theqabalist

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by theqabalist 4y ago
You are probably right. I didn't sleep well and I'm tired and the smarmy "one-weird-trick" vibe of the post I replied to just annoyed me . I will own the "not made effectively" indictment.
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by theqabalist 4y ago
Congrats, you are actually just an inconsequential stooge. Environmental corruption and depletion is not a consumer problem, at least not directly. It is a product of industrial production processes. Eat meat, eat dairy, preserve your healt
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by theqabalist 4y ago
The majority of the world is not circumcised. The majority of the world is not dealing with an STI epidemic; some areas are, and only with some STIs. The US has a very high circumcision rate and a very high STI rate for what the proponent
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by theqabalist 4y ago
I think this actually hits the nail on the head. Chess is very much a game of chance. People have been saying "the players are nondeterministic not the game," but epistemically what is a game with no players? I play chess serious
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by theqabalist 5y ago
Forgive me if anyone has said as much, but something that directly stands out to me about all of the comments heretofore mentioned is that they are treating a state of consciousness in a formalist way, as if the mind exists independent of t
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by theqabalist 8y ago
The argument is not to design systems as stories, but to leverage the psychosocial technology of story to inform both design decisions and discussion such that you do not need to be a mathematician in order to contribute. Your system is no
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by theqabalist 8y ago
The idea is not to hide design details in specific settings. The idea is first and foremost that characters in a story are entities people reason easily about. The story example is not an example of how to design a system, it is an exampl
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Story-Oriented Programming(brandonkeown.com)
23 points by theqabalist 8y ago|6 comments
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Over Engineering Is Definable, and Reducible(brandonkeown.com)
1 points by theqabalist 10y ago|0 comments
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Over Engineering Is Definable, and Reducible(brandonkeown.com)
1 points by theqabalist 10y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Lenses in Pragmatic Business Applications(brandonkeown.com)
1 points by theqabalist 10y ago|0 comments
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Lenses for Fun and Profit(brandonkeown.com)
1 points by theqabalist 10y ago|0 comments
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by theqabalist 10y ago
I wrote the following blog post after a fairly detailed exchange with Dr Alan Kay. http://www.brandonkeown.com/2016/01/the-interrelationship-of...