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  • And it’s merely a hypothesis, there is no proof. Also we can assume that chemical plants are aware and have taken precautions, but it still happens. Back in the day it was speculated that chemists caried microcrystals around in their beards. This problem has been around for a while. One of the coolest hypothesis has been put forward by Rupert Sheldrake. He thinks that there is something in nature akin to memory. A force of nature as you will.



  • I don’t know why we should take 12 year olds as an example? Surely you didn’t know certain things at 12 that you know now. Assuming you are 13+

    I’m just saying that things will trickle into common knowledge. And there will always be people who know jack shit. Obviously.

    But when you play music from a streaming service you don’t go like. Wow people had to rewind cassette tapes! No, you understand the progression music carriers have made and just enjoy the music. You could buy a tape recorder and tapes and they are still available, if you would want. The same applies to coding, and other technologies.


  • You mean that less people need to understand code? Like that’s just natural progression. There are many coding languages because hardly anybody knows how to code in machine language or punch cards and we’ve been making coding easier for humans. The progression to natural language is a natural one.

    LLMs bridging the gap between coding and natural language isn’t going to be a mystery in the future. Just like we don’t go like “a person punched all those holes in the cards? no way!” Because yes they did and we all understand that that was something that needed to be done at that time. We simply appreciate the amount of work it took. It’s a lot more that typing ‘cryptic letters’, which we will all know in the future also as coding. i don’t understand why you believe everybody in the future is an idiot.


  • It does matters who did/does the art. That’s only possible if you can separate the two. Art can be copied and has been since forever. People value the same art from different artists differently. It’s not the art itself that carries the value. If the painting of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre turned out to be a facsimile for display, it’s identical in every way, would the people enjoy it less? Say that it isn’t ‘real’ even though it is right there in front of their eyes? Would that facsimile be worth the same? Clearly people aren’t just interested in what the art is, but who made it. We believe that the artist puts meaning and intent in the art, but these aren’t in the art itself. For most of the art we experience that is completely unavailable to us. There is clearly a distinction between our experience of art and our experience of art from the ‘original’ artist. So while knowing who made what and why adds value to art, it isn’t necessary to experience and enjoy this art.

    It is completely conceivable that someone feels attracted to the aesthetics of art whilst fully ignorant about the artist. The artist can’t control someones emotions, thoughts and feelings. It’s not the artist who decided what aesthetics evolved adter millions of years of human evolution, conditioning, culture. An artist can only hope to align themselves to it and hope people agree on it. And so good art can elicit all the right feelings even when nothing is known about the. artist.





  • The processes in manufacturing largely remained the same. Doing things faster makes things easier not more difficult.

    Look at the Eiffel tower for example, immensely complicated, wild design and largely pointless (compared to modern standards).

    Or compare old wooden windmills to one of the most modern structures, large open water windmills. hundreds of meters tall, simple tubular construction.

    The ability that CAD and computer power in general gave us was the ability to simplify and not use more than necessary. The ability to model strength, rigidity and whatever forces necessary, that’s where the real power lies.

    and i think that we can’t really speak about more or less difficult. The structures and designs of the past clearly have a very high level of complexity, while most modern constructions deliberately eliminate complexity. But we can’t do that without computers.




  • Because it isnt a list of sex offenders. Its a list of contacts, clients, whatever. Just having a name on a list from Epstein doesn’t mean anything beyond being suspicious. It doesn’t prove anything by itself. But the public doesn’t care about that. So the people on that list need to be protected, they are innocent until proven guilty. You can’t and shouldn’t want to make it public.

    There is no deep conspiracy necessary. Although powerful people are implicated due to being on the list, or actually did things that are fucked up. The fact none of it got public isnt proof of conspiracy, rather of a functioning legal system. And it wouldnt surprise me if these papers simply never got handed over to any politician, despite their claims.

    And them asking stupid questions like ‘hand me over the list of child molesters that epstein made’…which doesn’t exist. Lets not forget that most of these Trumpets are exceedingly dumb.




  • Yes. And also explains why worldviews are so different between cultural, linguistical and geographically different groups of people.

    Even though we’re becoming more and more unified, through the internet, through logic systems like maths or science in general. This is not to be mistaken for truth. Western scientific ideology specifically has as unspoken ‘truth’ that when ideas ‘win’, they are more valuable. While English, our logical rules, our ideologies are winning not because they are true but because they are believed more, or over, other languages, logic systems and ideologies.

    Ofcourse these systems of beliefs create opportunities and knowledge for people. Don’t mistake my dismissal of truth for disaproval.