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by w0de0 2mo ago
Just so. I don’t mean optimal locally or globally - the species is practically extinct! - only unique. (A platypus is special too, while also rather the worst at everything it does.)
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by w0de0 2mo ago
Humans are extremely special! They have a unique trait no other extant and few antecedant species have/had… No other carbon terrestrial species can run for such long distances - a healthy young human can jog for 50 km or more on water
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by w0de0 2mo ago
The mediocre may livestream, but I suppose the worst and the best, in seeking escape from the middle voice, now gifted to large language models, now not our own, that is, I say, the best and the worst will become esoterically poetic, will r
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by w0de0 2mo ago
She’s not a lit critic, rather a classicist and the author of the most popular recent translations of Homer.
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by w0de0 2mo ago
It was so in the trailer’s opening shot. One assumes this to be intentional.
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by w0de0 2mo ago
In actual fact I did move to a boat far from American shores. Ha.
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by w0de0 2mo ago
I think your observation is valid, but - perhaps from very understandable frustration - overwrought, and unfairly characterized as a specifically American foible. Success always has many fathers, failure is always an orphan, anywhere. At le
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by w0de0 2mo ago
That tone you detect is deliberately over-the-top: it’s breathless as a satirical technique. The author entirely agrees with your concerns; they’re mocking the corps and the researchers, or rather, letting them mock themselves by pretending
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by w0de0 2mo ago
Fine, it’s all my fault. Neither me nor my state voted that way, I’ve protested like hell, but nonetheless at your insistence I accept personal responsibility for the policy choices of the federal government. What do you propose I do? Or di
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by w0de0 2mo ago
I would have let it be were it not for the “play” part! That’s what roused the pedant.
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by w0de0 2mo ago
- It’s not a play, it’s a poem. - Greeks of which time? Those of mythical setting, rooted in the Bronze Age? Those of the several centuries when it was an oral history? Or those of the many centuries of it being a written work (during which
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by w0de0 2mo ago
> all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet. One also needs to be handy, humble, kind to and protective of the weak, trustworthy and able to keep your word
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by w0de0 2mo ago
I’d pay a premium not to be exposed to advertisements for this service. I’d pay a premium for the works of authors who despise it, if it existed; I reckon this would be a signal of their quality.
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by w0de0 2mo ago
Thinking, thesis and synthesis, syllogism, poesy or prose: in all these things I am far better than an LLM. But even were I not, I would still insist on doing them myself. An abnegation, an abdication of yourself, to do otherwise. A little
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by w0de0 3mo ago
In which specifics does “low social trust” differ from “high xenophobia”? Is fear of the other a morally neutral emotion? Do you suppose your response to an ethnically or culturally different neighbor differs from some your ancestors’? If i
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by w0de0 3mo ago
Ah, friend, America was importing people from Africa. Indeed “import” is rather more apt in this case than the several other you’ve ignored (e.g. the mass immigration from Vietnam at the finish of that war). What a horridly dull country it
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by w0de0 3mo ago
I can do it all, but I have my own boat. We choose how we live.
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by w0de0 3mo ago
As neither side has year-round road access, it’s to be the rare road both to and from nowhere. The only commodity worth infrastructure would be oil. Conclude this is to be in reality either pipedrem or pipeline.
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by w0de0 4mo ago
> we never were really communicating that well to begin with? We were not. A majority of humanity has been merely semiliterate since at least the advent of radio. As this came before secondary (high school) education became ubiquitous, I
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by w0de0 4mo ago
The bicameral hypothesis seems impossible to me. Consciousness must precede language, no? The invention and use of the latter is impossible without some theory of mind, which requires first a theory of self. Therefore language cannot be int
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by w0de0 5mo ago
You’ve forgotten the scenario in which senility remixes all of the above daily.
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by w0de0 5mo ago
were*
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by w0de0 5mo ago
Unlikely. Adaptability of the language to new concepts as well as ease of adoption for second language learners matters. English - indeed every other candidate global language (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic) - excel Chinese in these r
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by w0de0 5mo ago
And I suppose this world-historically rich Afrikaner is prepared to pay the high personal taxes required for such a scheme, no? Words speak loud than actions, no? He will not be troubled by the skin color of recipients (“universal”), yes?
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by w0de0 6mo ago
Also superior.
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by w0de0 6mo ago
Genuinely regrettable. The appointed life peers system is worse than the traditional ‘hereditary sortition’ (if you will). The former creates a class of semi-sinecures of equally questionable quality yet beholden to the political system of
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by w0de0 6mo ago
And they’d be right to, fella. It is unjust to need to pay more to achieve similar safety.
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by w0de0 7mo ago
Sounds like you should take away a necessity to learn more about Zoroastrianism! Not all writing must be generally accessible.
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by w0de0 7mo ago
The blog is not a safe place for the overly literal mind. You must accept the glib overstatement and the poetic lie. There’s a reason he caused a paroxysm among the rationalists.
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by w0de0 7mo ago
Perhaps wise, when reading these comments, to 's/{people,others,friends,those that}/I/g' Interestingly 's/they/AI/g' almost works.

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