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Things seen at a distance blend together, as opposed to just disappearing.

So that's an interesting parallel. Says something about memory.

You ever spend a decade working on something really great? I mean something truly brilliant and clever and next-level. And you bring it all the way to solid results. And it's real and beautiful. And nobody cares.

I have. I think that's the dev parallel here.

if the Buddha had a smart phone, it would be a Mudita Kompakt.

maybe the physical world is the moderator of the dream world (internet). In the absence of the physical world the dream world runs rampant.

with no empirical reference, truth becomes a matter of popularity or the loudest argument.

with no space, everybody lives next door to a thousand assholes.

A billion hungry discorporate souls, roaming a vast non-space, looking to feed their hunger, looking to eat each other. Some call that hell.

it reminds me of this trippy video. it's got a similar raw natural waves thing going

https://vimeo.com/313049496?turnstile=1.bljcR6EBA-gZ8gcx0Id8...

If the past has taught us anything it's that we can contrive a logically-consistent, authoritatively-founded rationale to support literally anything.

Remember covid? We all fell into lockstep with great eagerness. Suddenly everybody agreed on what's good and bad, who's good and bad. And why. So don't go pointing fingers. Attend to the 2x4 in your own eye because it's happening to you right now.

They have this standard icon for leopard. That's an example of it. It's like our Mickey Mouse isn't exactly anatomically correct either.

I don't think he's sitting on the leopard.

given that there's no way to establish or break rapport on the internet, does that mean we're all rendered as ASD people here?

framing accusations as questions is so last millennium.

a lightweight portable foldable seiza bench. yes I know there are such but none are good. mine is good

I think that you are unnecessarily conflating being-watched, being-judged and being-punished.

I didn't "refute the topic", I asked you a question. So please answer it.

how does being watched constrain my psychic sovereignty? I don't see the connection.

Being watched does not cause my freedom to see, do and think to be limited in any way, as far as I can tell.

Privacy is less important to me than it is to you. I! think that your need for privacy is something you acquired, and could unacquire.

Being watched all the time seems nowhere near as bad as being kept in a cell or forced labor.

Knowing and not-knowing look a lot alike, subjectively speaking. Because both deliver a state of few-unresolved-riddles.

When we spend this much effort picking through their bullshit, whether we prove our case or not, they win.

because the not-obvious is harder to see.

it isn't the obvious idiocy that you've got to worry about, it's the not-obvious idiocy

people like to put their television down, but we are still good friends

have you tried grape soda?

when you spend long times focusing your attention upon that whole reading process it tends to stick. Like a drug with long-term effects. Do you want those effects?

that and the middle class

I have used this a lot. A very valuable resource.

2 ideas about direct democracy.

Selling your vote becomes a nonissue when everybody is doing it.

An LLM informed by a reddit-style discussion tree might be a good way to implement the policy-creating part of a direct democracy.

all form is interpretation

it's a pretty good guess that when a smart person does something like this, it's something he considered long and hard and applied his full smartness to, and therefore it is probably the smart move. Right? Let's not split hairs.