syawaworht

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by syawaworht 9mo ago
I think the wrong lesson to draw for this is that it's just a systems problem. Somehow if we do a different song and dance, the outcome will be different. I've been thinking that the end state of capitalism and communism are not t
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by syawaworht 11mo ago
Agree with this.
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by syawaworht 11mo ago
Yea it's quite confusing and subtle, but there is something there. I'm not a teacher so I don't know how to phrase this to address where you are coming from, but I will say in general, our first reaction is to impose mental f
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by syawaworht 11mo ago
My own experiential insight is not definitely not complete, so of course the guidance of a master or of course your own direct practice should be preferred. But to the extent I have observed awareness, the idea of an entire "experience
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by syawaworht 11mo ago
Phenomenal consciousness as being raised here, and probably in most people's minds, is probably taken to be the self or at least deeply intertwined with the concept of a separate self. The article tries to define it left and right, but
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by syawaworht 11mo ago
It isn't surprising that "phenomenal consciousness" is the thing everyone gets hung about, after all we are all immersed in this water. The puzzle seems intractable but only because everyone is accepting the priors and not lo
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by syawaworht 1y ago
There's actually a decent amount of work recently in this space, some of it motivated by the wildfires. Here's another recent paper with similar findings. The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and
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MacWorld Interviews Apple CEO John Sculley (1987)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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by syawaworht 2y ago
Author is a right wing propagandist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania A web of potentially interesting data is presented, but no rigorous reasoning is involved. A lot of words to assert confirmation bias
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by syawaworht 4y ago
Yea, I don't think he's reached a point where he's seen the territory apart from the map. His post is still a lot of confusion running in circles in the space of concepts and mind. When it is seen clearly how the mind is delu
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by syawaworht 15y ago
Humans don't learn because of our short lifespans. If humans from ancient Greece were still alive, we might have learned something. But our short lifespan is also a boon in many other ways.
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by syawaworht 15y ago
I don't mean to belittle RMS's achievements, but as a general point, I don't think that simply adhering to conviction is courageous. It's the easy way out. It's the way that doesn't address the greys in reality, for the sake of simplicity o