"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
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"Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
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#2Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#3Did not expect to see William James pop up on HN.
If you're interested in philosophy (especially epistemology), the pragmatists were a fascinating offshoot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
IMHO they were a reasonable response to the irreducible complexity that accreted as a result of applying increasingly specific and complex empiricism to questions far broader than it might be suited to. (E.g. How do we know anything?)
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#4Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?
Try the reader view in chrome or Firefox. For chrome on android I automatically got a prompt to view simplified page
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#51879
These arguments aren't new.
This is good argument for why tech/science/stem need to read history, or 'older' science history. To at least be familiar with the science that has come before, either to know what was discarded, to be familiar with past dead ends, or forgotten knowledge that could still have value.
A lot of the AI spurred arguments in the last year seem like so much re-hashing since they were being discussed in 1879.
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#6Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?
Most browsers have a reader mode. Firefox has one built in, I just click the icon to at the right end of the URL bar and it does it nicely for me.
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#7Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?
Safari, Firefox, and Edge all have a built-in Reader mode that doesn't exactly the thing you want for the device that you are on. Lots of extensions do this as well. There's used to be a handful of websites but it seems they no longer exist (they were also commonly used to bypass paywalls).
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#8Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?
Try the reader view in chrome or Firefox. For chrome on android I automatically got a prompt to view simplified page
Wow, this works great! On Android I recall getting the "simplified page" prompt but never found that to be all that great of a solution but using reader mode with Chrome is pretty neat. You can format it to basically be the same as reading a book from the Play store.
One nit is that if I tab away from the page and tab back the highlighted area is wiped from the reader pane -- assuming I had unhighlighted it in order to start reading.
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#9Did not expect to see William James pop up on HN. If you're interested in philosophy (especially epistemology), the pragmatists were a fascinating offshoot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James IMHO they were a reasonable response to the irreducible complexity that accreted as a result of applying increasingly specific and complex empiricism to questions far broader than it might be suited to. (E.g. How do w…
The Varieties Of Religious Experience was a great read for me
Re: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)
#10Yes, we are and some observable Automatisms are hyper creepy. And if you become aware of them it turns society into a collection of walking grandfather clocks in some aspects. Not a recommendable direction to move, madness is preferable.