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by swayvil 2y ago
I just got a new computer with windows 10 installed. First thing when it booted up, it asked me wher I live. Using that "fuzzy kindergarten teacher language". Ugh. Destroyed that abomination with a nice debian install.
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by swayvil 2y ago
An expression of disapproval is shitting now?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Well "trust in science" isn't actually science. It's authoritarianism. And we all know how that goes.
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by swayvil 2y ago
That's so dang cool.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I for one would appreciate a list of "software products that the world needs and if you made this then you could make some money". (Not a video game)
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by swayvil 2y ago
Experts may have a deep understanding etc but it's the imitators that you want to invite to the party.
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by swayvil 2y ago
That theme song. It still rattles in my head.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Maybe it was written by an AI. I'm serious. That a human would leave out that crucial component is indeed boggling. An AI. Writing and publishing a stream of mid-quality articles. With ads inserted. Profit. Occasionally insane.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Well, "control" is a fuzzy zone. There's temptation, confusion, marketing... I mean, you choose which direction to swim but there's also a current to contend with. It can be a fight.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Attention control seems to be a top cultivative practice. What you put your attention on, how long, etc. Good practice delivers health, sensitivity, kindness. Bad delivers bad health, bad behavior. Pleasure, habit and popularity is a bad gu
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by swayvil 2y ago
Hey, Total Recall. The movie. They did a thing like that.
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by swayvil 2y ago
It would change the art world for sure. Why craft emotionally evocative images or sounds when you can deliver it directly?
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by swayvil 2y ago
In sleep my fundamental thingy, "that which observes", is catapulted out of the matrix. To the shores of the outer world probably, further maybe. The stuff is real but hallucinating happens too. And I carry my universal translator
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by swayvil 2y ago
"Adequate explanation" is a tool of relatively small scope, dependent upon the judgment of individuals, which is of relatively great scope. If many individuals judge it "telepathy" then that carries weight. Let's no
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by swayvil 2y ago
What will we exchange? Language? Memories? Streams of sensory stuff? Because language is, in the big picture, very very small. And if we were going to exchange memories etc, we might have to encode it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I think that we, as a society, are really attached to language and convention. And telepathy is incompatible with that. So any evidence or argument for telepathy is voided. There is a mountain of anecdote, however.
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by swayvil 2y ago
A weird coincidence. In my search for sane discord servers I just happened upon one for satanists last night.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Have you ever entered a room and forgot why you entered the room? I think a similar thing happens in sleep. What happened in dream doesn't carry over into waking memory. And maybe vice-versa. It seems that memory splits when environmen
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by swayvil 2y ago
He may or may not have a valid point. But he stated it clearly and politely. And has been censored for it. And that is a bit messed up.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Is "lol" really appropriate in this context? Theses days it seems more like a nervous tic.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Speaking as a weird nerd (wn) A wn is disconnected from society. This gives him the power to think and act independently. The non-wn can't do that. (And, being disconnected like that, the wn is oblivious to a million social hints and c
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by swayvil 2y ago
Avoidance of labor was the point.
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> No-till (or no-dig) gardening. Step 1. Aerate using a broadfork. Such good exercise hmmm
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It worked fine. I lost my taste for both software design and weed.
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Madras, plaid, tartan. I can't tell the difference. It's a testament to the power of marketing. Aquatic cockroaches became haute cuisine. Digital clockworks became the world. Like the magicians of yore said, "theater is every
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by swayvil 2y ago
I used to use weed help solve software design riddles. The lesson being that "great focus" isn't everything.
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"False info" is a matter for debate. "Improve public discourse" too. Are we saying that the conversation is less angry when everybody basically agrees?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Well that isn't self-serving at all.
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by swayvil 2y ago
And the 13 year and 17 year cicada swarms are at their 300 year coincidence. It's a sure sign of something
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by swayvil 2y ago
The same could be said of any technology.

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