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That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means.

That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means

You would think that at the very least our military would not tolerate having to build its machinery with parts from abroad. Can anyone speak to this?

I don’t really understand the categories you’ve set up or the traditions you’re referring to, but it seems like consequentialist ethics would be good as a historical exercise, but …

That moment while driving when the pavement is wet and the sun is at a low angle and suddenly the ground is as bright as the sun and you can’t see anything. But all the time! It so…

Yikes. The sheer, unacknowledged hubris of this is bewildering. Let’s just remake the arid west?

Stick with QCT, I’ve been coming back to that essay for 20 years. Given your other recs, you might want to go back to a few of the Dialogues: the Apology, the Laches, maybe the Pha…

Now read “Experience” by RWE and your answer will change.

This is good advice.

Thanks, I’m marking this to look into

I thought the point of using observables over promises is that they have cancellation, and presumably an implementation of race would cancel any slower request (i.e., handle the ab…

I’m thinking: minidisc players!

What a great project, thank you. I appreciate that you can link to specific chapters, for example [0], or the one that I haven't been able to stop thinking about for twenty years […

I think “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” may be of more interest, topically, to hacker news readers, because it converges on the use of computing as a means of controlling social unr…

> This concludes your exercise in pretending to not waste time while actually avoiding your deadline. Now: get back to work. I suppose this could serve as the unspoken signature li…

As though marketing never influences what people want.

Nope

Google docs has no dark patterns. All sunshine and roses.

Well said

Eh, that is exactly the omega-point that end-stage capitalism is converging on.

Nihilism and expressions of futility are not the same thing, fyi. In this case, if the original poster were nihilistic, they would not care one way or another about privacy. It wou…

I wish they had been working on an endowment like Wikipedia, that would be a better model in terms of the importance of an independent, open source browser. Maybe Wiki and take the…

The attitude proceeds from the same presupposition, which doesn’t seem—using planetary ecology as a yardstick—to have much keeping it in check.

That's a bit thick. The whole plot ends up being about the search for the true mother. The main contrivances of the story go to great lengths to spell this out: not even a technolo…