1 comments
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by swayvil 2y ago
If the forum members are smart then "by popularity" is a good way to pick a moderator.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Yeah, it's deeply evil. But that's how the "lovers of power" think. No hell is too awful for anybody who dares cross them.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Democratic election of moderators seems like an obvious good idea. But nobody does it. Why do you suppose that is? EDIT : I guess hn sorta does this. Garner enough upvotes and they give you various powers.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I relate. But maybe we go back and peruse the dramatic threads now and then. See how the more violent personas are getting along.
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by swayvil 2y ago
why don't they have a little methane-detector-activated igniter? Burn it up before it gets away.
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by swayvil 2y ago
2 calamities so close together in space and time. It makes you wonder if there's a connection. They are both universally distracting. That's one special thing that they share. A conspiracist might suggest that our attention is bei
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by swayvil 2y ago
It's the other side of passing the Turing test. Assuming that the machine passes, what's next? What's next is a lot of people are fooled. Is it me or the machine that replaced me? Is it grandma, transmigrated into machineland
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by swayvil 2y ago
Our scientific revolution was based upon a hundred idle wealthy individuals who chose science as their preferred toy. UBI could make that happen again.
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by swayvil 2y ago
If you want your mind blown, Egan is the guy to do it. He writes proper hard sf. I'd recommend his earlier stuff over his later stuff tho.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Without the evidence of firsthand observation to stand upon, what have you got?
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by swayvil 2y ago
He meditated. He prayed. He fasted. He ate mushrooms. He dwelt in the wilderness. And by doing so he saw something more. Something realer than what is popularly called reality. But I won't do any of that. What I will do is read stories
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by swayvil 2y ago
Dig the purple anteater pix.
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by swayvil 2y ago
When we contemplate the edges of what could be, some think "what if I had more money?". Others think, "what if the world was a giant cupcake?". Those second guys are the scifi fans. Those first guys like politics.
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by swayvil 2y ago
And it stinks when they go that way. TOS went there a little. STD goes there all day.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Using science fiction to discuss politics is like using the Starship Enterprise to drive down to the corner grocery. Politics is small. Exploring the edges of reality is large.
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by swayvil 2y ago
A small city in southern il. Surrounded by prisons.The new home of choice for recently released prisoners. It's where all cities within 100 miles send their problem homeless. Primary industries: retirement communities, abortion service
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by swayvil 2y ago
I disagree. I think it totally belongs on HN. This method of censoring the unpopular. It can only lead to incest and mediocrity.
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by swayvil 2y ago
It's like the world is some kind of clockwork. Or computer. Or a field of barley? What metaphor are we using these days?
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by swayvil 2y ago
We outsource making food, building the house, taking care of the kids... Leaving us more time to focus on what matters : work. Ha ha.
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by swayvil 2y ago
"Muse". Lol. Good irony in that name. Like marrying your realgirl.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I love me a good rts but fancy graphics turn me off. Simple 2d, geometric, minimal would do me fine. I've heard similar from others. So save yrself the effort.
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by swayvil 2y ago
This sounds like that old pith : "we don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are"
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ah. Yes. Thank you.
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by swayvil 2y ago
That style of writing. It really goes down easy.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I heard that pigs, pre-selective-breeding, were pretty cute https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/images/uploads/_fullla...
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by swayvil 2y ago
Not smarter, just different. People in Germany speak German. I can't speak German. That doesn't make them smarter.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I meant that when you focus on one thing you ignore another. Great focus tends to create great blind spots.

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