Obligate Metaphor

Not only CAN they be true, in this case AFAICT, they ARE.

You're not wrong. HOWEVER, the fact that she wasn't first does not negate the fact that it is a MUCH better take than the previous dominant take, that it was a white guy that "invented" it over a decade after she was dead, and almost 50 years after she published Frank.

If Only is one thing, a wistful fiction..."Take our country back" "Be great like we used to be" is the magical thinking.

My friend, I think you've confused WHO uses "magical thinking" in re darkest timeline.

That's not wrong..but it leaves out we are model making prediction machines...out subjective brains can INHERENTLY view OTHER PERSPECTIVES. How do people not understand that our brains can MAKE other experiences than those which we have actually had. There are limits, yes, but the limit isn't ONE.

You could just say all observations are an exchange of energy. The self is semi-stable, semi-bound over-density. It's a fluid more than anything [if we must label it by analogy].

You can have MANY things [MUST have many things] that are "The Great American Novel." What you can't do without starting a fight is have "THE Great Novel of THE America," which is how some seem to read it. The GAN is exactly like The Truth. Not a thing, a modifier. Blame Plato/Forms nonsense.

Been looking and looking, and AFAICT, President has no actual role, or authority to put it into effect. The only thing he CAN do is state a position. Possibly could've fired Archivists till one did what he said. But needs senate confirmation. Fail. There's always a Manchin/Sinema somewhere.

Which is weird, cuz what Kevin said. I think it's cuz they think most xtians are mostly harmless, the harmful ones are mostly manageable. Muslims [they think] mostly harmful and mostly unmanageable. They've forgotten 1600+ years when xtians proved exactly how bloody and unmanageable they can be.

Don't know why they keep being surprised by the "unintuitive/not human thinking" thing. It happens EVERY DAMN TIME. Seriously, AFAIK, it has happened in every single field/realm since at LEAST Alpha Go.

Sorta. Often symbol/identity things will VERY often supersede fact-knowledge when they conflict, even if the person knows and agrees with the fact. e.g. many climate-deniers, if offered cash for correct answers, will correctly answer change fact questions. And still deny it. True of so many issues.

I have no problem with an a posteriori cause of the idea of god. And, like Plato's forms, it is purely abstract, occasionally useful perspective to imagine, and never actually exists.

Jethro Tull wrote that first. Well, not first first. Lots of folk have explored the terrain of believing causes the gods to become real...and that the death of the last believer kills them, too.

I guess new, cuz they looked at signals way down at code? I recall telling Z [mr. calories in=calories out] over a decade ago that it was a known fact that even identical twins...if one of them had EVER been even a bit overweight, that one had to, FOREVER, burn at least 400 calories extra every day.

nevertheless, mine was funnier. :)

Hat's are special. Maybe your guest didn't serve the needs of the hat. :)

Not wrong. However, if you see a library thing that says the earth is flat, it was written in the middle ages by a guy trying to figure out the universe. On the internet it was written in the middle of last night by a guy named "BirdsAren'tReal" selling Raw Water, cuz tap water turns men gay.

Very deeply connected to article read recently. Symbolic and fact thinking run in every human brain, but mostly don't cross/talk to each other, and conflict when do. Experiments are showing it. But humans have intuitively known it for all time. And used/abused it. Thus "God saved me." It was chemo.

Think cuz she never makes certain adjustments that are common...in the past it worked cuz the state has a certain consistency in behaviors [even changes there WERE more predictable flows than other places]. They might still be, but any sample can go sidewise/be an outlier.

AI could be, [and would be best at] replacing WORST human leeches, instead the human leeches own it and use it to replace the human humans.

I hesitate to say this, but DUDE! Mergers/corp consolidation/etc. have ALWAYS been the larval stage of AI. The whole POINT of them has been to enclose and consume the flesh, blood, and bone of those who/that which produced value, and give them just enough mush to keep hope/breeding alive.

They can be safely lumped as "same guy." Ginger, OTOH, is distinct and particular.

We have been drifting towards nothing for years, and last couple, if anything, it's random quirky stuff the other happened to mention sometime--the giving of such is "whatever day delivered between thanksgiving and new year." Recently received surprise lava lamp. I Love them. Don't know why.

Yes. And 100% other kinds of intelligence. I mean, human beings have a few kinds of intelligence in one body/brain. Aliens and us will share some kinds of intelligence, guaranteed. We live in same universe. Also probably different/unique ones...we live in different particular/local environments.

Unfortunately extremely fast particular/limited intelligence can be nearly as dangerous, and a lot of it is already almost everywhere. Still, what that says is somewhat comforting.

Many things want to say. Stick to one: Maybe not MATTER if we/aliens limited. Cuz about zero percent of current, and except AGI, most likely future problems exist/are caused by not being smart enough. OK, two: we've only been smart a little while. Could be a subtle selection we just can't see yet.

Perfect timing. It was just announced [or at least I saw for first time] ChatGPT is being released into the wild for ANYONE to use as their search engine. Y'know, HUMAN's get committed or jailed for hallucinating...and unloved/unfriended for "just making shit up."

Yea. But US, the entire right and some center treat all cultural, economic disagreements as war. ALL of it is poor/ city/lib/gov't caused. Real causes: Corp, finance, law. and the gov't-involved policies do help those groups are mostly right, rich, and Harvard/Yale/Elite grads. And I can prove it.

And non-urban people HATE city/libs for things like above, but also say they steal the economy and make life hard for them. ENTIRELY wrong. Without lib/dem policies, their lives would be twice as hard. If possible at all. I KNOW, I grew up there. [and studied and read books to become Woke Elitist.]

I understand [at least in u.s.] why it feels "imposed." It kinda is. BUT, say SSM. Peeps from where I grew up [rural] say it was "shoved down their throats." No. They're people. SSM allows them to BE people, and stops YOU from violating their humanity. [royal you, not you you.]