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Thank you so much for reading this and for your kind words. It means a lot to be heard.

Regarding the final point, about whether there is a way to "quit the ant game", I think there may sort of be one in the future. The article doesn't account for the possibility of t…

Moral of that story: these things are weak to cable tripping.

Yeah, that's fair. But I'd put it in the category of like sci-fi movies (she's obviously based on Hal from 2001), and Portal 2 has movie-equivalent levels of storyline. I think it'…

Classical can get pretty metal, for sure. :) Wagner and Mahler come to mind. On a totally different note - have you listened to Them Crooked Vultures? John Paul Jones, formerly Led…

Yeah, that could be. It's a young genre and I think that paintings from before perspective became systematically understood are super awkward. That's a cool thought. I'm totally ok…

Some video games that explore the human condition and could be said to be Art with the capital A: The Stanley Parable (deconstruction of what it is to play a game. It starts with a…

The only part of this I really agree with is that the music industry is harming artists more than usual. It is a meme at least as old as jazz or even older (Baroque music was so-na…

So people who are fit enough to pass active duty basic training tend not to have symptoms. Solution: put everyone through basic training?

Does anyone else feel like this study is a bit tautological in that it's measuring attributes that are valued by the AA method? Many other methods don't preach abstinence so of cou…

This is an interesting debate, and one where I fear the young generation's attitudes seem to differ. My 16yo says she'd rather get targeted ads than non, because it's just more rel…

These would be less than convenient to type, but perhaps as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popu…

Mashed it might stick together. The whole grains are way less sticky on the outside than rice.

Yeah, that's a lot of Hofstadter's thesis in Godel, Escher, Bach. In his long, rambling way, he eventually gets into the subtle differences between the different formulations of th…

For me, music is often the lesser of two evils compared to the background noise of the open office or the noise of the conversation going on in my own head. It also gives me a happ…

One could say that about the U.S. highway system too, though. And some do, advocating the privatized highways some states have adopted. But I would argue that things like internet …

No. There is a crucial distinction here. Hate speech that is only mean is one thing and should be protected. Hate speech that incites violence against a particular individual or gr…

There has been a lot of mixing of concepts in this space lately. There is the legal question of government interference with speech, protected by the First Amendment in the US. The…

True. And "cancel culture" has always been the way things are. It's nothing new. It's just we used to "cancel" people for things like being gay or socialist. No one likes to be on …

We do have laws to limit free speech in good and specific ways. You can't slander a person who isn't famous, for example, or incite violence against specific people or groups. And …

It's such an important distinction though. When people do it, it's just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn't owe…

This is an important distinction. Consensus does not mean agreement. Not everyone has to think the idea is the best or even good, they just need to all accept it as viable. It seem…

And you know how the 3 laws turned out in Asimov's world... Seriously though, I don't think Asimov was being naive with his choice of laws and then showing how they were then subve…