SI_Rob

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by SI_Rob 2y ago
I dread that we are going to see a _lot_ of of cults appear, and a disturbing concentration of political power around cult leadership as a social modality. With a large overlap with the despair-distraction-escapism industry as entertainers
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
Do humans? Are these terms well defined or just subjective "I know it when I feel it" echoes of an unresolved debate over residual beliefs in a dualistic mind/body dichotomy? What if it turns out that a confluent sequence of
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To Be or Not to Be? That Is the Obsession: Existential and Philosophical OCD(iocdf.org)
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To Be or Not to Be, That Is the Obsession: Existential and Philosophical OCD(iocdf.org)
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
I think you might be unfamiliar with the term "dualism" since you don't appear to understand that your reasoning is synonymous with current spec, put briefly: "In general, [Dualism] the idea is that, for some particular
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
> hard drives are only cheap if you don't care availability, integrity, and longevity. or your free time - but what is not worth even ones free time can't be worth much to one at all so...
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
perhaps they want to get their material out of the training set feed trough of all the Sora-style models consuming anything and everything not nailed down with an as-yet non-existant source watermarking scheme that can pass through the most
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
my usual go-to here is to observe that cancer is 100% all-natural. I have been tempted to put it on a T-shirt to be worn at gatherings where I might find myself in the company of people who celebrate or promote "natural" as if it
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
permaculture a good place to investigate a basis of the essential conflict at work here, which is that perma-anything and "innovation" are orthogonal forces over the same domain. Would any culture be capable of improving on the re
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
this is a dualistic belief that regards humans operating on human concepts as being somehow a qualitatively distinct phenomenon from the "system that systems" - a system in which they themselves increasingly constitute a locally (
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
An superbly well-put rationalization for banal, business-as-usual cruelty. A desire to demonstrate that "I can go where others are too weak-minded/unwilling/inflexible to go" - to out-smug the smugness one sees wherever
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
> in a vast, global cooperative I don't mean to dismiss the larger truth here about humanity's responsibility to exercise restraint in playing the impossibly strong 5-ace hand it was dealt by natural selection. But the naturali
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
I don't see a problem with this mainly because I would argue that innovation, in the early modern european era onward sense of "technologies that tend to direct the cumulative power of the many into the control of a few" capt
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
the chart, for all its flaws, doesn't seem to conclude anything interesting about innovation per se, but rather suggests that the development of technology is ultimately motivated by the desire by the few to abstract, concentrate and c
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
Beautiful from a conceptual arm's-length distance, and clearly a massive effort invested in this. But I find myself asking who this is meant for? A lot of unavoidable, but still quite subjective compromises had to be made to project th
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by SI_Rob 2y ago
So, a pricing exploit based on arbitrage between the rigorous description (and enforcement) of payment for a service in one direction, and the comparatively un-policed description of the service delivered, in the other? Perhaps the lawyeri
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by SI_Rob 3y ago
Shelly's WiFi devices are all fairly cloud-optional - you can completely disconnect the internet and they will all work with Home Assistant just fine. Still, I'm not as excited about them as I used to be (mainly due to realizing
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by SI_Rob 3y ago
I tend to think highly of most of the comments I see from you man, but you are quite confused about how this stuff works if you believe that the pay-to-play aspect of a cryptocurrency can be divorced from the blockchain used to track it. Th
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by SI_Rob 3y ago
thank you, I always wondered why the word used for that stuff was just its actual name in Japanese. I've never heard it referred to as kani-kamaboko, despite being quite familiar with kamaboko (i guess, just the generic term for that p
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by SI_Rob 4y ago
Perhaps the reason is that gravity is so consistently even-handed a deity. No cycles or torments, no regional variation, just the same exact instantaneous acceleration for all mortals and their measurements. Gravity is in that sense, indir
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by SI_Rob 4y ago
1. Secure the blessings of Gravity above the claims of any lesser god, for it is in her honor that all temples are necessarily dedicated, no matter what name is on the door.
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by SI_Rob 4y ago
F1 does, perhaps, but what about F2, F3, F10^7452?
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
Sigh. If any of the downvoters knew how well connected parent commenter is (as in, has had years of extensive and direct communications with) basically everyone of note in crypto, Buterin included. Many of these discussions are published,
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
I think some of the replies are missing your little s/carbon/CO2 sleight of hand there :)
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
Is he still actively involved with REBOL? Is REBOL - er, RED, still an active project? Dialecting sounded like an early attempt at a generalized DSL model, but I never had time to follow the details.
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
I believe there are still something on the order of 150,000 BTC waiting to be dumped on the market as the Mt. Gox bankruptcy (I guess it's "civil rehabilitation" now) slowly grinds along to resolution. Not all of them will b
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
> and pioneering exchange coins with the securities/utility token mash-up called BNB. To be fair there were other exchanges that tried this 'invest in the house' gambit, but Binance made it stick.
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
I misread the OP as NASA, which was careless but I still think the observation is worth noting. Also worth noting is that there is a museum on the NSA campus (National Cryptologic Museum) that anyone can visit without any clearance, and th
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
The NASA HQ administration building off 4th and E just south of the Mall has no armed guards posted outside, and there's even a NASA public credit union in the building, which does not require passing through the metal detectors or sec
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by SI_Rob 6y ago
guess this old girl needs another walk around her paddock: Your post advocates a (x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One

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