Konohamaru

(This is from another commentator on HN). You should know that if childhood trauma were correctly understood the DSM would shrink to the size of a pamphlet. Learn what type of person your child is and nurture him or her.

Every nationalist is honored when a foreigner takes a keen interest in his or her culture, regardless of the reason. It brings so much dignity to a country when a foreigner loves it. They might cringe when they see the "weeb"... but deep down inside they're absolutely brimming with national pride whenever they see a foreigner Naruto-running.

Mindfulness is one of the eight components of Buddha's eightfold path. You're getting nothing out of it because you can't separate one of his points from the rest anymore than you can separate holy communion from Christianity.

Somebody needs to figure out how to merge language models with theorem proving. In fact, that might be the first step to AGI.

Pray to St. Raphael the Archangel, patron saint of true love. (Read the Book of Tobit)

Don't worry that it's not good enough... for anyone else to hear...

This has a name. It's called "Fundamental Attribution Bias."

Why would you agree to do such a job?

"Because it's my job!" <- if someone paid you an obscene sum of money to bonk random people over the head with a baseball bat, would you take it? No? Then what's the justification for torturing mice?

The problem is that the technology for nuclear power is the same as the technology for nuclear weapons. Do you want every country to become a nuclear state?

The emphasis on nuclear is a game the fossil fuel industry is playing. They know it will take a lot of time to build nuclear power plants, which means more time for them to extract $$$ from oil.

> Imagine assigning every single living human being a dedicated 24/7 con artist to follow them around and convince them of something.

This sounds like traditional Christian teaching of the role of demons.

If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans does!

> No wonder Walter's name is "Bright"!

And he made a video game called Empire. I wonder if his character name is Heisenberg....

"Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink." - Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

What software would you use if you wanted to model the world?

"[Solar] climate is what you expect, [solar] weather is what you get." - Mark Twain

Ouch. Thanks for informing me the person who coined that phrase was an asshole.

Here's a rule of thumb: anything with the name "big" before it is bad.

Big oil. Big bad. Big lie. Big brother. Big apple. Etc...

"Dismal science" is half-correct: the dismal part.

Don't forget Dandelion Wine.

> Vector fields are the mathematical way of expressing the continuous aspect of the universe.

Woah

KJV is in the public domain.

> Assigned was a discursively long letter by Pascal to translate. The initial excitement of getting to read some Pascal wore thin as the letter went on and on and on.

You should write a letter to Niklaus Wirth complaining to him for making such a long programming language.

What a worse world that would have been!

Refutation: Any morning you're on this side of the grass is a good morning.

> My take is that only a civilization advanced enough to program their own genome at will would be truly moral. Natural genomes have grown out of a ruthless fight for resources, and we can't truly educate out our natural tendencies.

John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes still speak, even if coached in neo-Darwinian language.

But this is not how Aristotle saw human nature. Humans have to be given habits to live in accordance with reason, but that is their nature. According to him, bad habits ruin humans. And the main source of bad habits is bad laws, so it all depends on the kind of society you are born into.

Middle ground approach: doing a little is better than doing nothing. Instead of focusing on being a perfect manager of time, ask yourself "is there one little thing I can do to use my time more effectively?"

Spending just 100 words writing a novel might be for you. You might even leave behind something.

People who end up with billions and lose it are fools. If those same people made it out of nothing, that makes them thieves too.

"Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of G-d? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, THIEVES, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of G-d." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)

A fool and his money are soon parted.

I don't have an internal dialogue. I think in symbols and visual elements. Sometimes a realization hits but it's never in the form of words or a sentence, but rather like entering a new state of consciousness.

Language is more like a tool than an innate part of me.