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I think this has led to parliaments being confused with legislatures; a similarly sublte distinction exists between prime ministers and presidents. I worry this kinds of apparent loses sublte distinction will be politically abused in the co
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if I could be a researcher, this would be one of my main topics. I have personal reasons to be interested in languages with alphabets that have "very special symbols" such as the parenthesis. in general, i'm curious about how
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2y ago
you've unwittingly described the real source of the fabulous status of the british royal family
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> The possibility of America placing sanctions on RISC-V this is why they must get their messaging right? I disagree, I think America is who is wrong and should focus on getting "right", but I hate how in this political times
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2y ago
in any case, I think it already passed the Turing test and then some because in my (in this case, not humble) opinion, there are some UFO contactee and disclosure groups (such as swaruu.org) who I think are actually an advanced military gra
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2y ago
it may prevent its capture in the first place, and it can also prevent consulting the page (a delay tactic)
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lately? I think that most cathedrals are historical mega projects
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But Gandalf absolutely exists in objective reality. it's a very real fantasy figure. there exists posters, figurines, drawings, the word "Gandalf" printed millions of time in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of
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2y ago
> It's semantics and definitions all the way down. all the way out to measurement i.e. measured data i.e. inputs.
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this is my way out of the "what is truth?" questioning "the truth" is conceptually an adjective. to treat it as a noun is to get into philosophically tight spaces.
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2y ago
more cynically, to sell fire-safety insurance
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2y ago
let me go further: the whole of the copyrighted industry including all media conglomerates (obviously) and all scientific, literary, etc, publishing houses. also, there's a global war, so it well may be a fog-of-war technique or like s
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2y ago
over many years, I've noticed how it's all about differences that get more subtle and precise on every field. I think this specially after watching this the introduction of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMaYFUm8k
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2y ago
but more likely to be "heoric" in dire scenarios, which I think is the point parent comment is trying to make
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2y ago
not from your perspective. but from the viewpoint of the platform, it is just more content
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2y ago
> Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effects beyond the platform out of the internet, back into many many sub-nets all isolated and in many cases fighting each other > Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effect
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2y ago
it's because herbicides are easy to "cook" in very large batches
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2y ago
the involvement of quantum computing devices? which is something else I must admit I cannot really fit together with what I imagine I understand about "classical" computing but in information theoretic terms does it matter whether
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regardless of all that, I must now think about the correlation between cryptographic strengths and amount of information necessarily transmitted is there such a correlation? why? how does it work? i don't even....
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2y ago
nevermind that whole tired thing about how forcing people to stay poor is evil
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because a robot costs the cost of the robot plus the cost of the people making the robot whereas people only cost what people cost. the real reason we do have technology is because keeping people poor is terribly evil, and doing that only t
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2y ago
so any post-quantum crypto requires packets bigger than TCP can handle in a single message? I just super cynically see google pushing for quic and their other post-tcp visions for an internet even more theirs than it already is
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the real economic issue is which is cheaper, people or robots? keep in mind that robots are made by people, which strongly suggests using people directly is cheaper the real social issue is you must meddle with the self-development of said
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2y ago
but farming already is managing some other actor/agent-like being into doing your bidding and then eating it
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> There is no scenario in a free society where this should be allowed or tolerated. yes there is, I think you're lacking imagination. such a vision does require re-imagining a lot of what society is, and even of how we undertand our
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2y ago
I independently came up with this idea. but not this way to name it. also, why would the AIs give only praise? they could also be mean and evil; would that be "hellbanning"?
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no, because other bigger companies will pay manufacturers more money than "people" ever possibly could this is the same logic that told me that my smartphone will never really be mine as in "my phone will work for me first of
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funny how this is truly a common point between Texas and California...
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you're trying to use mechanical thinking on a level where symbols are often more powerful than mechanisms
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reminicscent of Euler's use of Pi? I recall that Euler would write Pi but sometimes he meant 2*pi, or possibly pi/2 depending on context
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