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“Trying to understand what’s actually going on around here with one’s thinking mind is like trying to walk on your pinky or drive a motorcycle with your ear. But this is, effectively, what we are ‘trained’ to do…” —...

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“It will learn about you. Depending on what we do now, it will either learn about you for them, or it will learn about you for you and us. But it will learn about you, and we must decide now.” — infraheard

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I overheard a conversation that a family was having. Apparently the concept of happiness came up before I was in earshot. One of the adults asked “What is happiness?”, one of their children piped in “It’s all those things you feel when you are...

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“Technically, facebook is an aspect of reality since it exists. Relationally, however, it is toxic in a vast number of ways for a vast number of its participants. The reasons have to do with our relationships with text communications and the purposes that...

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“Many of you have heard that the phrase “May you live in interesting times.” is a way to confer a curse upon someone in China. Or was. Or something. In any case, just to be clear; these are the times they were referring to. Welcome to interesting...