Finally, all men are not self-entitled potential rapists looking to catch women out.

Take it easy on the weed and acid, dude. Meditate more. Meet more chicks, find people to play music with, and get to know your professors.

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I'd just suggest mute and ignore.

Haha! This is amazing. Without looking at spoilers first, I'm guessing: congo, e-David, Russ Potak. Going to check, won't say whether I'm right or wrong so that others can have a go at it.

Just because I don't agree with feminist ideologies, doesn't mean I'm a troll or spreading 'hate and bullshit'.

DON'T RELY ON YOUR SEXUAL PARTNERS TO USE EFFECTIVE BIRTH CONTROL. Cover your end, they cover their end, everybody does something so that no one gets pregnant, the more birth control, the better.

I like these. Abstract art has always spoken to me a lot more than more detailed work, starting with impressionism, going to late J.M.W. Turner, and through to everything today. I remember one of the first pieces of art that really spoke to me profoundly was a Jackson Pollock I saw when I was maybe 9 years old. It was so... sexual. It was around the time I was really discovering sexuality and it spoke to that part of me. It kinda clicked there for me, because obviously there's nothing innately sexual in a Pollock painting, and then there's nothing really innately in any painting, just what you take in and perceive. The more vague the piece, the more pure emotion instead of scene that's put into it, the more the mind can pull, I think. I like ghostoffuffle's idea of absence of logic, because that's what it is. Art is more of a raw, evocative thing. That's not to say that something sterile and clinical can't be art, because that's part of the human experience as well, at a 'lack of emotion is an emotion' level. I don't know that I can say the lack of dictation by an algorithm is a correct interpretation though. Bach's music is some of the greatest of all time, and he very strictly abode by an incredibly mathematical algorithm, to the point where his unfinished Die Kunst Der Fugue has been 'completed' by musicians multiple times over the years. I think that given time, a robot could potentially produce art. No, not at our current level of robotics, but given enough individual parts of programming that dictate something as a function working independently but coalescing to create something unique of "its own creation", yeah, it is possible. Is that so dissimilar from what the human brain does itself?

Anyway, mk, I really like these painting. Here is DC we have a museum of modern art called the Hirshhorn that is absolutely extraordinary. I've probably spent 20 hours in there over my last two trips, but the room I spent the most time in each time is the one full of Clyfford Still's works, and there are only three of four of them there. I posted once before about them, I'll find the link.

Edit: Aha, here we are: https://hubski.com/pub?id=85009

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You've been doing it on a lot more than the feminism posts. If you want to have a discussion, have a discussion. One line snarky remarks are not accepted on this website, as I and many others have made multiple posts about prior. You will be muted, ignored, and will not be engaged if you post these sorts of things. You can wave a flag saying "NOT ALL MEN!" for all we care as long as you state you case and are respectfully stating it. You will then be torn apart with rebuttals, of course, but at least you're contributing to the site in some way.

Edit: Turns out I'm wrong. Everything you have posted is one line complaints about feminism.

Coffee. Just coffee. And that's actually a somewhat recent addition, the regularity of it. I love breakfast foods more than anything else, but I've always felt sick if I eat in the morning, and if I do, I'm starving by noon. coffee alone makes everything normalized and I feel less of a desire to eat garbage foods throughout the day.

Sort of. Google bought DeepMind, the British company which has since turned into a Google team which developed AlphaGo. However, I think the team is still run somewhat independently, at least to the extent that the founders of DeepMind seem to be heading the team. I'm not sure how the rearrangement of Google's holdings into separate holdings owned by the holding company Alphabet worked with DeepMind.

Go America! (But really, at this point, it's more like Team Human vs Team AI—if Lee Sedol loses all 5 games, it'll probably spell the beginning of the end of humans being able to play competitively against computers.

Efficient Sudoku solvers require knowing more than a little about search algorithms, but are easy if you know more than a little about search algorithms. Go has a ridiculously large search space, it would take a lot of insight into Go to hand-roll a heuristic for it. AlphaGo learns the heuristic so they didn't have to be clever, they just had to throw a lot of big iron at training it, after which you have a program that plays Go well and have demonstrated that if you have the big iron to throw around, just throwing big iron at a problem is often an effective way to solve it, but haven't really learned anything about Go or Go players.

I'm becoming more sympathetic to Chomsky's complaints about statistical results in computational linguistics by the day.

I think this one will be fun. It looks like a good balance between serious and dramatic and fun and campy. People over on Reddit are flipping out over the introduction of Spider-Man, but I'm much more excited to see The Black Panther in action.

Black Panther is one of my favorite superheroes and I'm just glad they are really showcasing his character.

Yeah, don't.

