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anarchy
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No war but class war?
Yes, generally it is useful to view struggles around the world as not democracy vs tyranny, or left vs right, or women against men, or whatever artificial division line is drawn by those who divide to
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life
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The future is here
Yesterday I met a friend of mine, after about 5 years gap. We talked about many things, life updates, where-have-you-been, what-did-you-see, etc. We talked about technology (we're sysadmins), work, exchanged
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anarchy
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Sound of one hand clapping...
...is the sound of a facepalm. That's how enlightenment works. That's when you wake up, and however tempting it might seem (it worked on you, has it not?) you can't just facepalm other people to make them
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anarchy
8y
How to get rid of gods
I'm re-reading The Black Company by Glen Cook. Quite awesome dark fantasy. Recommended. One quote just made me smile: But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How
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anarchy
8y
Post-scarcity
There are two sides to this coin. Usually coins have two sides, and in cases like pos-scarcity one side is quite visible, the other not so much. The visible side is "enough of everything for
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anarchy
9y
Function of money
It is probably obvious to most, but I had this thought recently - the primary function of money is limiting access to scarce resources. All resources are scarce by definition, to varying degree, although
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anarchy
9y
Family vs society
A quick though: why is family considered to be a basic building block of society? Family is fundamental to individual's life and wellbeing (unless you are a real lone wolf, gunslinger and a tragic hero),
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anarchy
9y
Unification
I was going to start with a slogan example illustrating a point, but I realized I need to make a disclaimer, because it came out quite offensive :) The example was similarity between "one nation under
macius
anarchy
9y
List of worries
Continuing briefly the previous post, there is another thing to add - have you noticed that people more often worry and are willing to talk about things that they can neither change not confirm? It is
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anarchy
9y
Consistency
It seems important. Consistency. Especially when it comes to one's worldview. Here's one short thing I laughed about recently - insignificant and I'm not that proud of picking it up, but hey. There is
macius
anarchy
9y
What the...
I'm sorry for the recent repost - multiple times - of that recent blog entry... I kept getting "Network error", and understanding that as "can't publish" I tried different browsers, etc, not realizing
macius
anarchy
9y
Redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution and redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution and redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution and redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution and redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution and redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Distribution vs redistribution
Inspiration: And then... There are two models of how we perceive the society should be structured. We are either equals, or we are not :) Please forgive oversimplification, but I'm just looking at a specific
macius
anarchy
9y
Only when...
Only when I became a parent I realized how much crap is being passed from generation to generation. Things that are taken as "normal" facts of life when seen from one perspective only - the way parents
macius
freedom
9y
AI, purpose, religion...
AI is not going to replace us. Call it a hunch, or whatever. It is far more likely that we will provide, on top of amazing computational ability we're about to have (Moore's Law is not going away), that
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