“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Confirmation bias isn't "clarity", Les. It's just as Empedocles says, "With earth, we see earth. With water, we see water. With ether, we see the divine ether. With fire, we see the destructive fire."
What's the idea here? It is simple. You perceive the like through the like. Whatever already exists inside you is what you recognize outside of you. If the rough and the low dominates within you, you will readily recognize the rough and the low around you and it will look true to you because it resonates with what you already are. If you have cultivated the [music] smooth, the higher part of yourself, that's what you will recognize more easily. Truth, in other words, isn't hidden somewhere far away and out of reach. It is right in front of us, exactly like the lie is. The question isn't where it is located. It is what you are looking at with. If truth is the unconcealed, that implies something important that something by definition is concealed. But we don't need any conspiracy theory to see this because Heraclitus already said it. He says, "nature loves to hide".
What do you see inside a meditation closet? Nothing. It's the opposite of searching for you car keys under a street lamp, and not where you lost them.
Buddhism is the "lie" you have chosen to remain comfortable and stop having to think for yourself. It holds you in place, rather than advancing towards aletheia (truth).
My problem with it is that it ignores the virtues in and of irrationality... of schizoid behaviour. Of suddenly breaking and changing patterns or re-ordering/ re-combining categories.
Definition: A Greek aphorism meaning "nothing in excess" or "all things in moderation."
Concept: It is an ethical and philosophical guide for living a balanced life, popularized by Aristotle's virtue ethics (where virtue is the sweet spot between deficiency and excess).
Nature: A philosophical guideline for personal conduct and wisdom.
❌ The Middle Ground Fallacy (Argumentum ad Temperantiam)
Definition: A logical fallacy asserting that the truth must lie exactly halfway between two competing positions.
Concept: It wrongly assumes that both extremes are equally incorrect and that the compromise is automatically right (e.g., if one person says 2+2=4 and another says 2+2=6, the fallacy claims 2+2=5).
Nature: An error in logic and argumentation.
⚖️ The Key Difference
Meden agan advises moderation in actions and emotions to achieve a good life.
The middle ground fallacy incorrectly assumes a compromise between two statements makes a factually true argument.
Always the same... but often hidden from the furr-less monkey's sight. Objective / universal vs Subjective / localized. We're all dead in the end, but today I'll live life to the fullest. ;)
Objectivists are mostly stubborn individualistic cold fishes who don't care what others think of them. And today Les is a virtue signaling slave to the group
Core Attributes Objectivity: Real truth remains true regardless of personal feelings or cultural opinions. Permanence: True facts do not change over time. Bipolarity: Propositions carry two main truth values, being either true or false
Like I was pointing -- why and what understanding I may seek of you -- knowing some alphabet, so you'd be able to speak some meaningful words made of its letters...
well, without much success. My deficience as a teacher, must be the reason.
Sun Tzu - know thy enemy. know thyself. know the difference. like only recognizes like. and per Lem, some things are unknowable (Solaris).
Nietzsche, "Will to Power" 481 (1883-1888)
Against positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself": perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing.
"Everything is subjective," you say; but even this is interpretation. The "subject" is not something given, it is something added and invented and projected behind what there is.--Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings. --"Perspectivism."
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm.
482 (1886-1887)
We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, e.g., the word "I," the word "do," the word "suffer":--these are perhaps the horizon of our knowledge, but not "truths."
483 (1885)
Through thought the ego is posited; but hitherto one believed as ordinary people do, that in "I think" there was something of immediate certainty, and that this "I" was the given cause of thought, from which by analogy we understood all other causal relationships. However habitual and indispensable this fiction may have become by now--that in itself proves nothing against its imaginary origin: a belief can be a condition of life and nonetheless be false.
//Against positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself":
Yawn Just yet one pretendent to fall a brick at own head...
//Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
So? When I do write a program -- it doesn't matter??? Because it "do not exist"? And even if that privides some result (calculating formula, drawing picture, 3d-printing some object) -- but that is not a fact??? Even though I can check how that program goes step by step. How so?
Who do you think funded the freedom fighters, the Azov's, etc?
The modern secret intelligence partnership between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Ukrainian intelligence began in 2014 following the Euromaidan revolution and Russia's annexation of Crimea. Over more than a decade, this collaboration evolved from a cautious training arrangement into a massive network of secret operational facilities and real-time wartime intelligence-sharing.