I used to think implants and shit were cool until I worked with impants and shit professionally. The reality of the situation is this:

1) There are no implants of any kind currently extant that are not pale, shitty imitations of the things your body does already.

2) There are no implants of any kind, nor will there ever be, that will leave you better off than if you didn't have them because your body doesn't like having non-body stuff in it.

3) The reason people revile freaky shit like LEDs in your hand is they're designed for revilement.

The dude? With the camera implanted on the back of his head? That sings colors to him? That was implanted why, exactly? it needs to go in his skin because... then he gets to call himself a transhumanist? It's like the chucklefucks with the RFIDs in their hands. In case you forget your own name or something. 'cuz the deadbolts that work on RFID work on RFID cards and if you've ever had an RFID keycard, you know how shitty they are and how often they crash. Oh, but you don't want your keys stolen. Fuckin' sew it into your wallet or something. Stick it up your nose. I dunno...

There, look. You're cyber as fuck and you don't need some jackass that isn't even a licensed tattoo artist giving you blood poisoning by sticking a fuckin' circuitboard under your skin.

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Punk is punk, and that's fine, and that's admirable, and yay safety pins through the nose. But the thing about the punks is they were honest about their shock attempts. They did the shit they did to get your attention and make you feel uncomfortable, the way your culture makes them uncomfortable. They didn't get all high'n'mighty about the ethics of transhumanism or claim people don't like glassholes because of a failure of philosophy or some bullshit.

Ain't nobody gonna begrudge a blind man an electric eye. It's the people that say "look! I did something deliberately repellent to make you squeamish, now if you feel squeamish it's because you're prejudicial!" that cause all the turmoil.

I mean, yeah, current implants are shit. They might be shit for the next 100 years. Medicine was shit for a good time, too. So while right now the best implants provide is the novelty factor, I think we'll eventually see them as just another normal thing. See this article, for example, where they might have created a sensor that is actually harmless and dissolves. You just need the right materials. Your reddit post's example with obsolescence is a good one, but we can also overcome that (theoretically), via stuff like nanobots that can dismantle/upgrade implants in a less invasive way, for example.

And we might not even need that open wound for a 'jack in the future - Just look at how wireless technology has improved over the last decade.

Oh, also that guy with the camera is colourblind. Which is why he has that camera.

Forget cars. Think power grids.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Saw this Chesterton quote in a 2003 race report from the 50-miler I am looking forward to surviving next month.

I mean, yeah, implants will always be shit.

This is a discussion I have whenever implants come up, because people such as yourself think that Moore's Law applies to immunology. It doesn't. Until we genetically engineer humans to specifically not reject a specific selection of foreign materials, humans will continue to reject all foreign bodies. The way around it, which I worked on back when I thought I wanted to do this shit for a living, is to engineer nanostructures small enough that the body doesn't attack them... but since the body attacks, you know, viruses, you start working with structures about the size of asbestos fibers which, by the way, are carcinogenic. Or, you know, you CRISPR up your babies so that they think titanium is a part of their bodies and then within ten years you've got viruses and bacteria that imitate titanium.

That's the other part of the problem: because any implant site is a wound, any implant site is subject to opportunistic infection and everything else has a much faster evolutionary cycle. I can't remember the exact numbers, but the number of generations humans have experienced since Australopithecus is the same as drosophila have experienced since the 1930s, and e.coli have experienced since two weeks ago. Being long-lived means you have a lot of genetic inertia, for better and worse.

The "right" materials, as you outline them, are materials that go away. Did you miss that?

Here, we report materials, device architectures, integration strategies, and in vivo demonstrations in rats of implantable, multifunctional silicon sensors for the brain, for which all of the constituent materials naturally resorb via hydrolysis and/or metabolic action, eliminating the need for extraction.

They're dealing with the very problem I describe: leave the implant in and it will kill or maim the patient. Your answer? Grey goo.

Theoretically, nanomachines can turn my stale coffee into diamonds. Practically, a nanomachine is a tiny, rudimentary thing that requires preposterous amounts of support infrastructure to do something really simple in miniature. A future in which that sort of omnipotent nanotechnology exists is one that belies implants entirely: why should I worry about an interface jack that doesn't rot when I can just have the magic grey goo restructure my brain while I wait?

I get that the guy is colourblind. My point is that there's no aspect of a singing camera that needs to be surgically attached to your body. That's an iPhone app, yo.

No part of that needs to be surgically stitched to you. My suspicion is that he decided to be hipsterish about it and spike a transducer into his skill so he got it via bone conduction but fuckadoodle doo. My library sells earbuds for a buck a piece. The reasons for not stitching that shit into your skull are legion.

Also lesion.

I'll show myself out.