Gary Dean

Australian-Indonesian. Chairman, @OkusiAssociates. #Indonesian_Corporate_Services | #Linux #AI #OpenSource | #AppliedAnthropology | #BraveNewWorlds

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Yayasan Teknologi Terbuka Indonesia
Indonesian Open Technology Foundation

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@PeterDiamandis i prefer the term ETR (eat the rich).

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@veraxlab peter thiel is a fascist cunt. but gawker had it coming.

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@PeterDiamandis why would *anyone* want to live in a shithole like the USA?

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@lydiahallie /esp

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@Prathkum @csaba_kissi try upgrading to linux

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@trq212 thank you. i shall never say a bad word about anthropic again. well, at least, not until the next Big Thing comes along.

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@samell @claudeai #metoo

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@elonmusk soon to be picturesque ruins.

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@sama this is sam's attempt to gain re-admittance to the human race.

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@elonmusk @spencerpratt the laddy doth protest too muche methinks.

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@igor_os777 i don't think the french use freedom units.

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Part 8: Creating Dharmas
We've always made our dharmas, then told ourselves we found them. Can we now do it on purpose -- for a planet, and for the machines we're building? Plural, but not anything-goes: judged by whether it holds without crushing.
https://t.co/6t7qqXZUpX

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Most people meet 'dharma' in a yoga studio. Wrong address! A dharma is what every human group builds to hold itself together -- an ethical world to live inside. Made, not found. Plural, no gods required.
Eight essays, fully sourced. Come argue with me!
https://t.co/l5q8z2Ja0j

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Part 7: Dharmas in a Secular Age
Hundreds of millions now call themselves 'spiritual but not religious' -- hunting a dharma without the old foundations. Can a godless one still bind you? Or does it collapse into another wellness product?
https://t.co/ktLWd4ExY7

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Part 6: When Dharmas Go Wrong
Everything that makes a dharma work also makes it dangerous. The same machinery that let Java's Samin refuse authority let caste sanctify it. Corruption, dogma, exclusion, the yoga-studio con -- the honest reckoning.
https://t.co/OwB4YZf39u

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Part 5: How a Dharma Gets Under Your Skin
A dharma you merely agree with does nothing. The ones that work rewire you -- through ritual, repetition, habit -- until they feel like plain truth from the inside. That's their power, and their danger.
https://t.co/kuqwq5oQBw

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Part 4: A World of Dharmas
Ubuntu, the Stoics, the Aboriginal Dreaming, the Abrahamic covenants -- set them side by side and the same cooperative core shows through very different gods. Once you can see dharmas, you can't stop seeing them.
https://t.co/dEx0eFItrz

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Part 3: The Dharmas of the Samin of Java
A whole dharma built from scratch in the teak forests of Java around 1890 -- honesty, simplicity, land held in common -- by an illiterate farmer who wrote nothing down. His heirs still fight for the hills today.
https://t.co/IWcLTJ5J5x

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Part 2: The Genesis of Dharmas
Dharmas aren't handed down from mountaintops -- they grow wherever humans must trust strangers. Seven moral rules turn up across 60 societies with no exceptions. Morality is, always and everywhere, a cooperative craft.
https://t.co/Z8iP8Dx9t4

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Part 1: Defining Dharma
The word traces to a Sanskrit root meaning 'to hold, to support' -- a cousin of our word 'firm'. A 'dharma' is whatever holds a way of life together. There's no single true one; secular and religious sit on the same shelf.
https://t.co/mDnSdJJBvG