I share common cause with all who demonstrate a consistent intention to be honest and afford grace and good will towards their fellow man.

I'm watching a show where a character, and by extension the audience, has to multiple times suffer an automated recording when they call a phone number, before they can leave a voicemail. For those unaware, most of those systems allow skipping recordings by pressing pound (#).

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How often do you think it's mutually beneficial engagement farming that leads so many on this site to engaging (replying, quote posting, tagging) people they otherwise claim to thoroughly disapprove of? And how often is it genuine ignorance about how the site works—that it

One of my favorite "gotchas" that applies even to most "smart" or "well-educated" people. This is not a faithful depiction of Atlas. Atlas' burden is neither the world nor planet Earth.

Do not practice what you do not want to become

Merry New Year!

@whatifalthist The reality of culture, and how varied it can be, and its inherent influence on communication is nothing new. What's perhaps new is that a large portion of the population is in denial about being, effectively, cultural hikkikomori. And, like hikkikomori, the ability to live that

"Wow those things I imagined them saying are really stupid. Sure shows what an unintelligent/unreasonable person they are." I hate that I reliably encounter this attitude daily.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I don't like the definitional framing, as few if any words truly have singular definitions. It seems obvious the "reading" people are talking about is like when someone says, casually, "I enjoy reading before bed." Most people will understand that to mean that the person enjoys

Mmm, fresh resupply from the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing concern. 🥰

@PticaArop @casinokrisa @MarioNawfal @aurion_spark No, it just simply doesn't matter. The only way the text represents consciousness is if the text IS NOT being generated by the software. Like, if the text being output is actually erroneous, and not representing the design of the software. So long as it's generated by software

@PticaArop @casinokrisa @MarioNawfal No need to. @casinokrisa is speaking to the origin of the text, not whether consciousness is posessed by the machine that output it. That is, even if your argument is that the physical machine itself is conscious, there's no basis for assigning conscious meaning to the output of

I bit my cheek the other day and ever since then I keep thinking there's something in my mouth and I hate it. 😵‍💫

Well, that was a strange interaction and apparent reason to be blocked. I'm trying to think what it was about my post that was perceived as hostile. My best guess is some sort of anxiety or paranoia—seeing enemies everywhere by default—and a resultant impairment of ability to

I sometimes wonder if a key distinction predicting much of what we see in other terms might simply be between those who think they can predict the future, and thus build their entire worldview around that assumption, and those who don't. 🤔

“In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. And it was only when I lay there rotting on prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.”

@InHumaneShape @CynicalPublius Perhaps, akin to "nerd-sniping", they're taking advantage of "virtue-sniping" to increase their relevance? https://t.co/IaqMFttd2f

@LejonBrames12 @UnmitigatedAss I fell in love with reading very early, in that time people tend not to remember so well. And I'm not sure it was any specific books that did it, so much as just what books in general represented. That is, perhaps I fell in love with reading because it meant I was never alone or