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Just so. I don’t mean optimal locally or globally - the species is practically extinct! - only unique. (A platypus is special too, while also rather the worst at everything it does…

Humans are extremely special! They have a unique trait no other extant and few antecedant species have/had… No other carbon terrestrial species can run for such long distances - a …

The mediocre may livestream, but I suppose the worst and the best, in seeking escape from the middle voice, now gifted to large language models, now not our own, that is, I say, th…

She’s not a lit critic, rather a classicist and the author of the most popular recent translations of Homer.

It was so in the trailer’s opening shot. One assumes this to be intentional.

In actual fact I did move to a boat far from American shores. Ha.

I think your observation is valid, but - perhaps from very understandable frustration - overwrought, and unfairly characterized as a specifically American foible. Success always ha…

That tone you detect is deliberately over-the-top: it’s breathless as a satirical technique. The author entirely agrees with your concerns; they’re mocking the corps and the resear…

Fine, it’s all my fault. Neither me nor my state voted that way, I’ve protested like hell, but nonetheless at your insistence I accept personal responsibility for the policy choice…

I would have let it be were it not for the “play” part! That’s what roused the pedant.

- It’s not a play, it’s a poem. - Greeks of which time? Those of mythical setting, rooted in the Bronze Age? Those of the several centuries when it was an oral history? Or those of…

> all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet. One also needs to be handy, humble, kind to and protective of t…

I’d pay a premium not to be exposed to advertisements for this service. I’d pay a premium for the works of authors who despise it, if it existed; I reckon this would be a signal of…

Thinking, thesis and synthesis, syllogism, poesy or prose: in all these things I am far better than an LLM. But even were I not, I would still insist on doing them myself. An abneg…

In which specifics does “low social trust” differ from “high xenophobia”? Is fear of the other a morally neutral emotion? Do you suppose your response to an ethnically or culturall…

Ah, friend, America was importing people from Africa. Indeed “import” is rather more apt in this case than the several other you’ve ignored (e.g. the mass immigration from Vietnam …

I can do it all, but I have my own boat. We choose how we live.

As neither side has year-round road access, it’s to be the rare road both to and from nowhere. The only commodity worth infrastructure would be oil. Conclude this is to be in reali…

> we never were really communicating that well to begin with? We were not. A majority of humanity has been merely semiliterate since at least the advent of radio. As this came befo…

The bicameral hypothesis seems impossible to me. Consciousness must precede language, no? The invention and use of the latter is impossible without some theory of mind, which requi…

You’ve forgotten the scenario in which senility remixes all of the above daily.

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Unlikely. Adaptability of the language to new concepts as well as ease of adoption for second language learners matters. English - indeed every other candidate global language (Spa…

And I suppose this world-historically rich Afrikaner is prepared to pay the high personal taxes required for such a scheme, no? Words speak loud than actions, no? He will not be tr…