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by quietcomments 4y ago
Um, this article has the same plot as the movie Sphere from the 90s. Sphere featured a underwater spaceship, named Basura investigated by a guy named Norman which included unkownable and exciting information. The ship had a giant golden sph
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Meaning is not an easy thing to communicate. Each philosophy puts meaning in different places, meaning of words, meaning of an image, meaning in work, ect. Corporate jobs don't often have the capacity to provide a meaningful role. I ha
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by quietcomments 4y ago
A related idea is George lucas's dis-satisfaction with his own work. He spent so long working on it he can see where he fell short of what he wanted to do and how it's held together with duct tape and glue. He has a low opinion of
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by quietcomments 4y ago
What are you perceiving if it doesn't really exist out there somewhere? The solar system existed before our senses received the information that it did. Insurance companies scan for pre-existing medical conditions before they discover
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Colour is used as a metaphor for the relationships lawyers want to create and the structuralist view that how you create logic matters as much or more than the content of the logic. Mushed together into one concept. Then the author teases o
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by quietcomments 4y ago
There's an old story I fail to remember well. One dog asks another why do you sleep inside on the rug in the warm, while I live outside in the doghouse on a chain? The inside dog answers, because I entertain and you serve.
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by quietcomments 4y ago
You can't have a perception without an external thing existing. If you're born tabula rasa and everything you know is learnt, then everything your senses know came from an external object which exists independently of your senses.
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Gotta say the obvious, suicide shouldn't be the bottom floor metric for determining if social media is hurting people.
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by quietcomments 4y ago
People are just saying words.
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Addiction meant something in old 1500s Latin. It meant to 'devote or give onself up to a habit or practice'. Offering one's self up to social media can allow you to mechanistically escape pain, but it also does damage at th
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Psychologists don't make for good relationships. They break their own rules and ethics as much as anyone else. Believable relationships are scarce in the workplace.
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by quietcomments 4y ago
Blizzard's reputation for quality was sourced from a stellar QA department, overworked and underpaid. People won't grind on small details for low pay, so simplified games are the way forward.