Origins and Early Cold War Context
Late 1940s–1950s: The CIA launched early covert programs, such as Project AERODYNAMIC, to provide funding and support to anti-Soviet Ukrainian insurgent networks (including the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) to gather intelligence and run resistance operations behind the Iron Curtain.
🏗️ Forging the Modern Partnership (2014–2021)
February 2014: After Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled during the Maidan revolution, the new leadership appointed Valentyn Nalyvaichenko as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Nalyvaichenko immediately contacted the CIA station chief and MI6 to request a partnership to help rebuild the country's compromised intelligence infrastructure.
Summer 2014: Following the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Ukraine's newly created "Fifth Directorate" provided critical phone intercepts proving Russian-backed separatist involvement within hours. Impressed, the CIA committed secure communications gear and specialized training.
2016: The CIA began a major upgrade of the alliance. They funded and helped establish 12 secret forward-operating spy bases along the Russian border to intercept Russian military communications. The CIA also began training Unit 2245, an elite Ukrainian commando force that captured Russian electronic warfare systems and drone tech.
Operation Goldfish (Late 2010s): The CIA initiated an advanced program training Ukrainian officers to operate in deep cover and act as Russians in third countries to target Kremlin networks.
2016–2020: The partnership continued under the Obama and Trump administrations. Ukrainian intelligence routinely supplied the U.S. with highly classified data regarding Russian military weapon designs, electronic warfare systems, and cyber warfare tactics.
Having to abandon your reference frame and adopt theirs. Like with your boss, or with a customer to complete the sale. Yes, there's a benefit in pleasing the boss or completing the sale. But what if your boss or customer is an idiot? It's demeaning (literally).
The Ego is a fiction. An "I" posited as interpreter. Just as an interpreter for the developed "program" (the programmer's ego) used to verify/ validate it's proper functioning.
You have many competing psychological drives. Which one (sex, hunger, thirst, etc) do you pursue, and in what order?
The program needs an "agent".
A program is a set of rigid, step-by-step instructions that tells a computer how to do a specific task. An agent is a more advanced software system that can sense its environment, make its own choices, and take actions on its own to reach a specific goal.
Core Differences
Control: Programs follow exact code paths written by a human. Agents are given a goal and decide the steps to get there themselves.
Flexibility: Programs break or stop when faced with unexpected inputs. Agents adapt, learn, and handle open-ended or messy real-world data.
Operation: Programs run only when triggered to do specific functions. Agents run continuously, observing changes and taking initiative on their own
Organs within bodies. Multiplicities contained within a singularity. Each one running a different program. One organ controlling the overall bodies movement. The Agent.
In his 1964 philosophical work Summa Technologiae, Polish author and futurologist Stanisław Lem defines technologies as the systemic means to achieve collectively determined or emergent goals. He views technology not merely as a set of tools, but as an extension of natural evolutionary processes aimed at mastering or adapting to the environment.Core Concepts of Technology in Lem's WorkExtension of Evolution: Technology acts as an artificial continuation of biological homeostasis, allowing living systems to bypass natural physical limitations and environmental pressures.Goal-Directed Action: Technology encompasses methods shaped by the current state of knowledge and social capability to produce intended—and unintended—outcomes.Catching Up and Outrunning Nature: Lem framed technological progression as a trajectory where humanity moves from imitating biological systems to engineering entirely new realities and synthetic evolution.Major Technological Categories Defined by LemPhantomatics: The creation of complete, multi-sensory virtual realities indistinguishable from physical reality.Intelectronics: The engineering and amplification of intelligence, including artificial intelligence and human-machine cognitive symbiosis.Cerebromatics: The direct technological manipulation of human thoughts, memory, and psychological traits.Cosmogenic Engineering: The large-scale creation or manipulation of worlds, systems, and cosmic environments
With the solution to all scifi Utopias/Dystopias. Bartleby's "I would prefer NOT to...." A Deleuzian schizoid detachment, line of flight, and re-attachment.
In WWII we cooperated with USSR against race-based NAZI fascists/ capitalists. War ended. We got back to fighting each other. The cooperation is always short-term. It never resolves differences. They remained communists, and us, capitalists. The point is, today Russians are Capitalists and Ukrainians are capitalists and we are capitalists. What are we fighting? Access to markets? Armed Services compatibility/ inter-operability (weapons sales)?
