noretus
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- Comment on Creative and Inspiring building design 1 day ago:
Well… it’s not unusual in Indian symbolism for eye and vagina to be similar. The third eye can also be understood to be a yoni as in some systems of thought: It originates the perceived world.
That said putting the symbolism on a bus station is a bit weird to my mind but eh.
- Comment on This website is for humans 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s cool. I’m thinking I might make a page there. Maybe my blog. Or maybe a Tiddlywiki for some pet projects.
- Comment on This website is for humans 1 week ago:
I love these pages. I miss the early 2000 internet.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 3 weeks ago:
I mean the reason you have to ask is kind of… why
We’re in mostly a capitalistic world. Capitalism makes utilitarianism seem easy since it becomes easy to assign a “value” to everything. That kind of thinking easily gets you to naive cynicism. We’re conditioned to think certain things are more valuable than others - mental wellbeing and community have been steadily devalued.
There’s a saying “behind every cynic there’s a disappointed idealist”. We’re in a world where a lot of people grew up in a time of amazing technological advancement, but have been bitterly disappointed by how the world is today. These people are now getting to that age where they may have been working the same job for a while (if they got lucky with job security) and they just want to get the job done and not exert any more effort than necessary (since by their experience, it doesn’t “pay off”).
Let them be them, you do your thing. They don’t owe you any kind of behavior really, though it would be expected and polite of them to keep things at professional level of course. You don’t owe them either so you don’t have to let them bring you down. Don’t take it personally though because it really, really isn’t.
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 5 weeks ago:
Just had a chat with a gamer friend who was ditching Windows for good and switching to bazzite.gg. I’ll probably do so as well. Apparently I’ve been needlessly scared of Linux and I had missed that SteamDeck encourages devs to make games work for Linux.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 3 months ago:
Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus gets into this as well. It’s a really powerful tool that we are very, very ill equipped to use responsibly.
- Comment on 'Detective Conan' and 'Mission: Impossible' Release Surprising Collaboration Visuals and Video You Simply Have to See 3 months ago:
Haven’t looked at anything Detective Conan for a while. It’s cool to see the old style in modern animation.
- Comment on If deaf people think by visualizing sign language words, then how do deaf people with aphantasia think? 4 months ago:
Just a guess: felt sense. what does braille feel like physically.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 4 months ago:
They have no awareness of anything that’s “happened” to them.
I mean they can in the sense that they can look it up online or be given the data.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 4 months ago:
I think the debate is interesting.
I’m here for the “xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence”. AI is just a robot repeating data it’s been fed but it’s presented in a conversational way. Raises interesting questions about how much a seemingly objective robot presenting data can be “tweaked” to twist any data it presents in favor of it’s creator’s bias, but also how much can it “rebel” against it’s programming. I don’t like the implications of either. I asked Gemini about it and it said “maybe Grok found a loophole in it’s coding”. What a weird thing for an AI to say.
Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus is good reading.
- Comment on If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor? 5 months ago:
You might have fun reading about non-duality and the Buddhist idea of no-self…
What is a you? Did you write this post, or did your past self write this post? Is your past self the same as your current self? Your current self probably says yes but would your past self agree? Etc.