One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled towards them. It's easy to make the…
To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making him an outcast; he is literally…
Interesting, especially because GPT-4o still can't tell you how many R's there are in "strawberry".
Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf
I was just re-watching "Westworld" recently, and there's a moment when Aaron Paul's character Caleb is having a telephone conversation with a sympathetic HR employee who tells him that he didn't get the job. "Listen,…
Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based…
We really need a better vocabulary for talking about this sort of thing than the 20th century terms of fascism, communism, and liberalism. I don't have the words yet, but we need to start inventing them. We are in a new…
> For God's sake, is this where we're headed? Just ban anything that sounds offensive? Headed?
I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these luminous dots change position over time.…
> We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems. I imagine this is all in good fun, but this disclaimer doesn't rule out data being…
This should be horrifying to any sane human, but we live in a time of great insanity, and much of what ought to be criticized passes by unremarked in plain sight. > Ubuntu asserts that society, not a transcendent being,…
I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, or... the discovery that we exist in an…
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding a handgun is to mock the murder of his…
Makes me wonder what a similar mod would do for video shot on a Fisher-Price PXL-2000: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pxl-2000
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I won't spoil it for you. It's still a…
There is something ugly about this piece, about the idea that you can see into someone's soul and just know that they'd be a Nazi if they could. To be honest, the tone of it reminds me of the stereotypical pre-Anschluss…
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement. I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is based…
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm
The interesting question is teasing out why the correlation occurs at all.
I'm a little surprised I haven't seen more discussion about Gridcoin. I'd much rather use a digital currency if I knew it was contributing to curing cancer, mapping the shapes and orbits of asteroids, discovering new…
For anyone curious (as I was), here is the cover of the New Yorker with the seahorse White painted in 1932: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-April...
They're not being sued for providing a platform for free speech; they're being sued for providing material support to terrorists. Maybe it's impossible to do one without doing both, maybe it isn't. I don't know. Maybe…
One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled towards them. It's easy to make the…
To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making him an outcast; he is literally…
Interesting, especially because GPT-4o still can't tell you how many R's there are in "strawberry".
Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf
I was just re-watching "Westworld" recently, and there's a moment when Aaron Paul's character Caleb is having a telephone conversation with a sympathetic HR employee who tells him that he didn't get the job. "Listen,…
Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based…
We really need a better vocabulary for talking about this sort of thing than the 20th century terms of fascism, communism, and liberalism. I don't have the words yet, but we need to start inventing them. We are in a new…
> For God's sake, is this where we're headed? Just ban anything that sounds offensive? Headed?
I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these luminous dots change position over time.…
> We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems. I imagine this is all in good fun, but this disclaimer doesn't rule out data being…
This should be horrifying to any sane human, but we live in a time of great insanity, and much of what ought to be criticized passes by unremarked in plain sight. > Ubuntu asserts that society, not a transcendent being,…
I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, or... the discovery that we exist in an…
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding a handgun is to mock the murder of his…
Makes me wonder what a similar mod would do for video shot on a Fisher-Price PXL-2000: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pxl-2000
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I won't spoil it for you. It's still a…
There is something ugly about this piece, about the idea that you can see into someone's soul and just know that they'd be a Nazi if they could. To be honest, the tone of it reminds me of the stereotypical pre-Anschluss…
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement. I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is based…
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm
The interesting question is teasing out why the correlation occurs at all.
I'm a little surprised I haven't seen more discussion about Gridcoin. I'd much rather use a digital currency if I knew it was contributing to curing cancer, mapping the shapes and orbits of asteroids, discovering new…
For anyone curious (as I was), here is the cover of the New Yorker with the seahorse White painted in 1932: http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-April...
They're not being sued for providing a platform for free speech; they're being sued for providing material support to terrorists. Maybe it's impossible to do one without doing both, maybe it isn't. I don't know. Maybe…