It requires energy and movement of logos to arrive at a lethe ia. I'm VERY lethe-argic.
I can only myelinate just so many neural pathways. Too bad I can't just run a constant BITE (built in test equipment) routine to exercise and maintain myelination patterns. :(
Who among other said "Certain things not well-understood by us... but not because our mind deficient. But just because that things do not enter into that domain, which our mind giverns." ;-)
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Sounds like the American South and Midwest with all the Empire Christianity Mega Churches dotting the landscape.
Sounds like your love of chop-houses like Ruth's Chris has gotten the better of you.
Been there once. On business. Dallas if I remember correctly.
Business. Yes, you tend to go to more chop houses than churches when you're on a business trip in MacAmerica.
It's interesting you mention MacAmerica and chop houses...telling morel about you than me.
And I have not set foot in an Empire Christian church in ages. Don't miss the myth one bit.
Neither do I. But a meditation closet is a poor substitute.
It keeps you in your "comfort" MacAmerica zone.
You have NO clarity. As usual.
Yeah. He still cannot get it...
that you are pristine satanist. ;-p
Confirmation bias isn't "clarity", Les. It's just as Empedocles says, "With earth, we see earth. With water, we see water. With ether, we see the divine ether. With fire, we see the destructive fire."
What's the idea here? It is simple. You perceive the like through the like. Whatever already exists inside you is what you recognize outside of you. If the rough and the low dominates within you, you will readily recognize the rough and the low around you and it will look true to you because it resonates with what you already are. If you have cultivated the [music] smooth, the higher part of yourself, that's what you will recognize more easily. Truth, in other words, isn't hidden somewhere far away and out of reach. It is right in front of us, exactly like the lie is. The question isn't where it is located. It is what you are looking at with. If truth is the unconcealed, that implies something important that something by definition is concealed. But we don't need any conspiracy theory to see this because Heraclitus already said it. He says, "nature loves to hide".
What do you see inside a meditation closet? Nothing. It's the opposite of searching for you car keys under a street lamp, and not where you lost them.
Buddhism is the "lie" you have chosen to remain comfortable and stop having to think for yourself. It holds you in place, rather than advancing towards aletheia (truth).
...from "thinking".
...trapped in the ever emergent "divine feminine" of "attachment" and forgoing the ever transcendant "divine masculine" of detachment/ objectivity.
You were once an "objectivist". You've become a "subjectivist".
One pole isn't "truer" than the other. The key is to switch "back and forth" to find the Center/ middle. Meden agan!
...because the "noble lies" that keep you comfortable and frozen in your thinking (ideology) lie at the polemical poles, and NOT in the center.
:P
The truth isn't in the static picture... it's in the motion.
The "back and forth"... the "dialectic".
Like "consciousness" itself. Interacting brainwaves.
I have truth bias. Something that is alien to MAGAs. As well a scorned.
You have a bias of questioning everything? Who knew?
You seem to me to be unquestioningly aligned with absurd MSM opinions
//I have truth bias.
Yeah. As true satanist you have bias *against* truth. ;-p
Thanky-thanky for confirming it.
Naaah...
Truth is always the same.
Like Damocles sword. Like that brick ready to fall on your head.
Process? Is furr-less monkeys... running round and round, back and forrh. From that truth. ;-p
//Confirmation bias isn't "clarity", Les
You still think that he dunno that... needs you to enlight him?
Naaah... he's like that Dracula — "dead, and happy of it".
Happy being DEMN.Happy being satanist.Happy being graceless scum. ((((
I know. That is anti-intuitive. Hard to imagine.
But, that is the fact.
Yawn.
Not frozen.
He is pretty active, in his satanic pursuits...
And.
Middle-ground fallacy.
Study it, for god's sake.
And.
"Objectivism"... is subjective anyway.
You've studied Ayn Rand?
My problem with it is that it ignores the virtues in and of irrationality... of schizoid behaviour. Of suddenly breaking and changing patterns or re-ordering/ re-combining categories.
is meden agan the middle ground fallacy?
No, meden agan is not the middle ground fallacy.
🏛️ Meden Agan (The Golden Mean)
Definition: A Greek aphorism meaning "nothing in excess" or "all things in moderation."
Concept: It is an ethical and philosophical guide for living a balanced life, popularized by Aristotle's virtue ethics (where virtue is the sweet spot between deficiency and excess).
