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Birdwalk: { The word because most often begins a lie in English. The reason is simple: it collapses a complexly layered library of causes and involvements into a (usually) one-dimensional unit. A cause! The facile aspects of our personal ego-identification deliver a...

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It accomplishes this by a recursive process that forms a network of sophisticated, ever-more invasive representations that soon fully occupy the domain in which actual relationships would otherwise naturally take place.

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Intellligent ethical and moral frameworks cannot be explicitly recommended or employed in a way that pervades over the more natural inclinations of real people in actual relational exchanges. While ‘guidelines’ may serve, local circumstance, not...

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“If there were actual Prophets in history, we would have Bibles with admonitions like: Thou Shalt Not Build Machines (especially those which emit light).” — infraheard

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“You don’t just engineer a virus, in terms of an informational infection. What you do is plot a probability series of mutation paths and you release an array of candidate pathogens that have a high preference for the paths you desire to achieve and exceed...

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“If you’re a guy, and you’re not listening to and interacting with intelligent »women frequently… it’s like you’re getting the monomer of oxygen while pretending you’re still breathing or something. Wait, is there even a...