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wittysense
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About wittysense
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Comment #6196603
Consciousness can be modeled, and the brain can be modeled. The models can be correlated, and this is useful to us to get on the same page about what constitutes reality as a pictu…
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Comment #6195320
If you use s for layout, you will ignore W3C Validators. If you ignore W3C Validators for one language, you might as well ignore "validation" for all languages. The whole point abo…
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Comment #6177272
Please read Wittgenstein. Or Richard M. Hare. Or Gilbert Ryle. Not all language is truth-functional, and religious language is a language game which consists of no conditions for A…
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Comment #6085043
How pitifully insignificant and uninteresting this headline is. Is it [strongly] or [weakly] correlated ? You can say, "On Earth, Where You're Born..." I mean, c'mon. This is compa…
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Comment #6080210
Recruiters are bots, gophers; treat them as such. Many of you are resistent with anxiety to career hacking, why ? You want to disrupt everything else.
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Comment #6075891
You should be as vitamin-conscious as someone who takes supplements, but with Food. The crux of the problem is with epistemologies like Popper's and Putnam's and the muddled thinki…
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Show HN: A high-schoolish "Oh Right." moment comments on Facebook
So many of us are thrillfully justifying our existence by diving into the explanation as to why we use Facebook, or shouldn't. I'm noticing a bit of maturity to the arguments now. …
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Comment #6037560
I got to "ball-busting" then realized the irony. Next.
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Comment #6031219
This. But yr just a neural net.
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Comment #6023705
If I smash my keyboard I perhaps produce a program; if I smash a piece of paper I produce a program.
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Comment #6002442
" You sound as close-minded as some of the people you're railing against." Again. Re-read the first two paragraphs. How do you GET this conclusion? It makes absolutely no sense. I'…
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Comment #6002292
It is beyond me that you read my first paragraph and probably started thinking "close-minded." It's beyond me that you fail to see the sense of betrayal and defeatism in a person w…
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Comment #6002280
I'd love to be trapped in a padded room with you for 10 hours so that I could crush your mind with my mind.
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Comment #6002257
"For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you …
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Comment #6001875
I wish all the best for the U.S., but this country has only presented fear and obstacles to my family, and demands loyalty, recognition. I am a Citizen of the World, and it will be…
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Comment #5995429
??? I wouldn't. But clearly these governments will. We're getting muddled here. Stop asking "me" as if you are asking me, this user: wittysense. Whatever I personally would do is i…
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Comment #5995385
Crimes of reasoning occur before any bullets are fired.
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Comment #5995312
No guns or triggers are involved when they draft these laws or play these very critical decisions at an international legislative and economic level. Guns don't sell guns.
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Comment #5995303
Planned Economies, Post-scarcity anarchism. Alain Badiou, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky. The only reason we're all seemingly fucked is because the U.S. DID a decent enough job to l…
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Comment #5995225
... This response is exactly the problem: "Live and let live." In the face of anarchy, this is not a mature or safe philosophy to hold for oneself or to recommend to others. You ha…
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Comment #5995007
SRSLY. Previous poster said all of that -- all of language, all of that "thinking outloud" -- ultimately to stick you with the oh-you-shouldn't-be-surprised "I don't have any theor…
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Comment #5994949
I hope you get the point here. There are about a couple million too many Socrates-types around, and this planet has way more than enough hemlock (along with various other death-rem…