Burning Ash

living in interesting times..

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@elonmusk He’s paid to say that it’s all fluff - what it all boils down to is whether we can keep the next generation from getting neurotic due to a lack of challenge.

#weAreSalmon

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@JohnCleese My sympathy to the virgins - are they recycled after that?

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@elonmusk You’re obviously biased

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@JohnCleese Does justice have to be diverse in order to be blind … or to be SEEN as blind.

Nothing as blind as a dead parrot.

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@NinaDSchick It doesn’t matter how much compute we add we would’ve still ended up like this. Given the progress we’ve made it’s only natural that we would immediately hit the first resource constraint.

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@nntaleb See Gödel’s theorem - coarsely put - its when academics, using perfectly good logic, $hit their beds

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@JohnCleese They put the nappy at the wrong end

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@ElonogyX Therein lies the rub

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@Clock_Hypocrisy @elonmusk That would be terrible! If you deported all Black people, Russian would lose what might be the best Prime Minister in the last hundred years.

I would be careful though, putting words into other people’s mouth

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@r0ck3t23 When we are no longer striving we are then confronted by a much more intractable problem: Mortality

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@elonmusk It reminds me of the last scene of one of the Hannibal Lecter movies where Hannibal is feeding a guy his own brain while they talk

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@elonmusk Western civilization reminds me of a fat caterpillar being attacked by ants: it doesn’t know pieces are being chewed off.

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@sairahul1 Effective use of agents relates to how well you can delegate tasks, which in turn relates to how well you can plan, and how well you can communicate. How well you communicate depends how well you can set the terms of reference - then delegate but don’t abdicate

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@nntaleb That’s not gonna stop me from trying to beat my former Strava self - even if it was 10 years ago

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@PolemicsNParody @JohnCleese We are no longer the knights who say “Ni !” - we are now the knights who say “Islamophobe!”

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@JohnCleese Would they ask the same question if it were Jews? Do Hindus have a beef with the principle?

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@JohnCleese Real racism is not taking the time to understand cultural and regional differences. Most Western people think everyone is like themselves and share the same priorities. The lack of interest is Ignorant, arrogant and lazy

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Fake news is not so much the content but the relative importance of the chosen topics

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@elonmusk The moralists occupy the conversational space needed to address the real issues at stake.

Fake news breeds fake discussions

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@WorkElizab How much does it pay and is there room for advancement? Can you work from home?