swayvil

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by swayvil 3y ago
The hive is merciless and mindless. Like an avalanche falling on a village. One wrong signal and BAM! Outcast.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Or even just fear. A rationalization of anxiety. A chronic ubiquitous anxiety "rationalized" as a fear of everybody for everybody. Try posting the question on social media sometime. The answers are interesting.
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by swayvil 3y ago
If all of the IQs in a county went down we might investigate that. There's one. If we were looking for smart people for a role in whatever. There's another. If we were rating schools. There's a third. Gee, my imagination is f
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by swayvil 3y ago
If we neutered everybody who scored under 130 IQ, what do you think society would look like in 3 generations?
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's interesting how closely tied "goodness" and "intelligence" are. To make a mistake is to be a bad person. To be stupid is to be bad. I can call you weak. I can even call you ugly, cowardly or a flibbertigibbet.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This is a common predicament. A piece of information that, if it was made public, would be immensely useful in countless ways for the management of our society, But it might also be exploited by bad people. So it is made private. And the ic
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by swayvil 3y ago
I think IQ reflects your general cognitive ability AND a few other things like wealthy parents etc. Just like your videogame score reflects your diet and a few other things. Just like lots of things.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Is IQ a piece of private information? Does everybody in the country get an IQ test in school? Can we just look that up in the public records? It sure would be useful if it was public and universal. For tracking the effects of lead poisoning
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by swayvil 3y ago
We call it "right to privacy". But what if we call it "right to hide" or "right to lie" or "right to censor"? That certainly puts a different light on it. Universal 24-7 communication about absolutely
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by swayvil 3y ago
A software for people. For dictating human behavior. Is that what we're looking at here?
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by swayvil 3y ago
And the links! OMG, you could trace precedents and justifications and citations all the way back to the ur-utterances of Hammurabi. Reading that stuff could be quite educational.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Consider a set of symbols where all of the symbols in the set can be described in terms of other symbols in the set. There's a name for that in the world of shape-grammar type things but I forget what it is. I think that any such &quot
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by swayvil 3y ago
I know, the secularists do it too. It's a human thing. But I never met anybody who said you can't do your own chemistry experiments at home. I suppose the point is moot though, if you have the opportunity to see for yourself, but
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by swayvil 3y ago
Consider An esoteric subject. Hard experiments. Lots written though. So you get a group of "enthusiasts" who like to read. Write about what they read. And argue over the meaning of the cryptic writings. But never actually examine
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by swayvil 3y ago
Makes a sweet didgeridoo. Maybe put some silicone caulk on the mouthhole.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's like calling file-sharing "piracy". A guy with a PhD in marketing made a pretty penny off that one. Bullshit is so common now. We need to take a stand against it.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I see little difference between LibGen and a public library. And as we all know, and have known for millennia, the public library benefits us hugely.
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by swayvil 3y ago
As far as modeling relatively easy to model phenomena is concerned. I could imagine automating model-creation and the drawing of logical connections between models. In fact I'd be surprised if a bunch of scientists weren't already
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by swayvil 3y ago
Can you suss out the roots of your own intentions and motivations? It's a welling-up from mysterious depths and only the closer tip is "rational", if at all. And no, the machine does not access these depths (which is kind of
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by swayvil 3y ago
I like using the "split tweak" method to do my curves. Converts polygons to curves. Works VERY well. Very intuitive, straightforward and ez. It's a variety of bezier. Alg : given polygon P. For each vertex V in P.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I've heard these guidelines pushed in Buddhist forums too. Assumed it was a Buddhist thing. Probably invented several times by several people. Seems pretty simple and straightforward. But ya, all the fine writing LeGuin did seems subst
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by swayvil 3y ago
Bullshit is like fiction. You know it isn't real, but you enter it anyway. And go along with it. And pretend its real. Maybe the love of bullshit is related to the love of fiction. Fiction is almost universally popular.
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by swayvil 3y ago
An angry face at minimum. Bared teeth. Glaring eyes. You know, the obvious. I mean that is dead obvious, right? Or, if there is some deeper symbology that I'm not aware of, that. It would be nice to be surprised.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I hate it when people ignore the truth. We need a website called "truth.com" just to make it really clear what the truth is.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Ignoring is easy if you have something important to focus your attention on. The ignoring just happens automatically. Like, given 1000 things, if you focus on 1 you automatically ignore 999. But if you don't have something to focus you
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by swayvil 3y ago
It could replace written language. Needs more training though. "hate" got me a smiling bearded man. And it's got a NSFW filter. Seriously?
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It's a bit of both. And there is taste to consider too. Good books get good cover art. Or do they?
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's a good heuristic for pretty much everything. "Thoughts about a thing" is a kind of cover too. Portable, personalized, communicable. Wildly popular. Does it get at the inner reality? Maybe, maybe not. Is it useful? Yes. S
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by swayvil 3y ago
Fact is, there's no way to keep a person from being offended if they want to be. No logic, no evidence. And this is an attitude that is freakishly respected these days. Whole groups of people validating each other's offendedness.
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by swayvil 3y ago
>Every human is good at something. I dunno man, some would accuse you of invalidating their suffering by offering such a statement.

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