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I dread that we are going to see a _lot_ of of cults appear, and a disturbing concentration of political power around cult leadership as a social modality. With a large overlap wit…

Do humans? Are these terms well defined or just subjective "I know it when I feel it" echoes of an unresolved debate over residual beliefs in a dualistic mind/body dichotomy? What …

I think you might be unfamiliar with the term "dualism" since you don't appear to understand that your reasoning is synonymous with current spec, put briefly: "In general, [Dualism…

> hard drives are only cheap if you don't care availability, integrity, and longevity. or your free time - but what is not worth even ones free time can't be worth much to one at a…

perhaps they want to get their material out of the training set feed trough of all the Sora-style models consuming anything and everything not nailed down with an as-yet non-exista…

my usual go-to here is to observe that cancer is 100% all-natural. I have been tempted to put it on a T-shirt to be worn at gatherings where I might find myself in the company of p…

permaculture a good place to investigate a basis of the essential conflict at work here, which is that perma-anything and "innovation" are orthogonal forces over the same domain. W…

this is a dualistic belief that regards humans operating on human concepts as being somehow a qualitatively distinct phenomenon from the "system that systems" - a system in which t…

An superbly well-put rationalization for banal, business-as-usual cruelty. A desire to demonstrate that "I can go where others are too weak-minded/unwilling/inflexible to go" - to …

> in a vast, global cooperative I don't mean to dismiss the larger truth here about humanity's responsibility to exercise restraint in playing the impossibly strong 5-ace hand it w…

I don't see a problem with this mainly because I would argue that innovation, in the early modern european era onward sense of "technologies that tend to direct the cumulative powe…

the chart, for all its flaws, doesn't seem to conclude anything interesting about innovation per se, but rather suggests that the development of technology is ultimately motivated …

Beautiful from a conceptual arm's-length distance, and clearly a massive effort invested in this. But I find myself asking who this is meant for? A lot of unavoidable, but still qu…

So, a pricing exploit based on arbitrage between the rigorous description (and enforcement) of payment for a service in one direction, and the comparatively un-policed description …

Shelly's WiFi devices are all fairly cloud-optional - you can completely disconnect the internet and they will all work with Home Assistant just fine. Still, I'm not as excited abo…

I tend to think highly of most of the comments I see from you man, but you are quite confused about how this stuff works if you believe that the pay-to-play aspect of a cryptocurre…

thank you, I always wondered why the word used for that stuff was just its actual name in Japanese. I've never heard it referred to as kani-kamaboko, despite being quite familiar w…

Perhaps the reason is that gravity is so consistently even-handed a deity. No cycles or torments, no regional variation, just the same exact instantaneous acceleration for all mort…

1. Secure the blessings of Gravity above the claims of any lesser god, for it is in her honor that all temples are necessarily dedicated, no matter what name is on the door.

F1 does, perhaps, but what about F2, F3, F10^7452?

Sigh. If any of the downvoters knew how well connected parent commenter is (as in, has had years of extensive and direct communications with) basically everyone of note in crypto, …

I think some of the replies are missing your little s/carbon/CO2 sleight of hand there :)

Is he still actively involved with REBOL? Is REBOL - er, RED, still an active project? Dialecting sounded like an early attempt at a generalized DSL model, but I never had time to …