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It still leaves me lingering in a space-time-continuum where I search for the safety of rational completeness, while inadvertently living on a Möbious strip.

I have just been subjected to a Paradox Exception caused by reading that the memory safe Rust language has and can cause undefined behaviour. My spatial location code in the Univer…

How did you reach the conclusion that the author specifically meant this part of Gregory of Nyssa's religious thinking? It could just as likely be that the author has come to reali…

If one were either the director or a senior leader of a more-or-less covert biolab doing research that is definitely supposed not to be discovered, would you have done your job if …

This seems to be one of the most dangerous propositions that I have ever heard of. Given human history, human psychology, human error, politics etc. What am I missing here? That bi…

Yes. You did do that. But the monkey wasn't too happy. And you have been banned from the zoo. So was it really the correct approach? ;-)

Thank you. That comment just made my day :-) (now to wiping the tears of laughter from my face...)

I have heard of the worlds tiniest violin - but the 'universes' tiniest? How can we possibly be assured that your violin really is the tiniest? There may be some civilization, mayb…

Or maybe not that subjective when looked at closer. It may just as well be a saying that the entitled classes use to defend their selfish and less than good behaviour. Beacause the…

I am left with questions... Are a content analysis of films supposed or expected to be Truth - with a capital T? Can they be? We are in the realm of fictional narrative as to what …

The knight shape does seem off. But it avoids the piece being a sun symbol / fascist tribute piece :-)

Who do you mean by "... those countries ..."? If we are talking state level, will a paywall really make any difference? Could it be that enemy spies already have their finger on th…

Animals do not become thinking beings, by human standards, just because we wish it to be so. I have had cats for most of my life. They are wonderful conscious and sentient beings. …

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps what this really shows is that a reincarnation system, where you can be reincarnated as an animal or thing that has no mental concept of good …

All the religious systems that incoporates reincarnation, that I am aware of, does include the concept of evil in some way. It seems your post contradicts itself? First quote "... …

Nobody doesn't like molten boron! ;-)

I take your point. The framing of ones thoughts is actually very important. It can be tricky though to get to framing that works, since in my experience it requires that the frames…

This is not meant to belittle your positive and well meaning post. But for people with real depression, giving the advice to just cheer up and look a bit more positively on things …

You may have reached a core existential struggle. This is in my experience fundamental to existence: does existence itself make up for the pain and adversity of the world? The spir…

I hope you are right. I have never been in or seen a workplace where management is not playing the 'get the order at (nearly) all costs - let others handle the problems' game. Agai…

Nice. How do you break out of the Matrix, when your knowledge of the Matrix and the desire to break out is part of the Matrix and your programming? Hmm.

This may point to a key problem in the hypotheses, theories and conclusions. When you are in Africa, a "think horses" paradigm, may lead you very astray in your thinking.

I also don't know why. But I like the wording. This can be a new meme for programming language afficionado-skeptics: feature [...] is overloaded past its breaking point. Sent to th…

These are thought experiments. So other sensible viewpoints are only a contribution. I am myself also trying to work out where AI leaves us. Not just in this case, but because we w…

Perhaps we are in new legal territory, where existing copyright laws and legal theory doesn't cover the issues completely? I wonder how things will go if (or when) similar AI techn…