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spongebobism commented on We Need to Die   willllliam.com/blog/why-w... · Posted by u/ericzawo
npodbielski · 5 days ago
> they'd evolve so completely that you'd become a different person anyway.

How is that a bad thing? Are you the same person you were when you were 15? Of course not. Is it the case for when you were 20 or 30? No. The whole point of living is to learn, gather new experiences and grow. Would you stop doing that because you are immortal? No.

I think author is caught too much in his work whatever it is. Me, personnally would love to meet my grandkids and their kids. Learn and try do new things for dozens of years.

Would this be bad to see the wolrd or even other worlds if we could be able to visit other planets?

I think the main problem is that people are getting old and unhealthy. My grandpa was living for 92 years and I saw that he is miserable. He was fine mentally but his body was failing him. Imagine getting up in the morning and everything hurts. You try to go to the bathroom but your hand are shaking. That is the problem.

At some point you just do not want to live anymore. Because it is just suffering.

spongebobism · 5 days ago
> > they'd evolve so completely that you'd become a different person anyway.

> How is that a bad thing?

The point isn't that it's bad, but that it's equivalent to dying and then someone else taking your place. So if it's OK for your character to change fundametally over the span of your life, then it must also be OK for you to die at some point and yield the stage to the next generation.

spongebobism commented on Richard Stallman on ChatGPT   stallman.org/chatgpt.html... · Posted by u/colesantiago
spongebobism · 6 days ago
There are some semantic debates going on in this thread about the term "bullshit". But there is a clear definition. The paper Stallman links to uses bullshit in the Frankfurtian sense, that is, talk without care for the truth:

> The liar, Frankfurt holds, knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. The "bullshitter", on the other hand, does not care about the truth and is only seeking "to manipulate the opinions and the attitudes of those to whom they speak"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con...

spongebobism commented on Richard Stallman on ChatGPT   stallman.org/chatgpt.html... · Posted by u/colesantiago
pupppet · 6 days ago
Or he’s just shaking his fist at the clouds again.
spongebobism · 6 days ago
why not both?
spongebobism commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill   nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
amypetrik8 · 11 days ago
also to keep it like Singapore, let's deport all people illegally (but beat the crap out of them first), execute all drug dealers, execute all drug addicts, and most other criminals - beat the crap out of them and release.

the nice thing about common sense beatings is the cost of prison, housing, food, etc. is all zero, and the whole prison political topic is a non-issue. beatings are in fact extremely efficient, effective, and cheap, which is why lee kwon yew adopted them

spongebobism · 11 days ago
So the thing about disneyland with the death penalty that attracts you is the death penalty? Geez...
spongebobism commented on Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division   heise.de/en/news/Cherry-g... · Posted by u/jsheard
ch_123 · 18 days ago
A little over a decade ago, the patents expired on the MX switch design. The first clones (mostly from China) were cheap and terrible. Then came the ones which were cheap and almost as good. Then came the ones which were better than the originals, and eventually the ones which were more innovative too.

Meanwhile, Cherry kept making the same product line which they had since the 1980s, with relatively minor improvements.

spongebobism · 17 days ago
Is it so bad to stick with a product that works? I use a Cherry KC200 MX specifically because it is a simple office keyboard.
spongebobism commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works   github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor
kreetx · 20 days ago
Nothing!

Another question though when reading his blog: is he himself full AI? as in, not even a human writing those blog posts. Reads a bit like that.

spongebobism · 20 days ago
Presumably the LLM also wrote the blog post. At least, it generated a file named OCAML_DWARF_BLOG_POST.md: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-bc37d03...
spongebobism commented on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels   grist.org/buildings/how-g... · Posted by u/bilsbie
BoredPositron · 2 months ago
Thats a lot of historical revision if you blame a dude who was minister for 3.5 years about decisions made 20-30 years ago. Same for your last paragraph. Nothing even close to that happened in the years he governed. Maybe you should start showing recipes because it looks like your grievances are personal in nature and everything but factual.
spongebobism · 2 months ago
More like 3.5 years, right? December 2021 through May 2025.
spongebobism commented on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
pyrale · 3 months ago
Privacy professing prelate

Surveillance-Suspicious Saint

spongebobism · 3 months ago
Chain of Custody Cakkavatti
spongebobism commented on Hypervisor in 1k Lines   1000hv.seiya.me/en... · Posted by u/lioeters
LiamPowell · 3 months ago
How do you define an OS? You can write an EFI "OS" that prints "Hello, world" in approximately 5 lines.
spongebobism · 3 months ago
It's a bit more than that.

> We'll implement basic context switching, paging, user mode, a command-line shell, a disk device driver, and file read/write operations in C.

see https://1000os.seiya.me/en/

spongebobism commented on X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls   popsci.com/technology/tib... · Posted by u/Hooke
throwaway290 · 4 months ago
> You can see how a lot of good karma is accrued.

FYI there's no "good karma" in Tibetan buddhism. There is just karma. Karma is not good because it will cause samsara.

Maybe it is supposed to be a fun cheat to remove karma not "accrue good karma" but surely no one uses it seriously lol

spongebobism · 4 months ago
Is that an innovation of Mahayana or Vajrayana Buddhism? I've only read Theravada texts, and in those, good and bad Karma are clearly differentiated. Attaining a pleasant rebirth is considered a wholesome pursuit that the teachings of the Buddha are supposed to help you with, though it is considered a lower pursuit than attaining Nirvana (the hierarchy is pleasant current life < pleasant rebirth < Nirvana, and the Dhamma claims to be the supreme authority on all 3).

u/spongebobism

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