yrimaxi

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by yrimaxi 6y ago
So you’re just going to whine about tone? Not even try to argue for or against what I have put forth?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Chances are that you spend more time than that feeling resentful that the big bad strangers on the internet don’t feel even a pang of shame just because you told them to.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Most patrons of a store are not the store owners’ peers.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> but I can’t understand deciding it’s ipso facto irrelevant because you’re a programmer. The negation of “everyone should know this” is not “no one should know this”. I can understand that someone would protest to a claim about how “ev
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
You went from Eugene Debbs to fairytale-spinning court jester in the span of four paragraphs. That’s impressive.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Chomsky has explained that the counter-culture of the 60’s was viewed as the “crisis of democracy” by the Trilateral Commission. An excess of democracy: special interests like women, the elderly, environmentalists, ethnic minorities, and s
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> EDIT: I think the guy who started Huawei said something to the effect of when you are a millionaire, you only care about yourself, but when you are a billionaire, you are all the sudden responsible for a lot of people. I wish that atti
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Cost to whom? Imagine all the lost revenue if people would have a rational basis to trust each other more. Less transactions due to more informal exchanges must mean lost revenue to someone.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Everything I know is personal. Most of it is not something I want to share, nor is it useful to anyone else. I haven’t made a personal wiki before but I do keep a fair amount of personal notes (without any cross-referencing rigor).
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
It’s an analytic science.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This is a very Reddit-esque response.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> You may speak as you will, I do not deny that the current usage of the word “man” has acquired a secondary meaning of “adult male human” opposed to it's historical meaning of “human" and if you wish to use it as such, then I&
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I said mundane topics... I won’t bother with the rest.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Not terribly pertinent, then. One is more likely to fall into conversations about mundane topics with uneducated people than to stumble upon existential conversations with educated philosophers, even though the latter might produce a large
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Singular man is more likely to be gender-neutral. Good example: “man is evil” clearly means people, since one would say “men are evil” if referring to males.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
We live in economies that rely on consumption. So it isn’t exactly strange that we make the “behavioral choices” that we do during normal times. There’s been plenty of fretting regarding slowing down the economy, and for good reason.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> What percentage of the world's car owning population lives in a place with a restriction like that? Interior USA?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> Additionally, it belittles the consistent effort and energy spent by these individuals to train their minds. If we have to choose between these two dichotomies, “nature” “belittles” it more.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> > I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room. Being a genius is a good thing, and also not having “ego” motivations is looked upon favorably. So t
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Shooting yourself and then later going out to lunch is simply impossible; it is not a paradox. A paradox is when two contradictory things are true at the same time. The grandfather problem is a paradox if time travel is possible. If it isn
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> It is entirely irrelevant what it is. The point is that if the system is immutable it is impossible to represent a combination of state transitions that alters an existing state, Alters? Aha! But you cannot alter that which is immuta
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This explains absolutely nothing. “Will simply do what was already done in his past” is the non-sequitur: if they shoot themselves in the past then that was what was done in the past. Sounds paradoxical? Because it is, and determinism
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This explains absolutely nothing. You time travel back and kill your former self. Paradox. How to resolve? Determinism. That’s just invalid. “Knowing” here just referred to the magical force that will keep time travel suicide from happe
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
And I’ll reiterate: I accept all of these premises! I’ve never denied them! All you and Eli have managed to do at this point is try to nitpick the linguistic deficiencies of my explanations, which are inevitable anyway since I’m not a phy
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Yes of course, except for the last part. Their temporal experience, if they went into a time machine, is: 1. Time machine backwards 2. Shoot themselves 3. Time machine forwards And that’s how they would have experienced it. The whole prem
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Ok. I guess verb tense falls short in this case. :-)
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I don’t think this really gets at the paradox. What if you shot yourself?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Your comment is orthogonal to my comment.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> I have no idea how you're going to accomplish this with centralized economic planning, but there's a much better shot at it with a free market approach. 1989 called, they want their dichotomies back.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I think free will is orthogonal to mutability/immutability of time.

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