swayvil

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by swayvil 1y ago
My boss says the same thing about me.
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by swayvil 1y ago
In the game of politics we split one group away from another and get them to fight. This achieves several effects.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I installed it 5 days ago. Changed my sources and upgraded. It's got the latest Angband (4.2.5). Homestyle SDL ui.
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by swayvil 1y ago
To use a physical metaphor. Walled cities. Guarded wagon trains. Keep the barbarians at arm's length.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Reading is very drug-like. Staring for hours. Focusing your attention on this visually-inspired, elongated mental event. It alters your consciousness for sure. And we're pushing it on kids. Some of the most enthusiastic readers I know
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by swayvil 1y ago
There are always cultural biases. There are always choices of interpretation. Our science does not spring forth fully formed from the observation of phenomena after all
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by swayvil 1y ago
Science is a rather vague term. What you mean is the scientific culture popular in usa, europe etc. Which has definite biases in its vindication process.
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by swayvil 1y ago
The uneducated engineer addresses reality. The educated engineer addresses the best modern ideas about reality.
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by swayvil 1y ago
So the basic desire of the ruling class is to definitively control the underclass. And as the owners of tech (and everything else), the ultimate purpose of tech is to fulfill this desire.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Farmer's Markets too
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by swayvil 1y ago
AI by design can only repeat and recombine past material. Therefore actual invention is out.
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by swayvil 1y ago
There's a good and well known argument against that already. Don't distract from my point.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I agree. What's more, governance processes for the forum shouldn't be anonymous at all. I mean flagging, voting, moderator action etc. That's arguably the most important conversation here. Most in need of illumination by publ
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by swayvil 1y ago
Yes. But that isn't obvious. I asked for obvious. Obvious is "every time I do it I get a headache".
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by swayvil 1y ago
If we were using lead pipes and I spoke discouragingly about that, I'd be flagged and censored. Now it's the vaccine.
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by swayvil 1y ago
And those smart ones got vilified and banned from every forum for speaking disinformation, just like today.
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by swayvil 1y ago
How does this obvious badness manifest, exactly? I can drink water from a lead pipe all day and suffer not even a headache. EDIT I'm serious. What is the obvious manifestation? Because the manifestations I've heard of aren't
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by swayvil 1y ago
They'll laugh at us for trusting any information we get from social media, too. It's the epistemological equivalent of licking the floor of a public restroom.
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by swayvil 1y ago
That's what she, um, said.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Because engineers generally fail to catch such subtleties, righr?
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by swayvil 1y ago
Yellow Submarine, clearly.
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by swayvil 1y ago
"privacy friendly". Now there's a modern euphemism.
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by swayvil 1y ago
There are a dozen leaps of abstraction occuring before you arrive at "2 apples". You are differentiating, classifying, etc.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I wouldn't even go with particles. I'd call it a stream of sensations.
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by swayvil 1y ago
I for one never saw a "number 2" in the wild. But I'm a homebody.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Even counting and measurement are contrived abstractions. If any big ultimate truth is delivered it will probably be referring to our psychology.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Yeah but can we get a pretty picture out of it? A cool fractal is worth a thousand words.
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by swayvil 1y ago
Hey it got flagged. Why do we use anonymity for that? What's gained and lost by that?
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by swayvil 1y ago
We had these flourescents in our computer lab at school. They were light yet dark. On yet off. Crazy. Some weird color or flickering frequency. If you sat there for a couple of hours you would start to stink. Like, a weird stink. Some specu
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by swayvil 1y ago
It is a fine cure for arrogance too.

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