anvandare

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by anvandare 9mo ago
I think we are well past the point where belief in a rules-based world order turns from optimism to delusion. Entrench yourself behind entire libraries of law books if you wish, it only makes for spectacular kindling. To paraphrase Thucydid
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by anvandare 11mo ago
All you have to do is train an LLM on the collected works and letters of John Searle; you could then pass your arguments along to the machine and out would come John Searle's thoughtful response...
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by anvandare 1y ago
The shrine is not the shrine. The shrine is the previous generation teaching the next to build the shrine. So if the shrine were to fall, then the shrine would eventually fall. That is why the shrine must keep falling, so that it can keep b
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by anvandare 1y ago
Forest fires would definitely get a lot more exciting.
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by anvandare 1y ago
A cancerous cell does not care that it is (indirectly) killing the lifeform that it is a part of. It just does what it does without a thought. And if it could think, it would probably be very proud of the quarter (hour) figures that it coul
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by anvandare 1y ago
I don't know. Let's start by cutting up any "social"* company/platform with more than 10 million users and work our way down from there. Who knows, it might even have the side-effect of forcing them to use open prot
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by anvandare 1y ago
The gender of a noun is just a noun class. But because Germanic languages lie more toward the analytic end of the morphological typology continuum (whereas Romance languages lie more toward the synthetical end) the information is latent - o
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by anvandare 1y ago
Pregnancy is, it seems, just another (evolutionary) war. https://aeon.co/essays/why-pregnancy-is-a-biological-war-bet... Red in tooth and claw at every layer, from the smallest cell to the entire biosphere.
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by anvandare 1y ago
"The limits of my keyboard mean the limits of my programming language." If only they had had ⊥ and ⊤ somewhere on their keys to work with Booleans directly while designing the languages. In another branch of history, perchance.[1]
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by anvandare 2y ago
I take it this means it has moved to the obituaries?
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by anvandare 2y ago
Well, if she weighs the same as a duck... It seems to be a variation of §1 - because witchcraft is a serious crime and the god of rivers (Idlurugu) would obviously drown anyone who was a witch.[1] §1: accuse someone of murder -> (can&#x2
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by anvandare 2y ago
I think you're thinking of the Lightspeed Leapfrog trope[1]. (In a more general sense, it's the inverse of the first-mover advantage: the law of the handicap of a head start[32]) Or: the early bird gets the worm, but the second mo
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by anvandare 2y ago
As the laws of physics do not seem to stop at the borders of a skull, there is no sovereignty of the Self. But no one minds a thought thinking itself its own thinker, as there is no one at all. Just a thought.
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by anvandare 3y ago
I agree. Evolutionary speaking, animals that develop different behaviors based on 'clean' versus 'unclean' would have a leg-up against the competition. Ants, to give a quick example, throw their dead out with the rest of
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by anvandare 3y ago
"Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination." - Civilization: Beyond Earth
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by anvandare 3y ago
The summer solstice ("the longest day of the year") is always the same date regardless of your latitude: June 20th/21st (in the northern hemisphere). And assuming Syene is on the same longitude as Alexandria[0], Syene's
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by anvandare 3y ago
Earth is a spaceship, unfortunately somehow a bunch of monkeys went rampant and now they're busy tearing up the life support system. If we can satisfy their (limitless and still growing) hunger for energy and resources by exploiting t
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by anvandare 4y ago
For reference: this book is obviously a (praiseworthy) ambition to have a Greek counterpart to the Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata[1] by Hans Ørberg. Ørberg's way of teaching Latin is, in my view, excellent because it is based on a na
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by anvandare 4y ago
Once dates get too complex it is easier to just have an external script figure out whether today is the day and have it run every day: 0 9 * * * anvandare is-today-the-day.py && celebrate.sh With is-today-the-day.py being:
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by anvandare 4y ago
>SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) I like silly backronyms like that[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos
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by anvandare 4y ago
Mankind is to Nature as a cancer cell is to the rest of the organism. Very much part of it, also very much going to kill it because it can't stop growing and consuming resources. But there is no intent, it's just buggy code. Mank
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by anvandare 4y ago
"Tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre." "All the unhappiness of men arises from a single fact, which is from not knowing how to stay at rest in a room
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by anvandare 5y ago
History is either seen as a circle or as a line. If as a circle, then history repeats itself endlessly. The world is reborn and dies, over and over. It is seen as the lives of generations. If as a line, then history has only one beginning a
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by anvandare 5y ago
There's no real need for AI. If you combine Atlas with VR controllers you could have the robots be in the danger zone while the human controllers sit in a safe and secure place. I'd say we're about a decade or two away from t
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by anvandare 5y ago
Alternatively, just create electronic stamps* for email; cheap enough that it doesn't enter the minds of those that send a few emails per day but expensive enough to ruin the profit margins of spammers. * I'm thinking something s
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by anvandare 5y ago
For another saga (or perhaps fable is a better term) see the reindeer on Saint Matthew Island: https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect21reindeer....
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by anvandare 5y ago
I usually just answer Socratically: "So how can (some) planes fly upside-down?" whenever I encounter the Bernoulli-adherents.
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by anvandare 5y ago
> The first and most moral responsibility of Freeland will be establishing a decent brewery on the new planet. (Civilization: Beyond Earth - Hutama) Sure, our ancestors (who could make their way and thrive in the wild) would probably con
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by anvandare 5y ago
Pretty sure SpaceX's first deliveries to Mars (orbit) will include just that. I think they could probably use Starlink satellites without much modification (most important one I can think of would be more panels to cope with the reduce
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by anvandare 5y ago
Things either have a cause, and then they are causal. Or they have no cause, and then they are random. But in the opinions of some, the laws of physics stop at the neck, beyond which things are neither causal nor non-causal nor random nor n

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