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by verisimi 3y ago
Thank you, but I don't really understand the point you are making here. This is probably my misunderstanding, but can I push you to explain what you mean a bit more fully?
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by verisimi 3y ago
Yeah - its easy to explain and I'm not asking her for a justification. I'm simply stating that here we are told is a top grade, highly-orderly brain with a great love of art, and artist herself - what a combination! And yet the a
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by verisimi 3y ago
This person loves maths and art, and, we are told, is amazingly good at maths. And yet, we see this pic: https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2024/03/Claire... with this caption: > Voisin sometime
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by verisimi 3y ago
> I've spent no small amount of time thinking about my own mind and thought patterns, but I've never thought I was special. I don't see how that can be. You have no experience of anyone else subjectively. For all you kno
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by verisimi 3y ago
Really interesting post. It is also quite counterintuitive - I personally think a lot of people are injured in sleep (including myself), and some of the postures indicated look like they could be very challenging/dangerous. Maybe the
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by verisimi 3y ago
Do you not think your experience, 'personal processing' is special? That while you can perhaps imagine other people having similar experiences, your own experience is unique and not just the inevitable output of your 'wetw
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by verisimi 3y ago
Its easily conceivable now that one can create a machine that impersonates a human and emotions, and then that machine would be coded to write a sonnet or concerto. But, although it will give the impression (illusion) of feeling, it will st
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by verisimi 3y ago
The thing you can also say about design, is even if there is no designer, a thing is the way it is for rational reasons. A tree wouldn't function as it does if it weren't for its form. I guess, you could I use the synonym "
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by verisimi 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that the plaster cast skeleton in the image will be supported by thin cables or wires from the ceiling. Which would be supportive of my point. In the same picture you posted, you see a bit of an elephant and its trunk.
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by verisimi 3y ago
> You keep saying “design” like this dinosaur would have been architected a certain way by some form of intelligence, rather than evolved over millions of years through dumb luck. Yes, I do. Because we are several million years away fro
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by verisimi 3y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. Have you considered lucid dreaming or astral projection? The idea that you step into your dream and control yourself; that you can direct yourself in your dream state to explore whatever-it-is. You can go to plac
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by verisimi 3y ago
I'm getting at the fact that the head and neck are nearer to horizontal, not vertical. If you have your arm extended, and are then holding a broom out (or any weight really, or even no weight at all) you cannot hold it in that positio
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by verisimi 3y ago
Maybe it's the definition of "normal" that is the real problem? If I use a pebble as my metric, some things we think of as 'small' would have to be counted as 'big'. The idea of abnormal is all wrong imo,
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by verisimi 3y ago
> I don’t enjoy the dreams anymore, I’m pretty bored of them now that I know what they probably do mechanically. Why would you think that you know what the dreams are? Could you tell the rest of us please? Perhaps you are coming at thi
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by verisimi 3y ago
These creatures seem unfeasible from an engineering perspective. From the image, their substantial head (the weight of a man?) is on the end of a six meter horizontal length (6m is my estimate, from the image). Yes, the body is a big weigh
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by verisimi 3y ago
> But a priori, you'd expect someone studying honestly to personally care about honestly But then, why study honesty if you already know what it is? For me, this sort of thing - an honesty expert - is in the same realm as 'ethi
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by verisimi 3y ago
* Unelected, not unrelated!
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by verisimi 3y ago
Think about what you are saying here: > I'm not interested in discussing the balance of industry vs government control of our lives. With you, some level of corporate or government control is inevitable - it is assumed in your answe
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by verisimi 3y ago
I'm saying, if you start inviting greater governmental control into your life, you don't need to be a genius to work out what happens - you will be governed more and you will lose personal freedom.
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by verisimi 3y ago
You've got to love the name: "Discovery", when it disappears purchases. I'm sure it's legal too. So typical of our day and age.
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by verisimi 3y ago
You prefer your decision making authority to be corporate one?
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by verisimi 3y ago
Like NFTs
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by verisimi 3y ago
In the light of the ease with which photos are possible to fake, I tend to frame this story as part of drive to have agencies for licensed/approved photos. Eg "Snopes certifies this is a real photo" tm
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by verisimi 3y ago
> BBC Verify has spoken to Prof Hany Farid, an expert in image analysis, who said the editing could be a "bad job of photoshopping". > He identified a missing portion of the cuff on Princess Charlotte's jumper and a blu
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Princess of Wales Edited Photos(bbc.com)
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by verisimi 3y ago
Look - I did this too, I breached trust. But think about it - you set him up for a fall. You lied, then he spotted it and you told him the truth. This is a loss of trust - the child now knows that his parents lie to him. (Great that you
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by verisimi 3y ago
Yes - but I agree with your dog story - kids can't really understand about a death. Its not a lie - its an attempt to explain at the level you were at when you were 3. Its a different thing to go along with the social convention of tr
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by verisimi 3y ago
You will inevitably trigger a loss of trust - your kids will know that there are things you will lie to them about, as you are indeed lying to them to support a cultural norm. I suggest it is better not to lie - why bring deceit into that r
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by verisimi 3y ago
There is more than one way to do things, and its far from clear that the state mandated way is the right way. Its pretty obvious that this is the most expensive way though - as most of the tax take goes on paying off existing debts, and su
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by verisimi 3y ago
I think the internet is going to recede in value, on account of lack of trust. It already is mainly just a bunch of corporate shop fronts. AI is not going to improve the user experience - it's only going to become more personal and m

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