crabkin

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by crabkin 4d ago
Precisely.
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by crabkin 6mo ago
As if box office is a proxy for quality. I seriously question whether your comment is made in good faith to begin with, are you intentionally misunderstanding me? Their assertion that "It's up for best picture because to preach, n
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by crabkin 6mo ago
The obvious political stance of One Battle After Another notwithstanding, given how much the film succeeds as an exercise in using the language of cinema to tell a compelling story, it comes across (ironically) as idealogically motivated to
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by crabkin 8mo ago
Well are people not part of the universe. And not all people "care about what we do" all the time but it seems most people care or have cared some of the time. Therefore the universe, seeing as it as expressing itself through its
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by crabkin 1y ago
Don't really think so. I love Pynchon and there's not really a character I'm latching onto when I read that. McCarthy and Pynchon both fetishize a sort of violence. I find McCarthy's writing going there many times for sh
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by crabkin 3y ago
There's some video Shkreli going over how federal sentencing guidelines are. He is going to get close life.
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by crabkin 3y ago
Idk if I'm autistic or not, so apart from that I feel like I could have written this.
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by crabkin 3y ago
to be fair Dennis and Carl could put out some amazing work, like the Carl produced all i wanna do or dennis penned Forever. But I don't think it negates your point just wanted to add to it.
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by crabkin 3y ago
I'd be pretty surprised if good verbal communicators aren't usually good writers. I think politicians persuade people not by the clarity, conciseness, or coherence of their speech, but by the substance of their speech. If communi
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by crabkin 3y ago
GPT-4 can answer test questions, but could it have come up with what Einstein published in 1905 if it had all the information about the world up to say, 1902?
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by crabkin 3y ago
Music is abstract. When we talk about visual art we can almost always be on the same page. If I say I need garden gnomes parading around a Bavarian village, the amount of variation between my internal idea and what a visual artist returns w
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by crabkin 3y ago
been at higher rates for like what a year, year and a half? We had low rates the whole time he was in charge before that.
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by crabkin 3y ago
I don't disagree. It's not a perfect analogy. The Mormon's I describe are a lot like Sedevacantists except that they aren't openly out "against" the official church.
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by crabkin 3y ago
Having been a seminary class president, scout, priesthood holder, just not a missionary or really active member, born and raised in Utah, I will tell you one interesting contradiction about Mormons is the extent to which they disown their p
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by crabkin 3y ago
There is a segment in the 60 minutes piece where they clearly show a church document, which shows something like 1.3 billion dollars being invested from Ensign Peak, the church hedge fund, into City Creek, a mall in downtown SLC, that Niels
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by crabkin 3y ago
IQ is a number that measures something. We do some retrofitting to make it normal. In theory, 1 in 30,000 people will have an IQ of 160 or higher as you say. But I think that's giving too much credit to the measure, and to g. Which is
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by crabkin 3y ago
nothing beats simplicity when it meets possibility
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by crabkin 3y ago
You are naive if you don't think your tax dollars right now are going to a million things in a million different ways that don't benefit you, and that it's not intentional. In the end such decisions aren't made by convin
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by crabkin 3y ago
Addresses the second question. It's impossible to answer your first. And if you're looking for short answers to those sorts of questions, well then you should already know ;)
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by crabkin 3y ago
Such a project will take care of our citizens. Maybe not "first" because technically it takes care of ALL people first, and therefore no one is "second." The US gov would be in a unique position to do it owing of course
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by crabkin 3y ago
I have good relative pitch but my friends with a more "restricted" sense of pitch shall we say seem to be less open minded, have a tougher time appreciating some of the music I love despite its disorder or imperfections. I don&#x2
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by crabkin 3y ago
It's a 4-D projection/Rubik's cube manual about personal development, the logos, and the formation, nurturing, and triumph of a society, despite going up against what seems to be impossible odds. Simply calling it mythology o
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by crabkin 3y ago
I think that people in general don't read "enough", or maybe can't "enough." By that I mean, recommendations based on other people's reading habits aren't going to be as fine tuned as say, recommendat
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by crabkin 3y ago
While I can empathize with these thoughts, I hear them from people who I think have brilliant ideas, like Karl Popper N.N. Taleb, something about this sort of definition of intelligence and the strictness of forms I think it implies rubs m
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by crabkin 3y ago
are electrons made out of... electron? surely electrons are made out of electron-stuff. If they are not composed of any sort of thing, then they don't sound like any of the things in real life which we can say, up until electrons, are
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by crabkin 3y ago
I've done psychedelics upwards of 50 times over the last 5 years and while I think they are dangerous, and that their real purpose and origin may be different than what we are taught, I still think they are valuable drugs. Invaluable e
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by crabkin 3y ago
Relevant video. I agree with your observations I think they are pretty interesting. Chomsky has an interesting bit here about how the epistemic implications of statistical models like these imply a shift in our values apropos to science and
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by crabkin 3y ago
Yes they seem to take the view into account, but this sentiment as if the question is settled and we aren't anthropically-projecting, or whatever the term is, is premature. Just because two processes produce a superficially similar res
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by crabkin 3y ago
Not sure if you're subtly being critical of my use of the word. However I do have something to add to your thought. Richard Feynman has a really interesting quote, I'm paraphrasing, but he says it's hard to learn some things
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by crabkin 3y ago
The thing is that the matrix as it is in the movie is allegorical, and for some reason I feel like you know that. I think there is a difference between knowing something and understanding something, right, and to me the realization that the

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