zeofig

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by zeofig 8y ago
The key is to not think about it too much. Your "logic" has no place here. Anyway, once the revolution hits your parents are gonna have those autonomous microwaves and self-cooling doctorbots they've been craving. The future
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by zeofig 8y ago
The "Bob" example is already a real-world example, though...
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by zeofig 9y ago
That's when you see through the grand illusion and achieve total masterful ascendency. But not before committing a number of felonies.
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by zeofig 9y ago
>it's not clear to me why this is wrong or bad, only that people "don't like it." Ah yes, the poor plebs just don't know what's good for them!
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by zeofig 9y ago
Yes, both! Just make sure you don't enjoy writing it, or you might actually achieve something worthwhile.
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by zeofig 9y ago
Thanks, this really got the old gears turning.
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by zeofig 9y ago
Two quite different drugs don't entirely cancel out? An extraordinary finding indeed. We need to do more research.
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by zeofig 9y ago
I really 'like' the title,
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by zeofig 9y ago
As a physicist, I can tell you that almost none of us work with philosophers at all.
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by zeofig 9y ago
someone didn't drink their koolaid this morning....
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by zeofig 9y ago
Yep, it should integrate nicely with virtual reality and driverless cars! Just around the corner...!
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by zeofig 9y ago
Will they REALLY, though?
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by zeofig 9y ago
The scifi novel "Spin" explores something a bit like this. Pretty cool.
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by zeofig 9y ago
As someone who found Arrival super irritating, I'm afraid I'm "writing off" your comment.
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by zeofig 9y ago
He said "these drugs", obviously referring to LSD, weed and other psychotropic drugs that are relatively harmless physiologically, i.e. the drugs your post is about. Of course, this is only one vector of incoherence in your rambli
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by zeofig 9y ago
Because the science is questionable, in the case of GMOs. There really are highly unknowable dangers inherent in GMOs and generally in non-organic food production. For instance, they MIGHT be inherently dangerous on both a health and econom
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by zeofig 9y ago
Maybe he gets high off the stings as well as enjoying the flavour.
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by zeofig 9y ago
With existing and conceivable technology, I would project them as effectively infinity. The whole thing is only good for PR.
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by zeofig 9y ago
You're being downvoted because he WORKED HARD. Don't you want to WORK HARD?
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by zeofig 9y ago
Despite not having been there, I'm gonna say it probably was.
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by zeofig 9y ago
There are actually just millions or billions of discrete points, one for each programmer. Implying that they can be approximated by some kind of continuous gradient is quite frankly insane and unfounded.
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by zeofig 9y ago
why does it need to grow? it is big already
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by zeofig 10y ago
This article is conflating slavery with abusive human disempowerment. Some slavery, like what is described in the article, is abusive and harmful. But much of it is quite beneficial to both parties. My cousin by marriage was a slave for a w
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by zeofig 10y ago
Not nearly as much as the amount I would bet that Manning will never get pardoned.
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by zeofig 10y ago
'Cause it's true, what they say-ooh-ayayy...
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by zeofig 10y ago
The (purported) states are very similar. They have slightly thermal conductivities, electrical conductances etc. but still have all the usual properties of water (as they must, since we observe 60 degree and higher water all the time, and i
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by zeofig 10y ago
I used to be bothered by lots of stuff. All the dying, the diseased, the suffering, the doomed... Luckily, this is all just a product of our political system, and if you have a problem with that then you're quite simply a goddamn commu
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by zeofig 10y ago
>You have to choose a system. Cool I choose heaps of public funding and patents dead forever!
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by zeofig 10y ago
Yeah, we should've voted for the other guy! What an awful mistake /s
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by zeofig 10y ago
You legitimately can (combined with other, related, avenues of blame). Of course, doing so won't remove your obesity.

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