Does anyone have any advice for someone that is curious about moving from Google to LibreOffice? I work in a collaborative environment where everyone immediately having access to the same data on different environments (including mobile) is desirable.
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Lambdanaut commented on Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South 404media.co/pornhub-is-no... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
I don't agree with puritanical laws like this, but I do believe that the quantity and quality of porn consumed in the US constitutes a non-trivial public mental health crisis, and I hope that this will drive into people the serious risks of taking your dopamine receptors for constant, convenient, quick rides that scratch an itch without providing the experience of genuinely connecting with another living, breathing human being that cares.
Real, vulnerable connection can provide meaning in a way that manufactured fast porn can never give, and I believe that connection can be an important aspect of self actualization towards a meaningful existence.
I'm not claiming that rare, conscious consumption of pornography can't be integrated into a healthy, fulfilled life, but that the way it's mindlessly consumed by so many is keeping us from that fulfilled life.
Lambdanaut commented on AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment thezvi.substack.com/p/ais... · Posted by u/theptip
I like your argument but I often wonder if my mind is nothing but a black box of math and the inputs I’m providing are creating outputs I don’t want.
Black box of carbon or a black box of silicon.
Lambdanaut commented on In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality washingtonpost.com/books/... · Posted by u/Caiero
Even if that is true, the actual you is just as assuredly dead.
"Actual me"?
I'm the sea of energy from which all life and death springs from. We all live and die in it.
Lambdanaut commented on In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality washingtonpost.com/books/... · Posted by u/Caiero
So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience? Because your conscience and sense of self is what most people would describe as gone when you die, and that's where the fear comes from. Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self...
> So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience?
No division.
> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self
Where did you get that idea?
Lambdanaut commented on In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality washingtonpost.com/books/... · Posted by u/Caiero
> I think, most people who want to be immortal are actually motivated by either the fear of death...
How are you not afraid of death? How is anyone not afraid of death? This baffles me. I mean, I don't spend my days agonizing over the fact that I will die someday, mainly because it has no use. Chronic anxiety won't help me as long as I take the necessary actions. But I'm sure as hell scared shitless of dying overall.
If I were 100 years old and every day was a struggle, sure, I'd want to just get it over with. But I have a really hard time understanding why people won't want to stay 30 years old forever. You, your conscience, the only thing that matters, will cease to exist. If that doesn't strike fear in a person, I don't know what will.
Death is just the name we give to the moment when the condensed energy that is moving this system that calls itself a body breaks down into a temporarily simpler state.
At some point I'll get caught up in some whirlpool of energy and find myself crawling out of some uterus again as I have time and time again for all of eternity.
Yippee.
Lambdanaut commented on Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait cnbc.com/2024/06/29/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Granted, individuals will only receive ~15% of their original claim, the increase in value over time will make it worth it for many.
Lambdanaut commented on Bitcoin windfall for Mt. Gox creditors after 10 year wait cnbc.com/2024/06/29/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Is there any way to identify if I'm a creditor with the email I registered with years ago?
It is far far too late to get paid. Several deadlines have passed.
This is really cool! Having a lot of fun with it
> Humans don't have world models
To
> Of course humans have world models
To
> You fools, there is no such thing as a "world model" and you are all hamsters!
Classic Socratic dialogue.