allanolley.bsky.social
Fan of many things and over degreed and underemployed. Groucho Marxist. 🥸
Advocate of mining the Sun for helium. ⛏️🔆
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There is clearly a huge question of calibration is 0/10 attractiveness = 10/10 repulsiveness, or is 1/10 repulsiveness = -1/10 attractiveness. I suspect this is not well standardized among discussants.
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Now that you ask I'm not sure, but mostly the bell curve? Except probably shifted to the right compared to most people. Like to me less than 5 would be actually repels me, which to my mind is pretty rare.
But sometimes I would probably think oh yeah % of population.🤷♂️
Doesn't come up much for me.
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A Google books search for an appropriate exact phrase (put phrase inside " " to search for exact phrase) reveals:
The Naked Nuns by Colin Watson (1975)
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Never trust anyone who claims they can get your whites "whiter than white"!
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I've only watched a very few episode of Rick and Morty and of course seen endless memes and references. I can believe it, but I'm pretty sure that did not inspire me.
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Now maybe somnambulism does not work that way. Maybe if you sleep walked washing the dishes it would be as tedious as doing it while awake. Maybe your sleep quality would be less and so on, but conceptually it seems plausible.
Really, I probably just wanted an excuse to use the word somnambulism.
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A thought experiment occurs to me. What if we invented a way to program people to somnabulate (sleep walk) certain household chores, but still gain all the benefits of sleep. Would this be just a gain with no downside, or would our sleeping selves be suffering under the drudgery of those chores?
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I mean to me the key question is do you mean "have a broad understanding" or "have any understanding". I'd say a machine can have a very very narrow understanding of key points of chess (or arithmetic etc.), but not a broader one yet. I assume the broader weaves together the narrow.
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I want a counterfactual machine so that experimental science becomes cheap and easy, but probably experience shows it probably just generates unreliable hallucinations rather than veridical counterfactuals...
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Probably a side effect of what can pass for a brief in law.
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There is a concept/possibility in General Relativity that two distant objects will get further and further apart due to the expansion of space at a rate faster than the speed of light in which case light from events at object 1 past a certain point will never reach object 2.
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The light cone is defined by a point at here and now and then your future light cone (representing 3D space as a plane or line) spreads out at the speed of light (in your frame of reference), so 1 second later it is everything 1 light second away from you and so on. Googled a typical picture.
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I meant the "relativity of simultaneity" but I guess that is the definition of simultaneity in relativity and so is the simultaneity of relativity.😜
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But that seems like the kind of insight this use of phrases is supposed to capture. I don't claim the distinction holds up to close scrutiny or anything, but I think its slightly different than what you suggest.
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So stuff outside my future light cone is not what "may happen" but "has already happened, but I have yet to learn about", at least for some observer who is whizzing past me at some speed very close to c in the correct direction.
Although what may happen is I learn about what happened elsewhere.🤷♂️
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Technically anything outside my light cones, could end up in my past or my future depending on frame of reference etc. whereas everything in my future light cone is definitively the future (baring the existence of some phenomenon/new physics that negates the simultaneity of relativity).
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I say "Brie-Annie" I have no clue how close to proper pronunciation (in which regional dialect) that is appropriate, but it seems to work out when I order it.
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All the accounts I have read seem very similar on key points, I take it is a press release (from CPD or from a wire service like AP?) edited lightly by the relevant particular reporter/news team.
Perhaps less obfuscating reporting will come in as things develop?
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All the stories I have read continue the trend of "the only person who discharged a firearm was a CPD officer" but not admitting that makes it the source of the gunshot injury. I guess we can't rule out that Rivera shot herself from that description.
Source: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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This story does not mention what other stories do that the vehicle (ambulance?) Rivera was being transported in caught fire so they had to transfer her to another vehicle.
To suffer one horrific accident may be considered unfortunate, but two and it begins to look like carelessness.
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Now, I'm looking forward to the day humanity communicates with cheese.
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This was as the pattern with Muslim ban 1.0, the 1st EO was struck down, so the 2nd version made it looser and then the 3rd added some non-Muslim countries.
We all role those 3 orders together though because we know they are all the Muslim ban and so likewise with this new ban is the Muslim ban.
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Technically one might say this is the 4th time as he had to pass three different versions of the Muslim ban (3 similar but different executive orders) before one stuck.
