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i saw a space ship blow up once and immediately decided i wanted to get in one

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gravity is a greater force than history
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i think, downstream of the fact that so many people and organizations have drastically misunderstood what proof assistant actually do, learning formal proof is probably the most career valuable thing you could do right now
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people are wrong about lean right now in a way that is susiciously similar to the way people were wrong about xml in 1999
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i'm not convinced that any of you know what the word "utopia" means
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i don't think i really understand what motivates the desire to escape history, and the assertion that the times in which you live is fundamentally different than all others before it, but i do know that it makes you insane instantly. there is no sane way to hold that belief
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nearly choked on my coffee when i read this
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in retrospect it should have been obvious that extending a privileged socioeconomic status to a subculture that believes "worse is better" would result in severe degredation of political and economic institutions
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i am becoming sincerely concerned that a number of people i know have suffered something that is symptomatically indistinguishable from cranial trauma after prolonged claude use. many of the them are executives
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i think it's good that we don't have any economy besides this anymore. i'm confident nothing bad will happen as a result
Marc Benioff
@BenioffOct 9
The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.
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the guy who originated the concept of the neolithic period seems to have believed that technological progress slowed down substantially after it was over
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it's those damn hittites and their bronze that's holding us back
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crime is fundamentally inextricable from human history and we need to acknowledge its necessity to properly explain most phenomena in politics, economics, warfare, and culture
Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books!
@oldbooksguyOct 7
What philosophical opinion will get you like this?
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i am not a marxist, but i have always deeply appreciated the community of marxist political theorists and historians for being substantially more sane and productive than the other traditions in either field. however, whenever i catch a glimpse of dsa discourse, i reel in horror
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like what do you mean "for marx, communism exists only as a social practice, [...] not as an ideal picture of society waiting at the end of history"? i've read marx declare that communism is the terminus of history three times within the last week
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i have to admit, attempting to convince the catholic church to give up two thousand years of theological development in favor of a secular millenarian ideological framework takes courage
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if only anyone involved had the historical awareness or critical perspective required to understand how funny it is
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"the bronze age collapse was caused by the proliferation of iron weapons" is truly a thesis that only an economist could love
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in no universe would i ever have guessed the first person to elevate a pedestrian software product to the status of a pagan idol and declare "superintelligence" would be donald trump
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to be honest, i can believe everything that's happening right now. personally. i don't think any of this is historically unique, epistemologically shocking, or spiritually disturbing
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no matter how politically convenient it may be in the current moment, there is still absolutely no reason to extend any credibility to steven pinker. the reason he is a great avatar for this dispute is because he is equally as illiterate and uncritical as his assailant
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something i'm realizing historical study of millenarian movements has missed is how big a role a bifurcation in consensus reality plays in the process of rationalization. ie for technomillenarians, it is currently irrational to believe that ai hasn't "solved" math and programming
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from an external perspective the concept of "solving' either discipline has no agreed-upon meaning, and any effect of such solving is purely hypothetical. but within the millenarian framing the idea is old, and mainstream discussion about it is taken as evidence of its completion
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now i think it would be difficult for me to treat post-disappointment rationalization as if it was particularly mysterious. i can easily imagine someone reaffirming those beliefs for the next 20 years, and feeling like they have a very solid base of evidence to do so
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