swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
I had this book. It was published tiny. Like 5x6. Not good. If you buy it you need a big one. Like 12". Great book tho. A feast, truly.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Has anybody modeled those singing bowls? That's a serious sine wave. Or I guess you could just generate a sine wave.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This might be how we create actual basilisks (see BLIT. It's a good science fiction short story : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) ) A million brainscans. A million images. Fed into an AI image gen.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Knowledge is an empowering thing. To transmit and copy it freely means empowering all of humanity. Therefore any constraint to that holds back humanity. Copyright is such a constraint.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Plausible nonsense of sufficient complexity and consistency as to seem real. It's trivial to generate. It casts every cherished truth into doubt.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Without labor to run their circus, 99% of business would disappear overnight. Without business, spam would disappear. So if you remove the labor you remove the spam. So the best spam filter is UBI.
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by swayvil 3y ago
What did you use to attach the foil?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I look at his work and feel love. What a great guy. Such depth, breadth and sensitivity. Forget collecting art. I think I'd rather collect artists. And he was a theosophist!
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by swayvil 3y ago
Scifi can deliver an illusion of understanding. A metaphorical description of something very strange that the reader never actually experienced firsthand. That's a deep kind of dream. Not saying the vision is entirely invalid, but mayb
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by swayvil 3y ago
Lol. Yes, I'd tell them that it's "for their health". Everybody likes that one.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Powerful people with poor taste is our primary problem. Lots of power but lacking the perception to use it properly. These wealthy unperceptive persons are perfect candidates for VR heaven. Being unperceptive they see no problem with that.
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by swayvil 3y ago
If only people would stop acting in their own benefit and increasing in power thereby.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We could reserve the scifi for an esoteric inner circle of enlightened thinkers. People better able to handle the fire of scifi without munging things up. The exoteric hoi polloi get pablum and propaganda. (They can't appreciate good s
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by swayvil 3y ago
Nature is capitalistic. Big fish eat little fish. A communist system would have to be a layer over a capitalist one. It would be maintained by a foundation of billionaire dictators. But, assuming a system controlled by billionaire dictators
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by swayvil 3y ago
The best government is a kind dictator. The best dictator is an immortal, brainlinked hivemind. Therefore scifi inspired tech will save us.
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by swayvil 3y ago
We have the freedom to choose among the options that they allow us.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Oh good one. It's like a game (video or otherwise). The entire narrative. What's good, bad, desirable, undesirable. The whole drama. Exists within the bounds of the game. Within that speck is "reality". Outside that spec
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by swayvil 3y ago
A bearded person who wears the mask religiously. Would you call that a believer or something else?
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by swayvil 3y ago
A smartphone that delivers an infinite buffet of hearsay isn't precisely smart.
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by swayvil 3y ago
To contradict the popular narrative. Shocking and appalling.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The mask. Now before you howl and point your finger. I still see guys with beards wearing masks religiously. People wearing them under the nose too. These intensely virtuous yet somehow irrational people. That mask got into their head. And
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by swayvil 3y ago
And yet, statistically speaking, it's a pretty good one. Like you're walking through a forest, a chaos of various species of tree, shrub, vine and etc, when suddenly you come across a field of corn. That stark monoculture screams
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by swayvil 3y ago
Then go with 98 Jesus, you people would eat a rock if I called it a sandwich.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Here's a heuristic for detecting psyops. When the public opinion becomes nigh uniform. When near 99% of everybody agrees. When you see them mouthing the same catchy phrases. That's a psyop. Because normally there are a dozen or mo
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by swayvil 3y ago
Observation of something strange, of course.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Haven't read this particular book but the Tibetans definitely package it as a preparatory and post-death service. Now that would be a doable product. Not sure about the karmic implications tho.
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by swayvil 3y ago
A thousand years from now they'll dig up smartphones and call them religious fetishes with no practical use. And all the evidence will support that. People need to read more scifi.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This text is is derived from observation. Yes, that weird stuff is real. The methods are difficult and strange, however. So it's no wonder that few are actually doing it. We're like cavemen who dug up the remnants of an ancient pa
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by swayvil 3y ago
First google https://www.neff.com.au/service/support/induction-cooktops/w... .
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by swayvil 3y ago
Also, apparently induction stoves require special cookware So you just throw out all your pots?

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