My point being that where you draw the line between what you consider automated vs not is pretty arbitrary.
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My point being that where you draw the line between what you consider automated vs not is pretty arbitrary.
Also helps with the kind of decision paralysis and tendency to wander off course I’ve often experienced when doing the aggregating myself.
This syllabus has been instrumental in keeping me focused over the course of a year+
Is it really on the way? Is there an ETA?
Looks like for VSCode the shortcut on Linux is Alt-], see: https://github.com/github/copilot-docs/blob/main/docs/visual...
But for neovim, it doesn't mention anything about it in the docs: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/doc/copil...
And, nothing happens when pressing Alt-].
When (e.g. in the 1800s) a typical person has at least one sibling die before adulthood, it throws the fundamental uncertainties into sharp relief.
Not saying that's a good thing, but it is different.
Faith that tomorrow is going to be better is just one of many types of faith, and it may not even be the healthiest.
The prophets had faith, but they often saw dark tomorrows.
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'Hysterical' Realism seems like a caricature, 'safely ignored' suggests the book is alarmist or clawing for attention. Based on the review, the book is anything but.
It seems more just a vividly imagined meditation on the massive gravity of our tangling with reality, and one that could expand a persons sense of awe at the universe and our place in it.
By way of example, assume, for the sake of contradiction, that your argument is valid. Then, by similar reasoning, I could argue that any argument I disagree with can be taken to unreasonable extremes, and is therefore invalid, etc. etc. :P
Any measure along the lines of (1) comes to us through the filter of a world who narratives and institutions have been shaped around the abilities and preferences of men, such that it comes off as a little obtuse to use them to justify disparate outcomes, which is most often what is happening when this comes up.
The linked article addresses famine more specifically.
> "The bones of 'domiciled' Homo sapiens compared with those of hunter-gatherers are also distinctive: they are smaller; the bones and teeth often bear the signature of nutritional distress, in particular, an iron-deficiency anemia marked above all in women of reproductive age whose diets consist increasingly of grains"
from Against the Grain
see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/
Preagricultural peoples exerted reproductive control so they were not vulnerable kind of population crunches that affect other species.
Diverse food webs were also more reliable and nutritious than what was available to the early agriculturalists, as you say.
Cool take
...more or less a humanitarian catastrophe
If you take a plant out of the ground, and toss it into the sea, the plant dies. The 'root flaw' is that the plant is a vulnerable living being. The more relevant fact is that the plant is better off in the ground.
You can inquire after however many chickens and eggs you like about why the world is the way it is, but I think most people are more interested in what can be done to improve things.
This mathematical "realm" is a very natural home for the variety of God a mathematician is likely to imagine.
Alternatively, if you like, God is one of the most powerful metaphors we as humans have.
Also, they are tools in a much more narrow sense as well, but that is left as an exercise.