Nature: A philosophical guideline for personal conduct and wisdom.
❌ The Middle Ground Fallacy (Argumentum ad Temperantiam)
Definition: A logical fallacy asserting that the truth must lie exactly halfway between two competing positions.
Concept: It wrongly assumes that both extremes are equally incorrect and that the compromise is automatically right (e.g., if one person says 2+2=4 and another says 2+2=6, the fallacy claims 2+2=5).
Nature: An error in logic and argumentation.
⚖️ The Key Difference
Meden agan advises moderation in actions and emotions to achieve a good life.
The middle ground fallacy incorrectly assumes a compromise between two statements makes a factually true argument.
Always the same... but often hidden from the furr-less monkey's sight. Objective / universal vs Subjective / localized. We're all dead in the end, but today I'll live life to the fullest. ;)
vs. Lessing's son.
How absurd!
I'm not trying to fix him, Q, just understand him.
He was once an "Objectivist (altruism is evil) and now a Buddhist (altruism is everything). He's flipped poles.
What flipped him? Some bad experience, obviously.
Objectivists are mostly stubborn individualistic cold fishes who don't care what others think of them. And today Les is a virtue signaling slave to the group
What was once masculine detachment has become feminine attachment.
//I'm not trying to fix him, Q, just understand him.
What for?
I tryed to explain(Lem's wisdom), but I see no success, that understanding... defined through goal.
//What flipped him? Some bad experience, obviously.
Benefits.
Yawn.
Core Attributes
Objectivity: Real truth remains true regardless of personal feelings or cultural opinions.
Permanence: True facts do not change over time.
Bipolarity: Propositions carry two main truth values, being either true or false
Well.
You (in a sense modern mathematicians do, e.g. Lobachevski's geometry) can build some other Theory of Truth
Not based on stated above premices.
But, I do not see it'll be meaningfool %^P
Or. Who knows... what if you are genius. Able to overshadow all previous "truth babblers". ;-)
Like I was pointing -- why and what understanding I may seek of you -- knowing some alphabet, so you'd be able to speak some meaningful words made of its letters...
well, without much success. My deficience as a teacher, must be the reason.
//My problem with it is that it ignores the virtues in and of irrationality... of schizoid behaviour.
I... use dictionary definition.
Not named one. to Rand. Or anyone...
That's my ontology. ;-)
Meden agan advises moderation in actions and emotions to achieve a good life.
The middle ground fallacy incorrectly assumes a compromise between two statements makes a factually true argument.
Acta, non verba
But, while you only talking -- you cannot be moderate... only compromising.
Cause speaking, texts -- they are... syntactic
Well, in rethoric, you can use your voice -- to add some additional meaning. To achieve pointed involvment if listener(s)
But not in text
Well that's the problem with your ontology. It lacks nuance. Dictionary definitions are sh*t.
>Objectivism
Do you believe in alchemy... not the chemical, but the social variety? George Soros, "The Alchemy of Finance".
How did the CIA enable the Maidan Revolution? Alchemy.
""Ayn Rand (1905-1982). Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand witnessed the Bolshevik revolution""
Take it at face value.
1917 - 1905? 12-13 years old. Girl
How much "witnessing" is that???
Well.
I double-checked.
""Ayn Rand left Russia in 1926""
Well. She was wise (or just have had alternatives), to flee before purg#s...
Sun Tzu - know thy enemy. know thyself. know the difference. like only recognizes like. and per Lem, some things are unknowable (Solaris).
Nietzsche, "Will to Power" 481 (1883-1888)
Against positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself": perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing.
"Everything is subjective," you say; but even this is interpretation. The "subject" is not something given, it is something added and invented and projected behind what there is.--Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings. --"Perspectivism."
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm.
482 (1886-1887)
We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, e.g., the word "I," the word "do," the word "suffer":--these are perhaps the horizon of our knowledge, but not "truths."
483 (1885)
Through thought the ego is posited; but hitherto one believed as ordinary people do, that in "I think" there was something of immediate certainty, and that this "I" was the given cause of thought, from which by analogy we understood all other causal relationships. However habitual and indispensable this fiction may have become by now--that in itself proves nothing against its imaginary origin: a belief can be a condition of life and nonetheless be false.
//How did the CIA enable the Maidan Revolution? Alchemy.
