Why is it... the only? Do you think Dick was riffing off this precarious history when he wrote Man in the High Castle?

This feels significant. What if, without understanding how AI works, or even clearly understanding how cognition works, treating is at oracle or deity, or simply just a really weird calculator, theres a tendency to allow the LLM to reason for us, or else reinforce biases (and hence pathways?) My programming ability has certainly declined, but I am also thinking with scope, and with patterns more than in the past, solving work related problems more quickly. What to do with this extra energy is a wholenother matter. If I engage in other activities not requiring the computer, would this compensate for whatever the negative effect this loss of complexity entails?

Should this problem be solved (as it very well could be) or, should ecological and environment constraints and limitations drive policy considerations here?

There are designs around the web for using tea candles for warmth (when paired with a thermal mass like a terracotta pot.) I tried this but it was not efficient enough. I have some other ideas along these lines but, priorities. You know?

A disease is only real if its physical?

Cool cool... what would you do with a ton of money?

Buy time! So:

- I would buy me a house (or two (for backup), depending on the amount of money). Rent is usually the highest spend in a month.

- I would set apart some money for food for the rest of my life. I know more or less how much I spend on quality food per month. Multiply by 12, and then multiply for the number of years that assume you're gonna live on earth. Food is usually the second highest spend in a month

- Do the same as above but for bills (e.g., electricity, water, gas, internet, transportation)

- Do the same as above but for everything else (e.g., health insurance, clothing, furniture, travelling, etc.)

- With the rest of the money: invest 80% of it, enjoy the 20% left

And then you have days that last 24h just for you! Sleep as much as 9h/day, do tons of exercise to stay fit, have fun with friends and family, finally dedicate countless hours to that topic of yours (e.g. operating systems? poetry? carpentry?) instead of just dedicating a couple of hours during the weekend.

That's what I would do with tons of money. It's all about time at the end.

Have you compared returns on property vs. stocks?

donate to other open source maintainers

Generalizing here, and this certainly deserves scrutiny, but if I was an old man advising a young man, my advice:

Be like Kant, not a C*nt.

Oh, for sure. Is there not a significant difference between willingly adopting these values and being compelled to adopt them by an external force?

This is a poignant observation. What if there was real tender love and care put into gathering these training materials? (Y'know, truly free and open source, with a deep understanding of what it means to be human.) If you are working on this, we should talk.

I am confused... first off, duh. Second: if I say to my partner, "use me, abuse me, spank me harder" am I not asking her to objectify me? If a woman uses a sexual apparatus to satisfy herself, you know, a big honkin' thing that makes even the most confident/capable/endowed man feel silly, is this not objectifying maleness? Also, from observation, do both men and women not want to feel beautiful or handsome or whatever?

"Fucking and fighting..." as it goes--is not there something primal about this? Now, this does not make sexual violence acceptable in any way, especially where exploitation is involved. But, weapononizing identity and biology in this way seems like a huge fucking fallacy, especially if algorithms are being used by law enforcement. Cobra problem, anyone? Pun intended.

How about: women, men, any gender in between (and uh, asexuals and eunichs?) should be able to defend themselves without the state, judicial, and intellectual apparatus intervening?

Lastly, sex work. Dancers, porn stars, etc... Some people want to do this. I imagine its a thrill. Strip clubs are not something I frequent or promote but, the inversion of roles is most amusing and perhaps even illustrative of what egalitarian sexual roles look like. I am not about to pay for it, and non consensual pornography makes me sick. However, sex is healthy, folks. (What are the chances certain cancers and other maladies are linked to disregulated hormones and bodily fluids? What would you say if it was discovered temperance is good but equipose is better, and normative value judgements are at the root of most major health problems?)

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Please explain to me what an asshole I am. I might even change my opinion. Regardless, thinking and writing is most pleasurable.