swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
By abstraction I mean a contrivance of symbols (ie things to which meaning is assigned ). Be those symbols ideas, words, patterns of magnetized dots or whatever. Sight, sound, taste, etc are not that. (I suppose even words are not necessar
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by swayvil 2y ago
To get primitive... Science translates observation into abstraction. (That's a big leap. And yes, one could make one's own observation. But nobody has the time for that.) But is it a good abstraction? (And then we have all these m
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by swayvil 2y ago
I thought it was pretty cool. Flagger is a doofus.
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by swayvil 2y ago
So, Mr It, what's the upside of all this stalking and childmurder? What's your favorite videogame?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Speaking as an ex bicycle repair man, this irks and/or boggles me. I feel trolled. I mean, I doubt the veracity of this headline and I think they're making shit up. Bicycles are beautifully fixable and tweakable. Back at the shop
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by swayvil 2y ago
The technologies of education and advertising have proven to be quite good at changing people.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Funny how improving self-awareness and self-control is always at the bottom of the list of solutions. It's always a new machine, product or pill. (But I think that public access to hallucinogens is a step in the right direction, actual
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by swayvil 2y ago
God forbid we stop consuming everything in sight like a fat kid in a candy shop.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Fasting gets you high. Bundles well with meditation, sleep-deprivation, etc. (which leads to "religious visions" etc)
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by swayvil 2y ago
This is green day? I have no feelings. 90s? Ween of course.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I imagine faces on the fronts of people's heads. I know that this is common. Is this a consensual hallucination?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Just feed it a book?
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by swayvil 2y ago
But it's such a waste of space. I spend only a small part of my day on it. (Roll up futon).
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by swayvil 2y ago
So it gives us, for all the objects in view, a unique id, location, location history, various alerts. What else? Any thing-description? If an object leaves the view and re-enters, does it get the same id?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Simulated too? I assume that if you can map it then you can simulate it. Am I correct?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ala Huxley
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by swayvil 2y ago
I figure that all motion is curved because all motion is on space bent by gravity or whatever. So motion always involves some acceleration vectors. Is that... assful?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Still want one. And this vector right here.... that's the milky way's orbit about the greater magellanic cloud...
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by swayvil 2y ago
An ultra sensitive motion sensor. Intriguing. Could one derive the Earth's rotation? The motion of the solar system? By watching vibrations could it be a microphone?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Speaking as a creative monster, I never practiced. I learned to draw by drawing, program by programming etc. Always because I was into it. Never because I was into a dream of future mastery.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You'll have my unlimited consumption when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Do we trust the science on this one?
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by swayvil 2y ago
But the knowledgeable intellectuals seem to like it.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Teeth. I can't afford teeth.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Used to have a subscription. Me and Dad would try to get it first. Mom bought tons of their little paperback compilations at garage sales. They programmed me into the man I am today. In retrospect, goddamn they were bleak. I guess that&#x27
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by swayvil 2y ago
Interesting choice of study then. To exclude that concerning period.
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by swayvil 2y ago
It very well might be.
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The vaccine?
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by swayvil 2y ago
There ain't no justice so don't expect any. Either join the filthy dogfight or not. I prefer to not.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The climax of this system where the wealthy control everything is that the wealthy grab literally all of the wealth, spending that wealth in their endless competition with each other, leaving only scraps for the rest of us. And then the

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