Of 2014 one?
Asking, because of suspicion that you already forgot (never knew?) about Orange Revolution on Maidan(same geographically) in 2004
And for sure... you do not know about all PREVIOUS "maidans"
As well as dissidents movment.
As well as fighter for freedom in ww2 times
And preceding em fighters for Independence of Ukraine
But of course -- "that all did CIA" -- missive Russian Poisonous Propaganda would like the most
Maybe. But at what cost? To your own will?
//To your own will?
???
//and per Lem, some things are unknowable (Solaris).
Not unknowable.As absolutely.
Just on the level of our current knowladge/worldview
//Against positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself":
Yawn
Just yet one pretendent to fall a brick at own head...
//Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
So? When I do write a program -- it doesn't matter??? Because it "do not exist"?
And even if that privides some result (calculating formula, drawing picture, 3d-printing some object) -- but that is not a fact???
Even though I can check how that program goes step by step.
How so?
Atlas Shrugged - Great book.
Who do you think funded the freedom fighters, the Azov's, etc?
The modern secret intelligence partnership between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Ukrainian intelligence began in 2014 following the Euromaidan revolution and Russia's annexation of Crimea. Over more than a decade, this collaboration evolved from a cautious training arrangement into a massive network of secret operational facilities and real-time wartime intelligence-sharing.
Origins and Early Cold War Context
Late 1940s–1950s: The CIA launched early covert programs, such as Project AERODYNAMIC, to provide funding and support to anti-Soviet Ukrainian insurgent networks (including the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) to gather intelligence and run resistance operations behind the Iron Curtain.
🏗️ Forging the Modern Partnership (2014–2021)
February 2014: After Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled during the Maidan revolution, the new leadership appointed Valentyn Nalyvaichenko as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Nalyvaichenko immediately contacted the CIA station chief and MI6 to request a partnership to help rebuild the country's compromised intelligence infrastructure.
Summer 2014: Following the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Ukraine's newly created "Fifth Directorate" provided critical phone intercepts proving Russian-backed separatist involvement within hours. Impressed, the CIA committed secure communications gear and specialized training.
2016: The CIA began a major upgrade of the alliance. They funded and helped establish 12 secret forward-operating spy bases along the Russian border to intercept Russian military communications. The CIA also began training Unit 2245, an elite Ukrainian commando force that captured Russian electronic warfare systems and drone tech.
Operation Goldfish (Late 2010s): The CIA initiated an advanced program training Ukrainian officers to operate in deep cover and act as Russians in third countries to target Kremlin networks.
2016–2020: The partnership continued under the Obama and Trump administrations. Ukrainian intelligence routinely supplied the U.S. with highly classified data regarding Russian military weapon designs, electronic warfare systems, and cyber warfare tactics.
Having to abandon your reference frame and adopt theirs. Like with your boss, or with a customer to complete the sale. Yes, there's a benefit in pleasing the boss or completing the sale. But what if your boss or customer is an idiot? It's demeaning (literally).
It's not the content of a sh*t test, so much as its' framing/ re-framing that matters.
Ukrainian separatists in the 30s/40s who cooperated with the Nazi's in WWII made great OSS/ CIA assets during the Cold War with the USSR.
The Ego is a fiction. An "I" posited as interpreter. Just as an interpreter for the developed "program" (the programmer's ego) used to verify/ validate it's proper functioning.
You have many competing psychological drives. Which one (sex, hunger, thirst, etc) do you pursue, and in what order?
The program needs an "agent".
A program is a set of rigid, step-by-step instructions that tells a computer how to do a specific task. An agent is a more advanced software system that can sense its environment, make its own choices, and take actions on its own to reach a specific goal.
Core Differences
Control: Programs follow exact code paths written by a human. Agents are given a goal and decide the steps to get there themselves.
Flexibility: Programs break or stop when faced with unexpected inputs. Agents adapt, learn, and handle open-ended or messy real-world data.
Operation: Programs run only when triggered to do specific functions. Agents run continuously, observing changes and taking initiative on their own
Organs within bodies. Multiplicities contained within a singularity. Each one running a different program. One organ controlling the overall bodies movement. The Agent.
The Systems ontology?
//But what if your boss or customer is an idiot? It's demeaning (literally).
Well... what's makes em survive? Succeed?
Yeah. Nobody like em... changes.
