Dextral Lean

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@Nina_Power_ Every thought is just a neural network interpreting consciousness. We are all mere instruments on a motherboard, full of sound and electrons, signifying.

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I like the trend of "outing" ai generated writing because it highlights how so much of what so many write is and always was slop anyway.

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I like the trend of "outing" ai generated writing because it highlights how so much of what so many write is and always was slop anyway.

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@Nina_Power_ AI might never decide to simply not write the email and pick up the phone instead!

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@0x49fa98 @justalexoki I don't love this idea that there is a "correct" answer to questions that we will almost certainly never have answers to. Better to discard "luck" or "destiny" altogether. A false dichotomy. These are unknowable things that we can certainly philosophize about but not answer.

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@ghostofchristo1 So, nothing's changed.

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@BMStudebaker It's not just here or there, it's everywhere!

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@BMStudebaker Perhaps worse is the impulse that we actually deserve to know everything all the time. The idea that the legitimacy of democracy actually *requires* total ongoing transparency of everything.

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@ghostofchristo1 That's why it's better to focus on the memes. Things have to survive the memetic selection pressure to become a meme, at which point you get a properly distilled high potency rubbish product that can rot your brain efficiently.

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@ghostofchristo1 It's because it's ALL fake. All the consumer culture! AI is just revealing the transient valueless merit of modern lifestyle. "Touch grass" is obviously a pejorative direction but it's perhaps the only alternative. Maybe gardening.

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@BMStudebaker The problem I had which led to getting into a PhD then dropping out, was that I could never shake a need to be a person with a PhD in something important to others, rather than in something interesting to me. So I didn't have the interest-fire you need to see it through.

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I never got my PhD because, two times, years apart, after being accepted by the University, I decided I couldn't be bothered. One of those times I even started, then dropped out...

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I got my PhD because I love political theory and wanted to be with it forever

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@nealjclark1 I guess there is always your tweets

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@Nina_Power_ A lot of British values can be ascertained by looking at the mirror world of Australia, where egalitarian values sprung up precisely in opposition to British class tradition for instance, yet we kept "mateship" as an interpersonal contract. People get all this wrong a lot.

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@ArdenMetroMafia @john_macgowan "white collar crim doing community service" sounds like a pretty good working definition of "politician" frankly

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@GrayConnolly Just cannot stop winning! 🇦🇺🐨🦘🐨🇦🇺🐨🦘🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

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@nealjclark1 This is one reason why I like the "social interaction" of people I talk to through work. It scratches that itch AND I get paid!

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@nealjclark1 People do change, sometimes dramatically, but I've always put this down to destiny - this really is who they are, someone who can adapt. It's not reinvention. People deciding to become a "different person", that's completely different and like you say, usually obvious.

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@moveincircles Depends on the art. If it's paintings for instance, then only people with arts majors or a particular interest in art history are likely to "read" the painting. For others it might just be a pretty picture.

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@ClonalAntibody @BMStudebaker *Gregorian calendar, get it right!