The benefits of a Game of Thrones education.
Accidentally replied to a sub post!
I cannot comment on the content of your post because I simply don't know the history of India,
and your comment does remind me of a book by Steven Pinker called The Better Angels of Our Nature where he details, in gruesome descriptions, the fact that humanity's past has been filled with barbarities.
We have gradually on everage become more peaceful and more empathetic through our evolution.
Humanity's history is full of horrors, and these happened pretty much everywhere, as far as I understand it.
What's extremely confusing today, I think, is that not everywhere has changed to the same amount of empathy at the same time. Just like in any population or country in the planet, a certain percentage of people are going to be psychopaths.
Where a lot of, perhaps, let's call them liberal views, get it a bit wrong, is imagining that absolutely everyone in the world holds the exact same liberal values and attitudes as the best liberal people of the West do.
Actually, it's a vast tapestry, and some areas are more liberal, and other areas are less liberal. And some people in amongst groups are more liberal, and some are less liberal. Some parts of the world are more violent, in their systems, their attitudes, beliefs, etc. Some do violence in different ways -- USA and Russia have 13,000 nuclear warheads pointed at each other -- that's violence also.
And this is a challenge for globalization, but I think it just means that globalization needs to happen -- to get all its benefits -- gradually, perhaps slowly in a moderated way, rather than massive changes which are perhaps a little bit counterproductive.
There is a common humanity but we also have a common barbarity in our collective history and -- as the saying goes -- the future has already been invented but it isn't evenly distributed yet -- so have to include that in a way that works, not in a way that's chaotic and catastrophic. It just needs doing with moderation.
But this also means being moderate in how we go about making generalizations about groups. That becomes labeling and othering, and that, if done in a blind way, doesn't really help anyone.
It's better to just look realistically at peoples and situations and context. As they are now. As you find them right now. Try to see everything fresh -- we can all still make judgments, we just have to be careful that they are good judgments rather than blind judgments.
Every judgement is only a piece of the picture, a partial truth.
For example, it seems to be in the interests of the world's superpowers to promote and back the most extreme and violent groups amongst developing countries as a way to keep those countries destabilised, fragile, and easier to control and influence.
If the world's superpowers had been actively backing and promoting the most reasonable, modern, forward-looking groups amongst the developing countries, I think the picture today would be quite different.
And that doesn't negate the barbarities of the past from across the world, be it the Roman Empire, the British Empire, various Chinese dynasties, etc.
My understanding of Cloudflare is that they're a reverse-proxy. So I think the issue is that due to these particular sites using Cloudflare, a legit DNS lookup still resolves to Cloudflare's service.
These websites have chosen for Cloudflare to be the middleman between themselves and all their users.
looking forward to reliving the rich text email versus plain text flame wars with the waiter!
Yum!
And have the presence of mind, and the giving-a-fuck (you have something to lose!), to actually bother using them.
AFAIK I've never slipped one past the goalie, but the times I risked it, is when I was poorer and life was generally worse and I was overall (not just sexually) less risk-averse. The more comfortable my life, the more I've maintained safe practices.
What do you say to the people who claim that we need gas because it is flexible and fast enough to cope with the high variability of renewables and we need nuclear because we're always going to need base load in quantities that are hard to get otherwise?
Europe has the kind of choice where everything comes with spam. Yes also a Europe citizen.
I figured the "tastes like chicken" comments were inevitable and then you throw in Peter Jackson, and obviously everyone is thinking about Bad Taste. But then I couldn't think of any really good ones, so I'll just punish the world with the Jackson jokes that I did come up with.
The moas died because they were feeble. As the Feebles, get it?
Um, what did the moa say to the kung-fu catholic priest? "Oh yeah? Well I kick ass for The Lord of the Rings!"
How many moas does it take to prepare ear-pus-custard? Moa than you would believe!
Done with the gain-of-function research, Chang is assigned to clean out the cages. But why throw out the live animals when he can get a few yuan for them down at the market?
Hijinx ensue!
This could be a good comedy movie. Chang should have some amusing [mis]adventures along the way!
I would at least pirate this movie, and then eventually watch it too.
Yes, I was going to add that, after all, probability is something we conceptualised, as humans, and then we built machines that work on that principle! we worried that the robot will want to kill us and what's the first thing we do when we can build drones? Use them to kill.
I agree that humans mimic LLMs with respect to probability judgements. Marketers know that if you see a "fact" written in a few different articles or sources, you come to assume it's true, for example. We rely on what our culture feeds us and we internalise it as beliefs.
But the other words you mentioned are actually very difficult and deep questions which smart people throughout the ages have wrestled with and we still don't know the answers today. Sentience/the ability to have an experience is the most obvious and direct reality we each have, yet nobody knows how that works.
Yes our minds can remember things we've heard and repeat them like a photocopier or an LLM, but we don't know what is experiencing the whole show.
That's why everyone needs to smoke marijuana: so that they'll get into the habit of carrying around some cash for dispensaries. Then, in a pinch, it can be temporarily diverted to groceries for emergencies.
As long as people are careful to replenish the drug fund once the power and networks come back, everything will be fine. We just don't want them blowing all their money on groceries. Feed your family responsibly!
Surprise due today. Also the rent.
