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by mrpsbrk 1y ago
This seems to be the version published in an Argentinian magazine: https://borgestodoelanio.blogspot.com/2017/05/jorge-luis-bor...
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The Turing-Enhanced Toaster Is Just a Turing-Machine(lessertruth.wordpress.com)
1 points by mrpsbrk 10y ago|0 comments
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by mrpsbrk 10y ago
Totally agreed. Also feel this feeling of "moral superiority" is at play even when the complainers are not in a position to exert any power -- otherwise worthless people throwing mud just to feel worthy. That probably counts a
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by mrpsbrk 10y ago
"It's not that power corrupts, but that power attracts the corruptible", said mr. Frank Herbert...
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by mrpsbrk 10y ago
A point i didn't see mentioned is that the talk about "having the balls" is all about the fear-of-monads being overblown and unjustified, and in this context making unfunny jokes about overblown and unjustified bravado convey
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
Not exactly answering the question, but: Many times "You're so arrogant!" is just a way to stop an argument. It is a way to derail the topic into some unmeasurable subjective trait. And some times the part doing the accusatio
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
Regarding (3) -- To grasp someone else's approach or point of view is inherently difficult. Thus we are all arrogant by default. Even though every person has their own way of expressing this, i believe in this sense arrogance is pretty
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
Dance. I'm serious. In dancing your bodily similarities and dissimilarities to your partner are in your face all the time, the fitting of them is (in a way) all there is to dancing. You both have to be aware of it and not fight it, you
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
Also Lynn Margulis. http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/16-interview-lynn-margu...
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
Be that as it might, that is not Dawkins' idea (i believe the foremost thinker in that regard is W. D. Hamilton), what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name.
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by mrpsbrk 11y ago
'Guns, Germs and Steel' is pure geographical determinism, dressed up as something else.
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by mrpsbrk 12y ago
I think the whole issue is that Facebook prioritizes the "addictive" nature of the feed. That is, their number 1 metric is clicking, so they have a very very narrow idea of what "engagement" means. But, as far as i see i
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by mrpsbrk 12y ago
one fax machine alone...
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by mrpsbrk 12y ago
actually, a shortcut to the message queue ( https://www.facebook.com/messages/ ) has the same effect to me...
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
anyway, i can't help thinking this forms such a powerful combo with another post very close in time... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247237
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
To me, it all his arguments about "truth" boil down to "I'm into AI and don't bother me with Sociology", which is a terrible shame once he actually tries going into sociology. Since, you know, his own advice of following who has done the re
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
We all have pandoc, and <3, and we can all choose between RST and Markdown, and we all know RST is a better spec (as in, there is one), but we keep on coming back to MD. I suspect the reason is that MD does conform to the end-to-end pri
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FaceBook should have "roles"(lessertruth.wordpress.com)
1 points by mrpsbrk 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
so basically trolls == Dunning-Kruger?
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Worse is better selects for orthogonality(lessertruth.wordpress.com)
1 points by mrpsbrk 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
Having been involved in something like web development around 99-2001, then living under a rock for some years, then coming back around the time mozilla "phoenix" thing started rolling, i remember how odd it sounded that people would hate I
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
He hates that the skeumorphic things are patronizing, but, there you are, in a word, the very nature of Apple: patronizing.
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
Structural complexity (the internals) against functional complexity (the use) reminds me that worse is better because overengineering selects orthogonality into unimportant problem-dimensions, that is tends to enhance the structure while hi
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Philosopher Flusser about 2 kinds of complexity(youtube.com)
3 points by mrpsbrk 14y ago|2 comments
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
I really like the opening statement of the post "all good design is moral design", but i find it completely baffling to see it dispensed like that, like simple statement of fact. I do agree with it, but i also think it does lead to very uni
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Who cares if Facebook fails?(lessertruth.wordpress.com)
1 points by mrpsbrk 14y ago|1 comments
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
Though we don't have to. The real point of the web is that a poor view (standard html view) should suffice. That is what make WWW and Mosaic instead of Xanadu. It is a pain to have to close browser tabs to stop my fan rotating, since most o
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
The whole point of the "Turing Machine" is that code is data is code, so... In effect, "automation" is code, just bad code, brainless code in a way, as the other poster says way too easy. The guy in blitzlang (something) does programs as XM
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by mrpsbrk 14y ago
Alas, not gonna happen indeed. I once believed that BSD with an Apple interface was the Utopia of computing, but no. And it took me a couple of years to understand why. I came up with a different way to say the same thing: Apple is about p
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by mrpsbrk 15y ago
Another way to say the same thing the article says is that «science has been rewarding creativity less and less». In that case, both (a) and (b) start to seem subtly related. Because once your hero ceases being a random wacko who was curiou

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