aporetics

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by aporetics 1y ago
That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means.
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by aporetics 1y ago
That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means
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by aporetics 2y ago
You would think that at the very least our military would not tolerate having to build its machinery with parts from abroad. Can anyone speak to this?
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Lauded Boeing engineer John Hart-Smith, who raised warnings in 2001, dies at 84(seattletimes.com)
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by aporetics 2y ago
I don’t really understand the categories you’ve set up or the traditions you’re referring to, but it seems like consequentialist ethics would be good as a historical exercise, but not much else. Because we mostly don’t know what will happen
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by aporetics 2y ago
That moment while driving when the pavement is wet and the sun is at a low angle and suddenly the ground is as bright as the sun and you can’t see anything. But all the time! It sounds more complicated than just figuring out how to prevent
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by aporetics 2y ago
Yikes. The sheer, unacknowledged hubris of this is bewildering. Let’s just remake the arid west?
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by aporetics 2y ago
Stick with QCT, I’ve been coming back to that essay for 20 years. Given your other recs, you might want to go back to a few of the Dialogues: the Apology, the Laches, maybe the Phaedrus. And if you’re serious about the divine origin stuff,
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by aporetics 2y ago
Now read “Experience” by RWE and your answer will change.
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by aporetics 2y ago
This is good advice.
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by aporetics 2y ago
Thanks, I’m marking this to look into
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by aporetics 2y ago
I thought the point of using observables over promises is that they have cancellation, and presumably an implementation of race would cancel any slower request (i.e., handle the abort controller automatically)? Is that not the case?
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by aporetics 2y ago
I’m thinking: minidisc players!
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by aporetics 2y ago
What a great project, thank you. I appreciate that you can link to specific chapters, for example [0], or the one that I haven't been able to stop thinking about for twenty years [1],--though the latter would really benefit from the il
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by aporetics 2y ago
I think “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” may be of more interest, topically, to hacker news readers, because it converges on the use of computing as a means of controlling social unrest.
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by aporetics 2y ago
> This concludes your exercise in pretending to not waste time while actually avoiding your deadline. Now: get back to work. I suppose this could serve as the unspoken signature line in most communiques. Thanks MW
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by aporetics 2y ago
As though marketing never influences what people want.
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by aporetics 2y ago
Nope
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by aporetics 2y ago
Google docs has no dark patterns. All sunshine and roses.
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by aporetics 2y ago
Well said
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by aporetics 3y ago
Eh, that is exactly the omega-point that end-stage capitalism is converging on.
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by aporetics 3y ago
Nihilism and expressions of futility are not the same thing, fyi. In this case, if the original poster were nihilistic, they would not care one way or another about privacy. It would be meaningless, like everything else. And the original p
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by aporetics 3y ago
I wish they had been working on an endowment like Wikipedia, that would be a better model in terms of the importance of an independent, open source browser. Maybe Wiki and take them under their wing.
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by aporetics 3y ago
The attitude proceeds from the same presupposition, which doesn’t seem—using planetary ecology as a yardstick—to have much keeping it in check.
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by aporetics 3y ago
That's a bit thick. The whole plot ends up being about the search for the true mother. The main contrivances of the story go to great lengths to spell this out: not even a technology as advanced as the primer can substitute functionall
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by aporetics 3y ago
> the singer recorded a few songs for the white musicologist John Lomax Are we doing this now? Marking the race of people when we report on them? Anyway, you can explore the Lomax archive of original recordings: https://archiv
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by aporetics 3y ago
The DIY is fun, but if you want to think about it on a larger scale: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D81N8CPF From the abstract: > This thesis specifically highlights the value of small, mass-m
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by aporetics 3y ago
Ed Kmett talk a few years ago: https://youtu.be/HGi5AxmQUwU?si=zSktsfqBNup2veBE&t=29m7s (starting at a relevant moment, relating inverse semigroups to LSP)
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by aporetics 3y ago
I don't know about technologists who use it in writing or speaking like Rich, but you can trace writers' use of etymology to provoke thinking at least back to Plato. More recent, prominent examples would be Hannah Arendt's ac
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by aporetics 3y ago
If reading this explainer listicle awakens any curiosity in you, consider taking ancient philosophy course; coming to grips with the foreignness and yet the claim these terms still hold over wester civilization is one way of describing the

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