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If a smart guy joins a seminary then joining a seminary is probably smart.

That was AMAZING!!!

Thank you very much.

some people will crawl a mile for a promise. some people get skinny on a diet of promises

Colors on the screen are like symbols. Like words. they aren't the actual experience. They evoke the experience. Your mind connects the color to a memory and then it's the memory that you experience.

That's screen reality. 1% evocative symbols and 99% in your head.

too many clicks per word. and the distance between click points. that's intentional.

well the point would be to see how susceptible you are to that. They're figuring out where your cost vs reward tipping point is.

it's intentional. therefore testing vocab isn't the point.

I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments

this is a test for willingness to put up with the whole 100. It says something.

3 clicks per is what gives it away. and the little compliments. and that it's 100 questions

I think that AI would make a good replacement for the government. Or at least the executive branch.

I think that AI is a great way to sum our collective will. Better than representation by ambitious businessmen.

Do you think we came to this opinion via an understanding of AI? I don't.

As is my reply.

(Trek) Data is Lore constrained to, what? Convention?

All Data is Lore. I mean lore is a superset of data. I mean data is lore with a special attribute.

I'm not just picking nits here. And this is not cynicism.

so there you go.

It was cool. He Dunsany'd out there.

Hey I read that twice when I was a kid. We had that ragged paperback floating around the house. It's good. And Doon too.

we could go with Bombadill is an "awakened being", in the Buddhist sense. Which is supposedly better than a god. And it's hallmark power is self-control and resistance to temptation.

Basically Neo.

Maybe this is why generative art never really took off.

That said, roguelikes are awesome. So there is definitely a place for simulated effort.

You need a teflon-coated caliper to measure the batter puddles. And one of those point and click thermometers.

Meta has written itself into a solid tyrant role. A million aspiring rebels are happy to play along.

yes

My mother-in-law recently became fed up with Windows and asked me to install Linux for her. I gave her Debian with a Mate desktop.

She loves it. Zero problems. It's been a week and she's using it just fine. No lifestyle upheaval.

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

Most people are profoundly conformist in their opinions and very defensive towards the smallest contradiction. It's a conversation-killer. It's the cement that binds society. It is what it is.

well android chrome doesn't

Memory is environment-associated. Which is to say, these memories that you have are connected to the environment that you find yourself in. Change your environment and your memory, to a degree proportional to the environment change, breaks.

This is why sometimes you enter a room and forget why you came in.

This can explain the phenomenon referred to in the op. A woman enters a room devoid of estrogen and her memory breaks.

Oh don't let us pinch zoom. That would be a disaster.

These are their kitchens and living rooms. You leap in swinging your broadsword.

It sounds like an attention thing.

Attention is magic stuff. Putting it on part of your body can make it better. Withdrawing it can make it worse. I suspect that much disease stems from such neglect.

I used to have a chronically stuffed nose. Then I started doing a kind of meditation where I put my attention upon my nose. My nose opened up and I almost never get a stuffed nose anymore.

It would be nice if they named/prosecuted the people who paid them to perform the attacks.

I heard somewhere there's like eight basic plots or something. and everything else is just an elaboration on that

It is what it is. Unless it threatens you. Then it's bad And then you prefer a narrative explaining why it's bad. And then you you propagate that narrative. And then that narrative infects the hive.

Seriously. I recall a thousand hours of movies. Those memories sit in my head and I pay no royalties