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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Yeah, but I'm only cynical in relation to what I see as the orthodoxies of the kind of people who post on HN. When I say it like that, it sounds pathetic. And in fact, it is. Yet, here we are.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I love human creativity. I don't like pseudo-science, especially coming from people who believe they are above it (and fall prey to it anyway).
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
It is creative as long as you acknowledge it's unobtainable. But in threads like this, fantasy and reality tend to blur.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I generally see myself as an earnest person, but some kinds of earnestness read as cynical to me.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
No, it doesn't seem very creative to me. I don't think I've ever sounded so cynical in my life, but something about the way sci-fi fandom bleeds into real science really makes me deeply uncomfortable.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I'm always so alienated (sorry) by the excitement around things like this. People start fantasizing about FTL and space arks and there is just no evidence that any of that is possible, desirable, effective, anything really. I know I&#x
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
There is a fourth that the author would never mention: Hire consultants about the problem
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
You don't have to wait 100 years. You can build a bridge to alleviate traffic without any understanding that the bridge will in fact generate more traffic, and then you have to widen it a few years later (which also doesn't help).
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
How do you know that? What do you know about prehistory? Nothing. You might as well be picturing the Flintstones in your head. You're using broadly shared but totally unsubstantiated about past humans just to argue that things are good
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
My grandmother used to give me mix CDs as gifts. One time I asked her where she found all the music and she told me "Oh there's this amazing app called Limewire." She then taught me how to pirate music.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Am I crazy or does this just real like secular eschatology? What evidence do you have of any of this?
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I don't remember Dr. Tobias Funke being into Hindutva, but it's a funny image.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
That's an absurd false dichotomy. I'm assuming the historians are the cucks in your analogy? As the author points out, many of the "chuds" haven't even read translations of Greek or Latin texts, while historians can
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
You should work on the ability to distinguish respect from charitability. One can be charitable to views that one does not respect. And if one ends up being disrespectful it does not mean that they were insufficiently charitable.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I did a pandemic project of reading Dredd from the start for as long as I could. I made it through about 25 case files volumes, which took me from 1977 to the late 90s (I think). Is Judge Dredd cyberpunk? I don't care. It's an inc
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Hey, that's Ian Malcolm's line in Jurassic Park! “Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save our
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Don't let that stop you from reading the Manga.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I read Anna Karenina pretty fast. And the Power Broker. I'm a fast reader in general.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds like you've become addicted to instant gratification and you've rationalized it. Up is down, down is up, and low value social media comments are actually better than reading a book
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I just speed ahead, and I always retained more than I thought I did. If I keep going, eventually I can reach a kind of flow. It doesn't matter if I missed bits here or there. Or, you could try the opposite, and slow down. It sounds lik
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I wonder if Pluto by Naoki Urasawa would be considered Cyberpunk? Even if it isn't, it's a must read.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
How about an Elmore Leonard novel? Very digestible novels from a deceptively skilled craftsman.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I see that pedantry is more intellectually stimulating than either programming or reading!
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
I think the quote doesn't say what you think it says. Wittgenstein loved philosophy, and it's frustrating when people cherry pick his work to try and dunk on the entire field. And if you accept that you are telling on yourself, th
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." If you view the story of Wittgenstein and Rorty as primarily one of leaving academia, I believe you are telling on yourself.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
Sorry for the rudeness. It is my understanding that early Wittgenstein of the Tractatus was mostly critical of logical positivism as opposed to philosophy as a whole, and that late Wittgenstein of the Investigations embraced philosophical i
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
That's a common misunderstanding of Wittgenstein, and it's intellectually lazy.
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by throw4847285 2mo ago
In my experience, it's the opposite. People who become dependent on AI agents are avoiding human contact, and people who become managers are seeking it out (for better or worse).
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by throw4847285 3mo ago
That argument only works for half of my comment. I argued that people conflate the novel with the legacy, but I would also argue that people conflate the legacy with the novel. People are just as likely to see something very old and say &qu
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by throw4847285 3mo ago
How do you know that? From the way you're talking about "taverns" and "elders" it sounds like you've read a lot of fantasy books and not a lot of history. You're projecting an invented past for polemical r

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