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Narrative is defined by ideology and the media machinery able to sustain it. Facts are woven in only when serving the desired reality. If you and I listened to the propaganda on th…

Even better: see Wim Wenders’ The End of Violence.

It also happens to be my favorite book on acting and improvisation, with tons of brilliant exercises. highly recommended.

What about (insert any other favorite but irrelevant example here).

Stopped mistaking my thoughts and opinions with reality. Result: 90% reduction of agony. Meditation method: remembering the sense of “I am-ness” in every waking moment, stop thinki…

1. War is insanity already. Not sure how pointing ways someone is making war more efficient is sanewashing in this context. 2. Assuming every pow gets tortured is an extraordinary …

Clojure

One should never write about an idea before implementing it?

People? It’s an increasingly wrote-only medium where the writing is automated.

A nice lottery simulator which had me stop playing the lottery https://perthirtysix.com/tool/lottery-simulator

The incentive to replace employees with ai systems? VS. the inadequacy of ai systems (nondeterministic output, no reference with reality, unknown signal to noise ratio, low effort …

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of p…

All about Berlin is a work of love, thank you for creating it. LLMs stealing content and regurgitating it for money is an illegal extraction of informational value. The fact that o…

Not familiar with the infinite gamut of techniques, and yes sounds right. It is possible, there are many ways, some people are curious about this state and lean into it, most are n…

The feeling of gentle content / blissful love emerges automatically as the grip of thinking convulsions releases the body. It’s direct, effortless, always available, takes no time.…

Not sure what the OP or the person in the videos means but a direct, fast way I have found to “drop in” is to stop thinking and intensify my awareness of everything. Takes about 5-…

AI models are rapidly getting better… at creating an unstoppable tide of hype about AI models rapidly getting better.

Interesting how we’re using passive language here. LLMs do not replace jobs, managers constantly try to increase profit. Managers and business owners try to replace people’s jobs v…

Also, code expresses understanding and intent, quite precisely. Code generators that do not have understanding or intent are limited in their ability to express them precisely.

It was exactly the depression and confusion in the second part that made me feel her humanity and thus deepened mine. It is an incredible book and I feel grateful for it.

It’s like a constant game of two truths and a lie.

What if it’s not a lot of RAM? What if genetic memory, multigenerational conditioning, life-long patterning and conditioning, experienced in a body, combined with forces and proces…

I have both the latest Lightroom and Davinci Resolve. Recently I edited a few images requiring removing extra people from the frame and I was able to do all editing in Lightroom, i…

Thank you for sharing your our humanity and reminding us of ours. All the best in your job search. I hope that the industry will come to its senses sooner than later.

When I heard Carl Sagan defining “God” as the sum total of all matter, forces, causality chains, and events in the known and unknown universe. (Paraphrasing). And when I read about…