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Wife is doing it, I’m just catching glimpses. Not really into that era myself.
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Wife is randomly on a 1930s-1950s movie binge. Clark Gable, Cary Grant etc. Something feels very dead about that world. Like truly dead and gone and buried and dessicated in a way it didn’t 30y ago. The movies feel like museum pieces. I think because they no longer represent living memory. All adults in those movies are dead. Born like 1900-10. And that world clearly seems pointed towards a future that strikes me as quite unappealing but clearly others are nostalgic for 🤔. You get this same sense of orientation-towards-museum-futures from 1960s movies too. The world we’re in feels like one that that was first pointed to by 1970s movies. Not surprising, given that computing, the internet, and space flight had emerged by then.
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Ballard (in Bosch-verse) with Maggie Q is very good
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He’s scared of the trisolarians 🤣
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He is @yancey
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“For nearly four centuries, from 1440 to 1826, 330 hectares of land existed outside the State. No written laws. No kings, no guards, no taxes. Only tobacco, faith, and free exchange. This was the Republic of Cospaia — an anarchic glitch in Italy’s history, a forgotten fork of a proto-anarchic system from which we can learn a lot.” https://open.substack.com/pub/thecyberhermetica/p/caspariae-perpetua-et-firma-libertas?r=1cjha&utm_medium=ios
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try again... I can see people will either love it or hate it I'm not evangelizing, just noting my personal enthusiasm for this treatment
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Lol foundation stole the motorcycle racer thingies from Star Wars universe
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Foundation S3 woohoo! S3E1 leaps right off the blocks
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Starting in 8 minutes, Session 3 of SIGFPT -- Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory. This session will be on notation systems for protocols. Voice chat on the SoP Discord: https://discord.com/events/1082444651946049567/1392887922960765060/1393275646771200000
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Manipulator arms are the most widely deployed robot type in industry Humanoids are the most widely deployed type in science fiction
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🤔
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Less than a week left to send in an entry for the Ghosts in Machines contest from Protocolized Top 3 entries will share 6k in prizes. Deadline Sunday July 13. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/ghosts-in-machines The idea of this contest is to imagine many futures full of distributed AI, connected through protocols of all sorts, including current real protocols in development such as MCP and A2A, blockchain protocols, existing mature protocols, and of course, entirely speculative new protocols. There are some non-trivial guidelines in this page.
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Really tempted to get this massive technic set, 33% off on prime day. I think it’s the most complex model currently in the catalog. $700 marked down to $467. I’ve eyed it greedily before. https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Liebherr-Rewarding-Incredible-Including/dp/B0BSRFQLD6/
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I didn’t mention ideology. By positions I just mean unbundled elements of what you’re calling moral character. They can be implicit in behavioral invariants.
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Good but ambiguous prompt. Clarification in replies specifies the presumption that every position on every issue has good and bad reasons for adopting it, so it’s really “opposed bad reason is better than my side’s bad reason.” Also if you’re a moral relativist like me you can ignore the bundled idea of a “moral character” and just do issue positions. Ironically I find people who adopt conscious and consistent “moral characters” to be generally less moral than those who just make it up as they go along. Moral muddlers who don’t aim for monolithic postures.
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In India, yes
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The trick is to produce data exhaust so vacuous, nobody can make a profit aggregating it
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It’s supposed to be wearing a muzzle
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Made a logo for Elon’s new America party based on the GoP and democrats logos. Wdyt?
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