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Nathan⒦
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Nathan⒦
@nathan_k
qualia-pillled software engineer and hobbyist musician. playful-curiousity/compassion/intention
An ocean of qualia Katılım Şubat 2009
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@Philip_Goff Hi Philip,
Is God pantheistic in your view? Trying to understand.
(Perhaps it would be easier if I read your book, lol)
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@webmasterdave I feel like if we could wake up completely to the situation, we'd suddenly realize that we're literally torturing ourself. Like this meme:
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I think we should therefore aspire towards a world where no sentient being is experiencing unwanted pain or suffering.
I think I've been partly inspired by reading some of @webmasterdave's tweets
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biological life is weird, it's like the universe is splitting itself up into these separate multi-modal "cameras" that replicate and compete for survival.
it's a pity, feels like we're stuck at a local minimum due to limited resources and our own ignorance about the situation
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Andy Weir enthusiasts - Should I watch Project Hail Mary first or read the book?
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@zetalyrae I once overheard some people on the train saying Macdonaldtown is a fake station and there’s nothing there lol
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I always forget Macdonaldtown station exists. Probably because it looks like a prison in City 17.
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@nathan_k I haven’t. Thoughts? (Myst is the first game I’ve picked up in years.)
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Nathan⒦ retweetledi
In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.
Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...
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515k words. 5 chapters and an epilogue left. Then, CLEARLY, editing and rewrites. But, when you don't plan to release something, who cares how many words it is? I'm more concerned about these characters/this story not leaving my head when I finish it. Which I suppose is normal.
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Anybody who believes that machines/AI could ever be conscious needs to read these books
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@cognazor Interesting to see the David Bentley hart book recommended, I tried to read it and found it sort of patronizing and hard to get in to. Disappointed because I find consciousness and advaita vedanta interesting and I am an ex Christian so hoped to find something of value.
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He bought the Mac Mini? Good. Now replace his feed with videos of people using Claude Code on the Vision Pro
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@clairlemon @christopherrufo yes. I think it comes down to the difference between orthodoxy (right belief) and orthopraxy (right action). Religion seems to have too heavy an emphasis on the former in many cases.
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The whole debate depends on what we mean by "religious."
Do we mean:
(a) belief in the supernatural? Or
(b) adherence to a moral culture shaped by religious history?
If we mean (a) then Scandinavia is irreligious but if we mean (b) then it is deeply religious. Scandi civic ethics are substantially Lutheran, even among atheists.
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Incredibly specious argument from Pinker. The answer is, "it depends on the religion." Everything Pinker claims to admire were built on a Christian foundation. And all of the worst atrocities of the past century were committed by explicitly atheistic, anti-religious states.
The Free Press@TheFP
Does a more religious society make a better society? @SAPinker says no: Would you rather live in Afghanistan or Scandinavia? “The more religious the society, the worse the problems are.” @DouthatNYT disagrees: You can balance the best of faith and modernity. “What we should wish as Americans is to be neither Afghanistan nor Scandinavia—but to be the United States of America.”
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I heard someone say "Clee" when they were referring to a "CLI/See Elle Eye" today. I've also heard "Cly" before.
Have I been wrong this whole time? I've always said the letters C, L, I haha.
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