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by geye1234 7d ago
I should have been clearer, I was referring to the blogpost as "OP", not to 3m4r.
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by geye1234 7d ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Pr... Every. Single. Time.
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by geye1234 7d ago
True, I was speaking loosely, but that doesn't affect the point. If you change my statement to 'the caste system results from some belief systems categorized under the Hindu label' then the original point (which is that you f
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by geye1234 7d ago
Yep likewise, wish you well. (And what do you expect of a Jesuit? :) )
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by geye1234 8d ago
>>Christianity is not 'a syncretic import from the east'. One way we know this is by looking at its differences with eastern ideas. What would first-century Christianity make of the denial of diachronic identity (the self is
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by geye1234 8d ago
Right, but that proves nothing. The fact that human beings who profess religion R engage in behaviour B does not imply that B results from said profession of R. But I think you'd struggle to argue that the caste system doesn't res
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by geye1234 8d ago
Thanks. Very briefly, I haven't commented on Buddhism or the Buddha's teaching at all (except to agree with the other guy's claim that the Buddha engaged with many philosophies), and have been very careful to avoid doing so.
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by geye1234 8d ago
You seem to be responding to something I didn't say. I have no doubt that "there are literally hundreds of eastern religions and philosophies", or that the Buddha is reported as engaging with them. In your previous post, you
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by geye1234 8d ago
People keep highlighting very minor and accidental similarities, like the OP, or some surface-level similarities between the two texts you cite. Yet they seem to ignore essential and basic differences, not only about the Divine Nature but a
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by geye1234 8d ago
Good reply! St Peter's words about "becom[ing] partakers of the Divine Nature" are intended literally.
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by geye1234 8d ago
I think this is true up to a point. But you find chasmic differences as well. Polygamy is an obvious example, or lying to non-brethren (absolutely forbidden by Christianity, permitted I believe by other religions), or the caste system (unth
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by geye1234 8d ago
Yeah I've taught my kids to treat ads the same way, and we make a joke about quickly turning the screen off when ads come on. Of course we have UBO and Unhook installed, plus DNS blocking. I tell them what I put in my post above, that
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by geye1234 8d ago
I get the author's not trying to write a watertight syllogism, but the point he's trying to make (his last sentence) doesn't follow from the obvious fact that beliefs can influence each other. Christianity and worldviews typi
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by geye1234 10d ago
It's astonishing that people accept advertising as normal and acceptable. It's psychological abuse. Obviously this doesn't apply to classified ads or their electronic equivalents. But what we normally mean by advertising, whe
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by geye1234 25d ago
I'm far from being an engineer, but I can code a bit and have an engineering-adjacent role, and 3.8 27B "seems" -- purely subjectively -- miles ahead of 3.6 for the medium-difficulty tasks I give it. In particular, it'
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by geye1234 27d ago
Presumably, being from the 18th Century, copyright law wouldn't apply? Detestable if they're doing it anyway to prevent competitors getting hold of it.
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by geye1234 1mo ago
How do you deal with security issues? Up until now, I've only run agents on a separate machine on its own physical subnet. (Admittedly this is paranoid and I could probably run it on a VM.) I would love to give a local-LLM agent full a
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by geye1234 1mo ago
> The problem with data driven decision making is that data is numeric, and the act of counting is necessarily an act of approximation, by which we erase the difference between objects or events in order to bucket them into a category s
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by geye1234 1mo ago
“If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to i
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by geye1234 1mo ago
And he'll pay for this by "putting up everyone's taxes except yours"!
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by geye1234 1mo ago
Well usury is another problem entirely :-D
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by geye1234 1mo ago
All things being equal , probably yes. But remember: the uber-rich are allowing millions to immigrate to the rich world, to prevent precisely this. (I'm not commenting here on whether immigration is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, simply
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by geye1234 1mo ago
No, corporations want people without children, since they have more disposable income to spend on the pointless tat they want to sell you, and are willing to work longer hours to make rich people even richer.
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by geye1234 1mo ago
Yep, absolutely right. Energy is very easy to produce cleanly (nuclear, and solar is looking better and better). The barriers to doing so are political and financial, not technical. They will be made worse by having an aged-heavy population
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by geye1234 1mo ago
The level of precision a subject can reach is peculiar to that subject, but it doesn't follow that nothing can be accurately predicated of it: "It is characteristic of such knowledge [ethics] that it should be deficient in “exactn
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by geye1234 2mo ago
Exercise helps my ADHD, but it requires quite a bit of sequential cognitive processing to actually get to the point of starting it. Adderall makes this initial part much easier. I expect something parallel is happening in those with depress
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by geye1234 2mo ago
Greetings, fellow Thomist. You are correct that usury is any amount of interest, and attempts to pretend otherwise are sophistical, but I suggest you may want to look again at corporate bonds and other non-recourse loans -- that is, loa
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by geye1234 2mo ago
Look up the English Enclosure acts. They brought about a large-scale robbery of peasants by landowners in the 17th and 18th centuries, and created a proletarian class that needed factory work to survive. Things got a little better in the 19
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by geye1234 2mo ago
I think this is one reason people like asking LLMs things. They have many downsides, but they're never rude or belittling.
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by geye1234 3mo ago
Once you see it, you can't unsee it: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html And if you have more time: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/kupdf.net_bernays-et...

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