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A relationship with an instrument takes time. There are more factors than the mechanical use of an instrument, our hands and bodies feel things on subconscious levels, leading to e…

It is none of those things despite being not easy to measure. There are many phenomena not empirically proven that science still mentions and theorizes about. The quantum theory of…

Furthermore, there are many intangible qualities of the way an instrument resonates and feels while playing that often contributes more to the better playing than the raw sound its…

No, they are organizing legally, of course there will be bad actors, but blocking an agent out of bad faith is certainly less of a crime than a bad faith ICE agent killing someone …

Communicating to protest in a legal way is a civil right

This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. If all info could be interpreted as impediments to federal officers then p…

She says so eloquently what is such an obvious crime against consumers that we tolerate because we must. Modern serfdom is when “trust” turns to “must”.

This is the best way for ancient culture to survive.

True, I think this happened to my partner, she had to face the hard limits on her working style and therefore had to shift careers. Thankfully I changed careers 6 years ago preempt…

Anecdotally I’ve felt this shift over the past few years. I am 33 and have always been a huge proponent of personal growth, change, pushing yourself to be better. In the past few y…

The only testing we need to do is on nuclear adjacent software, some was recently hacked through a sharepoint vulnerability.

Profiting from a design failure indefinitely isn’t malice, it’s negligence that can still be considered criminal.

He’s projecting his own guilt about his actions onto another. As the article implies, he is a top candidate for Antichrist if there is such a thing, and on some level he’s trying t…

We have life-saving allergy treatments that also can target digestive issues that we did not 5 years ago. We have vastly expanded research into chronic illnesses thanks to long cov…

The existing state of society, economics, and governance in the US has led to many people and communities being left behind. Rather than support our people, we call them addicts an…

Humanities are why AI exist at all, talking about AI Safety musings as if that’s how humanities are relevant to AI is silly

Rigor is only valuable because the nuance of our existence, captured in the humanities and beyond the dichotomy of true or false, has been erroded away by an entire society built o…

Coding does not equal logic. Language precedes every discipline and even the concept of rational rigor. The study of language, and the stabilization of its form, is what laid the g…

Coding is not mathematics, mathematics is a deterministic axiomatic system for describing quanta. Coding is the creation of instructions for computational logic that then is persis…

The humanities are why the internet exists. Coding is linguistics, writing is the key aspect of most software creation. Why then do we devalue this critical skill and those who wis…

People who agree with this happening take for granted the critical ways humanities education contextualizes and guides stem research and progress. By studying the humanities you pe…

Sorry but this is what the GOP actually did by weaponizing the uneducated evangelical zealots

How was the model operated? Was it someone prompting it continuously or was it just given the initial prompt?

I meant to say historical personality. I thought I had heard about this type of ego-death when reading some of the early pioneer’s works but can’t find a mention. Basically it was …

Taking psychedelics allowed me to shed years of guilt and my own historic personality to become a more open and grateful person. I think some people have psychologies built on stro…