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Yeah let me know when the designer drugs that build the cognitive awareness of AR, without all the dumb gadgets, are available. I’m sure we could simulate experience through detail…

Fear. The Greek philosophers wrote of their fear some day the people might climb Olympus and find there are no Gods. Economic uncertainty versus certainty of a paycheck. No one ask…

Agreed; I see no use in this comment. First world culture is a literal train wreck of needless industrial behavior imperiling lives we won’t be around to help. Let us wax poetic ab…

Kushner’s covid team but he worked for Trump. Our biology won’t let us do anything but game ways to beat each other https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-...

Neuroscience models this at least in part as a limbic-cortex feedback loop. The words may have faded but years of recitation, embedded childhood memory, muscle memory; it’ll take t…

Does it matter since some other law enforcement agency would have jurisdiction and could establish an arrangement to just have the feds do that anyway? I don’t know that Bumpkin Fy…

https://libquotes.com/donald-knuth/quote/lbq7w0c

He’s effectively describing Trump’s leaked plan to let covid ravage blue urban areas before the election, but here framing it as a liberal plot as a narrative device Maybe he’s a R…

It’s just business

What if the value store is the network itself. At this point currency is an abstraction relying on computers. I handle cash personally once a month. Amazon cashier-less stores are …

Yeah. The author calls it out clearly; their COL being insane is on them. This feels like publicly processing having too much going on at one point. It’s hardly Analogues fault cod…

Are you suggesting founders are A players? They’re the B players who suck up to wealth holders. Are there A players? Everyone gets a handout at some point. The ultra rich get one i…

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Life is a human communication game first, as the “best system” we’ve socially engineered is externalized support towards common goals. It’s not science or engineering; it’s sympati…

This is manufacturing consent right here. It’s easily Googled; ~30 million people move each year. The CEO of Upwork is engaging in SEO. An academic in Canada is calling normal beha…

You’re flogging the abstraction known as English. None of these philosophers old works need to be given any weight and working with you to decipher your personal beliefs is not my …