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by manifestsilence 5y ago
Thank you so much for reading this and for your kind words. It means a lot to be heard.
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by manifestsilence 5y ago
Regarding the final point, about whether there is a way to "quit the ant game", I think there may sort of be one in the future. The article doesn't account for the possibility of there being only one ant colony that has domin
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Happy Trans Visibility Day. Here's My Story(actuallyalison.com)
5 points by manifestsilence 5y ago|3 comments
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
Moral of that story: these things are weak to cable tripping.
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
Yeah, that's fair. But I'd put it in the category of like sci-fi movies (she's obviously based on Hal from 2001), and Portal 2 has movie-equivalent levels of storyline. I think it's an art form in its infancy, and that d
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
Classical can get pretty metal, for sure. :) Wagner and Mahler come to mind. On a totally different note - have you listened to Them Crooked Vultures? John Paul Jones, formerly Led Zeppelin, playing distorted console steel is pretty wild.
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
Yeah, that could be. It's a young genre and I think that paintings from before perspective became systematically understood are super awkward. That's a cool thought. I'm totally okay with blowing some hours to experience the
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
Some video games that explore the human condition and could be said to be Art with the capital A: The Stanley Parable (deconstruction of what it is to play a game. It starts with a third person narration of your character being at work, pus
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
The only part of this I really agree with is that the music industry is harming artists more than usual. It is a meme at least as old as jazz or even older (Baroque music was so-named because it was said to be lopsided, like a misshapen pea
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by manifestsilence 6y ago
So people who are fit enough to pass active duty basic training tend not to have symptoms. Solution: put everyone through basic training?
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Reflection on John Conway and His Game of Life(albertstimson.wordpress.com)
3 points by manifestsilence 6y ago|0 comments
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Does anyone else feel like this study is a bit tautological in that it's measuring attributes that are valued by the AA method? Many other methods don't preach abstinence so of course they're going to get less total abstinenc
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This is an interesting debate, and one where I fear the young generation's attitudes seem to differ. My 16yo says she'd rather get targeted ads than non, because it's just more relevant and she might want to buy those things.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
These would be less than convenient to type, but perhaps as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click, these URLs will become fashionable.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Mashed it might stick together. The whole grains are way less sticky on the outside than rice.
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, that's a lot of Hofstadter's thesis in Godel, Escher, Bach. In his long, rambling way, he eventually gets into the subtle differences between the different formulations of the Church-Turing thesis and argues that all conscio
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
For me, music is often the lesser of two evils compared to the background noise of the open office or the noise of the conversation going on in my own head. It also gives me a happiness fix which helps me not burn out and distract myself in
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
One could say that about the U.S. highway system too, though. And some do, advocating the privatized highways some states have adopted. But I would argue that things like internet and highway do not make sense to be privatized because they
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
No. There is a crucial distinction here. Hate speech that is only mean is one thing and should be protected. Hate speech that incites violence against a particular individual or group is not protected speech. This includes a few things said
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
There has been a lot of mixing of concepts in this space lately. There is the legal question of government interference with speech, protected by the First Amendment in the US. Then there is the moral issue of deplatforming by corporation
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
True. And "cancel culture" has always been the way things are. It's nothing new. It's just we used to "cancel" people for things like being gay or socialist. No one likes to be on the unpopular side of the soci
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
We do have laws to limit free speech in good and specific ways. You can't slander a person who isn't famous, for example, or incite violence against specific people or groups. And most of the cries of free speech being violated ar
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
It's such an important distinction though. When people do it, it's just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn't owe anyone a voice on it. But when the governmen
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This is an important distinction. Consensus does not mean agreement. Not everyone has to think the idea is the best or even good, they just need to all accept it as viable. It seems that "group-think" is more about agreement than
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
And you know how the 3 laws turned out in Asimov's world... Seriously though, I don't think Asimov was being naive with his choice of laws and then showing how they were then subverted. I'm sure he was aware of things like Go
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Not sure about horses specifically, but humans are uniquely adapted to long distance travel among large land animals and used it for hunting by out-performing most other species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistenc
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
I think the appeal of the syntax for those who get used to it is the regularity, like you said. The advantage of the regularity isn't its human readability, but its ability to macro, no? What I'd like to see is better tools for re
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
The python ones, Hy and Pixie, look pretty cool. Two very different takes on what it means to "use python" for a lisp. Pixie uses the RPython toolchain and is totally its own language, with its own VM and JIT. Hy appears to be pyt
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, this could help a lot. Scaling based on the past response rate of the sender and how many messages the sender has sent recently would make the pricing more relative, and thus prevent a basic enumeration of "prices of people"
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by manifestsilence 7y ago
This is interesting, as this appears to be similar to the difference between Daniel Kahneman's System1 and System2 modes of human thought. ML is perhaps beginning to approach our subconscious, associative intelligence. This shows up in

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