I don't think (?) the 2nd and 3rd versions got as much pushback as the 1st.
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An application of Babbage's principle:
When you discover a defect in a means to some ends ask:
"Whether that which is a defect as regards the object in view may not become a source of advantage in some totally different subject."
Or as modern parlance would put it "Let's make that bug a feature!"
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The International Space Station.
If that doesn't count then someone in a space ship that is currently on the far side of the moon (surely being translunar is sufficient for outside of Earth).
These seem the most likely scenarios.
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I actually think the varying the chunking size in these sorts of situations actually reveals something about some of our assumptions and intuitions.
Similarly I think imagining Tuvix style situations with various kinds of body mergers (what if Tuvix was more a conjoined twin?) is suggestive.
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Is this your What's The Attraction answer for if Escape from Vault Disney ever does live-action Lilo & Stitch?
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I mean Trump's whole appeal as far as I can tell is the belief that he can achieve any policy objective essentially by fiat. This seems to me to be what "populism" consists in.
If he were the couch of a sports team his entire strategy would be to yell "Stop losing! Win harder!" at his players.
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The Trump administration would be hilarious for the 99 times in a hundred they fall ceremoniously on their face doing nothing, if not for the 1 time in 100 when they still fall over but manage to cause massive damage on the way down.
Also, they just sort of lower the tone in an unfunny way.
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I mean the name Body Mold machine implies it can remake bodies in basically any way. Skimming a plot summary this seems to be the gist of it, apparently its effects wear off after a day. This has at least some non-problematic applications.🤷♂️
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"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!" from the play 1776, spoken by John Adams.
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Can I just watch my Blu-Ray instead?
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This article fails to point out and seems at times to engage in the conflation of two very different lab leak theories, the gain of function leak theory and the Chinese bioweapon leak theory. But the evidence and plausibility of those two are very different and should not be treated as the same.
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Back all those years ago when he said he wanted to ban Muslims until "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on", I understood that to mean until he knew what was going on and so that meant banning them forever, since it seems unlikely he will ever know anything...
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Wait Clarence Darrow looks nothing like Spencer Tracy?
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I find it interesting that some English speakers will count a syllable with a diphthong as two syllables (and a a triphthong as 3 etc.), whereas to me its obviously one syllable.
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Leader/counselor of a troop of Star Fleet Junior Explorers, a Scout-like organization that gets children involved in exploration and science in pro-social way. Especially popular among the children on Galaxy class ships because it helps distract from the justified fear of horrific death.
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I found most joysticks would break after a couple of months of use on my commodore. But there were one or two that kept on truck longer, not as I recall ones like this though, but they may have been knock offs.
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Pedantic note "me, I" is not a double subject, because "me" is the accusative, so it's an object. Which to me means it is always implying some other phrase of which the "me" is the object, such as "if you ask me".
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Searching I found a swing instrumental piece that has the title "But me, I love you" which to me feels like a pretty standard and informal construction.
It does imply a contrast and I suppose having an accusative and then nominative spontaneously without even implied contrast is weird?
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"I'm thinking of seeing XXX. Do YOU think XXX is an entertaining movie?"
"Me? I did not care for it, but it does entertain a lot of people, I expect you'll enjoy it."
"Me?" sounds like a reference to some longer phrase and so is very informal. Saying the whole phrase is formal to me.
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I think in some contexts "Me?" in English is very common and informal.
If someone is asks a question and the other person takes a few seconds, they might say:
"Me? Well, I..."
Here the "Me?" is just short for "Oh, you were asking me?"
Or if you are differentiating personal from general opinion.
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Also that is clearly an extension of techniques and apparatus we already have, ctrl+f, indices, abstracts, tables of content, encyclopedias etc.
Do some people do without any such elaborations in preference to confronting the text whole and pure?
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Palpatine is used in the original novelization of Star Wars (A New Hope) as the name of the man who became emperor.
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There's an ambiguity in nasty. Do you mean hard to parse because needlessly baroque or do you mean simple and unnuanced. I'd say from my limited experience Aristotle's grammar is pretty easy to parse, because its simple. It may well be bad at nuance.
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Apparently, The Human Condition, 2nd edition, p122
Here's a discussion of the same passages with citations:
philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/86...
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Which Pope was accused of piracy?
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The epistemic withdrawal of divine presence.