But they -- still do happen.
That's why we developing techs -- as try to yoke changes. To make em happen OUR way.
But for that -- we need to became smarter. And that is -- also means changes.
Most painful, maybe. Because -- conscious...
//You have many competing psychological drives. Which one (sex, hunger, thirst, etc) do you pursue, and in what order?
So? When I follow Lem's... thoughts?
What drive is it?
Some hunger? Or thirst?
Sex drive, maybe? ;-p
//The program needs an "agent".
Yeah.
And oak tree need a seed. To sprout.
But how much it ontologically important when you look and feel and discuss... whereabouts around hundred years oak tree???
In his 1964 philosophical work Summa Technologiae, Polish author and futurologist Stanisław Lem defines technologies as the systemic means to achieve collectively determined or emergent goals. He views technology not merely as a set of tools, but as an extension of natural evolutionary processes aimed at mastering or adapting to the environment.Core Concepts of Technology in Lem's WorkExtension of Evolution: Technology acts as an artificial continuation of biological homeostasis, allowing living systems to bypass natural physical limitations and environmental pressures.Goal-Directed Action: Technology encompasses methods shaped by the current state of knowledge and social capability to produce intended—and unintended—outcomes.Catching Up and Outrunning Nature: Lem framed technological progression as a trajectory where humanity moves from imitating biological systems to engineering entirely new realities and synthetic evolution.Major Technological Categories Defined by LemPhantomatics: The creation of complete, multi-sensory virtual realities indistinguishable from physical reality.Intelectronics: The engineering and amplification of intelligence, including artificial intelligence and human-machine cognitive symbiosis.Cerebromatics: The direct technological manipulation of human thoughts, memory, and psychological traits.Cosmogenic Engineering: The large-scale creation or manipulation of worlds, systems, and cosmic environments
//Ukrainian separatists
Separatists?
From whom? %^O
And what do you have against CO-operation against common enemies?
mediocre sci-fi... yawn
With the solution to all scifi Utopias/Dystopias. Bartleby's "I would prefer NOT to...." A Deleuzian schizoid detachment, line of flight, and re-attachment.
Against communist USSR...
In WWII we cooperated with USSR against race-based NAZI fascists/ capitalists. War ended. We got back to fighting each other. The cooperation is always short-term. It never resolves differences. They remained communists, and us, capitalists. The point is, today Russians are Capitalists and Ukrainians are capitalists and we are capitalists. What are we fighting? Access to markets? Armed Services compatibility/ inter-operability (weapons sales)?
Yep, need to read it... and would help us communicate better if I did.
That smarts (hurts)!
It requires energy and movement of logos to arrive at a lethe ia. I'm VERY lethe-argic.
I can only myelinate just so many neural pathways. Too bad I can't just run a constant BITE (built in test equipment) routine to exercise and maintain myelination patterns. :(
btw - Are you watching Silo on AppleTV?
Position? And what if NOT succeeding?
Will to Power?
Master-y?
...or a week after the seed "sprouts". Is there really a difference 100 years later?
A catepillar is more a 2 stage rocket... and lives 2 lives.
it's the same
hundred years old oak tree... do produce a lot of seeds, isn't it? ;-)
Recieves promotion? ;-p
Hardly...
Is his name Peter? He's already reached his own level of incompetence.
Yep
...although some can reproduce asexually as well via sprouts from roots or stump..
;-p
Yawn. But not his boss, who promoted him. ;-p
I am unfixable.
So he must now reach mine, too?
Ehm.
Thank you. And sorry.
My understanding of English -- still lacking. )
To deshifer such a short remarks...
To understand inner jokes.
And other such stuff.
Sorry.
There was one Russian. ;-)
A great wiseman.
Who among other said "Certain things not well-understood by us... but not because our mind deficient.
But just because that things do not enter into that domain, which our mind giverns." ;-)
Or...
as programmers do say
"it is not a bug! that is a feature. dude" ;-p
first of all, sci-fi is just... funny to read. ;-p
Go read about John Carter.,. and try to find Distopia there ;-p
"All work and no play made Ja.,. well, Bartleby -- a dull boy" ;-p
ps Well. Naturally.
My ASW Sonar needs a better Feature Extractor.
Peter Gabriel, 'Turn up the Signal, Drown out the Noise!'
I'm not very good with E. European humour, either...
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