gilmore606
8mo ago
and I do so now elsewhere.
Would it be possible to be given a clue as to where that might be? Some of us consider ourselves fans of your writing.
gilmore606
10mo ago
it happens in From Beyond, the spiritual prequel to Re-Animator, and that is also the only example I can really think of.
gilmore606
10mo ago
But qualia is posited to be experiential
This is just question begging; experiences are no more real than qualia, if they can't affect behavior by definition.
gilmore606
11mo ago
As so often happens, you're both right.
gilmore606
11mo ago
I have a friend who actually did this. Met him at a tech job about 15 years ago in the bay area, and he appeared to be a clean-cut nerdy Mormon. Got to chatting with coworkers and found that just a year earlier he had been a normal tech dork (working for Falcon video no less, a well known gay porn company) and had converted recently.
I got to talking to him after working there a while and in a moment of...something, he confessed to me that he didn't really believe the Mormon doctrines, but had converted in hopes of getting a wife and family.
The thing is : it worked. He actually did get married, have kids, and move to Idaho to be a Mormon. From what I understand he is still living this way to this day.
gilmore606
1yr ago
christ, imagine how this would butcher IlForte's posts. now I want to see it.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I don't think that giving them rights would turn out to be particularly controversial IRL
It would if there's a huge amount of money to be made by not giving them rights. Which is the point of mmacevedo.
gilmore606
1yr ago
People don't receive their beliefs as propositional statements, they receive them as unspoken background assumptions in other messages, and reinforcement by approval/disapproval from peers. You've misunderstood how minds are changed. Moldbug doesn't change anyone's mind either, not even the super smarties you believe can understand him.
gilmore606
1mo ago
The squared-circle is the most common example, but then I am sort of thinking about it already and if I turn mad I might worship it.
This is my impression of how the trinity doctrines came about.
gilmore606
1mo ago
Adding onto this, I will be interested in AI art on the day that it becomes like-something to be an AI, and those AIs create art to express what that's like to us. I'm looking forward to that very much, but I don't expect to see it in my lifetime.
gilmore606
1mo ago
me too thanks
gilmore606
1mo ago
people in the profession both benefit from complexity and personally enjoy adding it
This is an accurate description of software development for the past 10 years.
gilmore606
6mo ago
I have always cynically assumed that the real purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons is to blackmail western governments into continuing enthusiastic support, via the 'Samson option'.
gilmore606
8mo ago
gilmore606
9mo ago
I thought he wasn't into getting laid.
In his social circle you have to say that to get laid.
gilmore606
11mo ago
it was a ridiculous, comical injustice and indictment of modern sensibilities that he wasn't executed
I think Ted himself (pbuh) might even agree with this.
gilmore606
11mo ago
How could the ability to do Raven's matrices measure only "academic aptitude" and nothing to do with core mental processing power?
gilmore606
1yr ago
Sure, I'm with you, I think we should build it, and we clearly will regardless. I just don't think there's any way to make sure it's safe.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I thought I got this idea from Mark Fisher or Nick Land, but random googling isn't leading me to any obvious writing of theirs on this specific concept. Come to think of it maybe it was one of IlForte's pithier comments. Regardless you should read both of them.
gilmore606
1yr ago
is always available in real life.
A bit of plandemic should fix that if it becomes a problem; we've already had the test run.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I’m of the opinion that the overwhelming majority of tech startups are overvalued and only existed as a result of absurdly low interest rates that no longer exist.
Speaking as a software contractor who primarily works for startups, and lost a client yesterday due to SVB, I would say this is not just your opinion but the general understanding of how all this works. Nobody in my world is particularly surprised by any of this; it's just how the wheel turns.
gilmore606
1yr ago
This is hilarious; the entire apparent point of your comment chain was to get someone else to speak plainly. But for you it's okay to be arch and clever and whatever.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Why are you doing this weird "oh my god look at THIS RACIST" song-and-dance here? For whom are you performing?
gilmore606
1yr ago
governments are very motivated to prevent tax evasion
bit of a tangent, but in light of MMT is this even true anymore?
Never have I so desperately wanted people on themotte to work themselves into a shoot.
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