Simon LeBas

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@BrianRoemmele One model of creativity is that it arises from (fruitful) new combinations of already known things. Imagine being able to match everything we know with everything we know and looking for the sparks! AI can surely do that.

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@BrianRoemmele @PhantasticU I retain the successive drafts of academic essays, so that I can prove my authorship by showing the step by step development of the finished work, rather than the 'instant finished product' coming from AI or plagiery. Every student should know to do this.

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@alunsays @rash1_rash Glad I'm not the only one who noticed. Huge opportunity blown through under-preparation / under-rehearsal. Feel sad for the orchestra and arrangers. BBC just can't help itself

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@juneslater17 "We are destined for a future of less, because they need more."

No, it's not that they need more. It is that their greed is bottomless.

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@s8mb There is no "new need to raise revenue". There is rather the ongoing refusal to control expenditure

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@Kristof_Poland The 'maximum freedom model' only works among people of good character, operating within a high-trust society. If the stonemasons stole the building naterials there could be no cathedral

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@grok Hi, I asked Grok for the source of the phrase about the wicked "flourishing like a green bay-tree"

Grok said it came from Psalm 37:35 in 1611 King James Bible, but it is from the Book of Common Prayer. (no "flourish in KJV) Please fix the reasoning fault!

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@ProudofusUK Don't leave out Percy Pilcher!

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@esrtweet You ask "why is Microsoft treating its users so badly?"
The reason is that the management have a different priority than users (tpoasiwid). Some of them don't know how to improve the company, so they prioritize improving their personal situation. Some do know, but don't care.

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@ConceptualJames Thank you James. This helps a great deal and also shows the value of the background work you have done over the years, reading the primary sources (Marcuse, Heidegger, etc) and laying out the depths of the iceberg we see the tip of in the headlines - if that makes sense.

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@ScottAdamsSays @joelpollak Priceless gifts from Scott Adams include:
Dilbert's "out out demons of stupidity" and "must control fists of death"
Plaid Blanket talks in the dark times of 2020's 'election'
The reframe "alcohol is poison"
The books WB, HTL, RYB, GD
Living in full: showing us how

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@AJA_Cortes research

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@ScottAdamsSays Dear Scott Adams
This no-account foreigner thanks you for everything, especially:
-The Plaid Blanket talks during the darkest days
-Systems over Goals
-Talent Stacking
Reframe your Brain
"Alcohol is poison"
-Pursue meaning, rather than happiness
-Follow the energy

You done good

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@BrianRoemmele I was taught that '+' was derived from latin shorthand for 'et', which also gave us the ampersand '&'.

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@elonmusk It was done in Sweden in 1990, called the October miracle. Even 35 years later the system is very simple and very clear. Copy what they did!