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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

5. Absolut democracy is available at the liquor store in various flavors, but has negarive long-term health effects. I'd be happy with a sane system of taxation supporting a coherent budget.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

What a nice question. There won't be a simple answer, but if the model=actor due to survival pressures theory stands, it must be clearly testable. I would go about answering that question as follows, identify the smartest creatures, whose cognition is most alien to ours, whose behavior suggests they have a strong real-time sense of self that extends into it immediate processing, regardless of immediate action, or immediate action dependent on immediate state that is not easily explained as normally detectable or processed lower order state. Humans obviously. Then the octopus, a true alien cognition. it has an extremely curious and creative mind, and can behave quite differently in even slightly different situations, as well as coherently is situations that ought to be well out of its nich…

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

This is actually a great representation of what is good and what is insidious about LLM assisted writing. The practice of writing can serve the purpose of conveying an idea or information to the readers, but it can also be an invaluable tool for the writer to process, digest, and internalize a message. The act of wordsmithing, and shaping the idea from its raw rambling form into a coherent narrative, is intellectual metabolism. A good writer will both distill the ideas, present them in such a way that will be pleasurable to their readers, and also bring the reader along the way so they can learn as well, and feel like an active participant. The LLM tend to produce prose that defeats the purpose for the writer, takes the joy out for the reader, and ultimately does nothing for anyone but ta…

People are worried about America's solvency

Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradictions so it's going to require a whole lot of glue and squinting to say that there is any coherence to any US political party... The person you're responding to has it correct, though, that there was an important cultural shift around Johnson and Nixon and the Southern Strategy and all that... not that these cultural politics could ever touch the materialist facts of capital.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

That's fine, maybe they don't want casual users like you to be part of their community. There is a reason to prefer group coherence over availability. Availability doesn't actually help the group for most online communities, it's actively a hinderance.