swayvil

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901.
by swayvil 3y ago
But perspectives really do vary. And the popular epistemology is trash. And I think that we can afford to tolerate the independently minded.
902.
by swayvil 3y ago
Paranoia has become the norm. (He says from his securely anonymous account).
903.
by swayvil 3y ago
HN isn't as convention-bound as we thought. I call it a good sign.
904.
by swayvil 3y ago
Maybe it's all determinism and noise, except for humans. Humans get intelligence. Or maybe it's intelligence all the way down. A thousand different shapes and sizes of memory, logic, communication, etc. All the way down to cells a
905.
by swayvil 3y ago
It's a kinda meh logo. They could do better. Heck, I could do better.
906.
by swayvil 3y ago
Step 1 : find something everybody wants. Step 2 : prevent them from getting it Step 3 : create an exclusive access channel Step 4 : profit I can think of a few instances where this model has been implemented in our society.
907.
by swayvil 3y ago
Take away the experiments, mess up the models a bit, throw in a little Harry Potter fan-fiction, and even Physics would look like Astrology.
908.
by swayvil 3y ago
Astrology looks to me like one of those fourth-hand disciplines. (Like much religion. And even science if you get far enough away). It was useful and empirically grounded at first. But by the fourth hand, a story of a story of a story, it&#
909.
by swayvil 3y ago
What's not to like? Wear a hood. Pull a lever. Get your fat check. It sure beats answering a phone.
910.
by swayvil 3y ago
Working in a call center is the worst. Pure torture. But that's common knowledge. It's strange to think that somebody would fight to keep that job. It illustrates the depths of the ubiquitous mindfuck under which we operate. I mea
911.
by swayvil 3y ago
In submenu 66.3.105.44.9.2 you get to select the fasteners used to affix 12 mil vinyl barn siding. This game is deep!
912.
by swayvil 3y ago
Our salvation is in psychedelic drugs. I'm serious. There is no cheaper way to turn swine into gentlemen. Now we just need to trick them into eating the stuff.
913.
by swayvil 3y ago
There is a religion. In it, good people are wealthy. Bad people, less so. It's a popular religion among the well-to-do. As you might imagine.
914.
by swayvil 3y ago
Hey I grow foxglove in my garden. Lovely. Here's another one : CASTOR OIL PLANT. Pretty common. Has these beans. Take some of the beans. Soak em in water for a couple days and you have a fabulous poison : ricin. Excruciating tummy ache
915.
by swayvil 3y ago
Consider the knowledge quality gradient. Ordered high to low. 1) see it yourself. 2) heard it from a friend. 3) bullshit.
916.
by swayvil 3y ago
Doom. It's got a strong and finely-crafted vibe. Or Cave Story. Same reason. But then there's Angband.
917.
by swayvil 3y ago
Ya. They've used NN for recognizing faces, airplanes, trolls, songs... all kinds of stuff. Gleaning useful order from vast dizzying complexity is the name of the game. Or so is my rudimentary understanding.
918.
by swayvil 3y ago
Can we use this technology to find a recognizable pattern in any complex blob of data? Is that how this works? How about, "Given 100000 readings from a person's body/brain, determine whether they are lying". Can we do th
919.
by swayvil 3y ago
Ditto. 99.99% of the time I would never watch such a video. It was a special case. Recently watched a video of a guy painting a driveway with great satisfaction. But yes, I too am astonished. A picture is worth a thousand words. Video a mil
920.
by swayvil 3y ago
Are you familiar with the works of Jim Woodring? https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AB5stBjDzM_SzOQxiwfZz-2Z...
921.
by swayvil 3y ago
Ahhh fuckaduck. He's a superhero.
922.
by swayvil 3y ago
The humorful screed starts, as so many do, with a literal interpretation of something that is clearly intended satirically. Maybe he reaches a sane resolution later in the video. I dunno. Didn't have the patience.
923.
by swayvil 3y ago
The computer in this metaphor is what, a marital aid?
924.
by swayvil 3y ago
Scholars say that scholarly activities make you smarter.
925.
by swayvil 3y ago
In 1518, if you asked around, the dancing made perfect sense. All the smart people were doing it. In the future, crazy tales will be told about the early 2020s.
926.
by swayvil 3y ago
Good drawing. Gets the point across smoothly. Low noise.
927.
by swayvil 3y ago
One thing about the internet is the globalness. Nothing's local anymore. All news, all advertising, is competing with a million others for your attention, instead of just a local dozen. It's like having a hundred people in your li
928.
by swayvil 3y ago
Or maybe there's something weird about people driving long distances all the time. Seriously. The average person drives like 50 miles a day. That's crazy.
929.
by swayvil 3y ago
Has our society always run on clickbait or has the internet just made the fact visible? Clickbait = temptation, if you want to get religious about it. That's what demons always do in the stories. They tempt. They assault the saint with
930.
by swayvil 3y ago
If it's a truly worthy riddle then you will spend all waking hours solving it. You will feed it your "whole soul". This is, of course, troubling in retrospect and warrants mulling.

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