beetle-box we're all colorblind and we can never know it
which is the inescapable conclusion that colorblind mary (and common sense, really) brings us to
we're all platonic cave-dwellers looking at magritte paintings on the wall
What Mary doesn't know has fuck all to do with language. It isn't about knowing things expressible in language.
Have you read Jackson's paper?
I think that Philosophy of mind gets a bad rap because people know just enough about it that they know a lot of things that aren't really on the table any more.
I mean, I took a grad class in philosophy of mind last year and I still haven't caught up to where the literature is in the present day. I'm caught up to the late 90s, but not to the last ten years. With the exception of Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument against higher level properties.
EDIT: But Kim's probably wrong, so that's not terribly helpful, though it was interesting.
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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one of my classmates that went through the gifted programme, as it was run in singapore, remarked after we left that it was in essence a classroom full of nerds being kept carefully unaware that they are nerds
Its pretty tough to hide that in the US. We do have places like Bronx Science or Thomas Jefferson in NoVa that are bonkers advanced in terms of facilities. Maybe you could pull it off there.
those are waaaaay more dedicated than ours was, i think it goes too far in the direction of specialization. i think the feeling that being able to compete in some way with classmates who can authentically claim to represent their country at whatever fades once you reach that level of isolation. gifted ed, as a program for merely rather intelligent non-prodigies, probably benefits from having the writers and the scientists together in the same classroom
But seriously, if this was your takeaway then you did some seriously silly philosophy of mind.
later wittgenstein or i feed
hilary putnam can be pretty cool i guess
and i guess i enjoyed donald davidson's stuff
Searle is good too. He's wrong about nearly everything, but he's good.
He is probably one of the greatest assets to philosophy of mind and language in the 20th century just because he has been wrong. He keeps being inventively wrong, and forcing people to improve their thinking.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
With the exception of Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument against higher level properties.
EDIT: But Kim's probably wrong, so that's not terribly helpful, though it was interesting.
You know, I've read Kim's paper, but every time his name comes up I can't help but think he sounds like a jedi.
OH MY GOD YOU ARE RIGHT.
I WILL NOW THINK THIS EVERY TIME
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have had approx 45 min of work to do for the past, oh, 6 days or so
my boss is out of town all this week and I keep scheduling time to do it, and then just moving the appointment on my calendar to a different chunk of time
*reads forums, practices python*
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
it looks so real, i can't get over what a brainfuck it is every time
It almost makes me want to throw up.
But laugh
I want to vomit-laugh
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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beetle-box we're all colorblind and we can never know it
which is the inescapable conclusion that colorblind mary (and common sense, really) brings us to
we're all platonic cave-dwellers looking at magritte paintings on the wall
What Mary doesn't know has fuck all to do with language. It isn't about knowing things expressible in language.
Have you read Jackson's paper?
I think that Philosophy of mind gets a bad rap because people know just enough about it that they know a lot of things that aren't really on the table any more.
I mean, I took a grad class in philosophy of mind last year and I still haven't caught up to where the literature is in the present day. I'm caught up to the late 90s, but not to the last ten years. With the exception of Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument against higher level properties.
EDIT: But Kim's probably wrong, so that's not terribly helpful, though it was interesting.
adding a mod to a PM means they can see it, right?
do they get notified when they get added, or do you have to respond in some way?
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Huh. That thing last year, the kid who went to jail for making dumb terrorist jokes on Facebook? That's still not resolved and he might be going to big boy prison for 10 years.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Parents always worry about the funniest shit. Like, I think my dad finally realized he could relax this past weekend when I was visiting home. He walked into the living room and heard me on speakerphone with a customer service rep at Expedia, parlaying a mandatory schedule change for a connecting flight into a complete ticket rescheduling without paying the $200 fee. He just stood there watching, not saying a word until I hung up the phone. I could tell he was trying so hard not to blurt out advice before I tried each bureaucracy navigation maneuver.
It was totally mundane and I've clearly dealt with way more pressing shit, but I guess as a parent you never quite shake the feeling that you gotta guide your kid though every little thing until you see for yourself that they are on top of it.
He didn't even ask me if I filed my taxes yet! (I didn't.)
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George R.R. Martin admits that he is concerned about D.B. Weiss' plans to wrap GoT up by Season 8.
I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me. The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, and A Dance With Dragons. A Dance With Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way the did [with Swords]. Now, Feast and Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.
Spartacus went back and told a prequel season. That’s also an option. We have prequel. We have the Dunk and Egg novellas, which take place a hundred years before. And I’ve just published The Princess and the Queen, which takes place two hundred years before. So there’s lots of Westeros material out there, if we want to keep doing Westeros projects, but not necessarily that. But, you know, I realize—I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.
i'm reading the blog of an acquaintance - also singapore gifted ed, albeit junior - who is pursuing the high life globetrotting with the young, rich, and beautiful, and then writing elegantly about it.
while, I guess, I am unemployed and on a tenuous immigration status in singapore.
George R.R. Martin admits that he is concerned about D.B. Weiss' plans to wrap GoT up by Season 8.
I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me. The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, and A Dance With Dragons. A Dance With Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way the did [with Swords]. Now, Feast and Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.
Spartacus went back and told a prequel season. That’s also an option. We have prequel. We have the Dunk and Egg novellas, which take place a hundred years before. And I’ve just published The Princess and the Queen, which takes place two hundred years before. So there’s lots of Westeros material out there, if we want to keep doing Westeros projects, but not necessarily that. But, you know, I realize—I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.
The man will die of a heart attack before he finishes the story.
This is an actual worry of mine.
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George R.R. Martin admits that he is concerned about D.B. Weiss' plans to wrap GoT up by Season 8.
I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me. The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, and A Dance With Dragons. A Dance With Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way the did [with Swords]. Now, Feast and Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.
Spartacus went back and told a prequel season. That’s also an option. We have prequel. We have the Dunk and Egg novellas, which take place a hundred years before. And I’ve just published The Princess and the Queen, which takes place two hundred years before. So there’s lots of Westeros material out there, if we want to keep doing Westeros projects, but not necessarily that. But, you know, I realize—I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.
NO, MARTIN. NO. BAD. WE ARE NOT MAKING DANCE WITH DRAGONS INTO THREE SEASONS. THEY WILL CUT THAT SHIT DOWN TO A REASONABLE LENGTH SO WE DON'T ALL DIE OF BOREDOM.
Get on with the writing.
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beetle-box we're all colorblind and we can never know it
which is the inescapable conclusion that colorblind mary (and common sense, really) brings us to
we're all platonic cave-dwellers looking at magritte paintings on the wall
What Mary doesn't know has fuck all to do with language. It isn't about knowing things expressible in language.
Have you read Jackson's paper?
I think that Philosophy of mind gets a bad rap because people know just enough about it that they know a lot of things that aren't really on the table any more.
I mean, I took a grad class in philosophy of mind last year and I still haven't caught up to where the literature is in the present day. I'm caught up to the late 90s, but not to the last ten years. With the exception of Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument against higher level properties.
EDIT: But Kim's probably wrong, so that's not terribly helpful, though it was interesting.
its also a pretty big field to be fair
Philosophy in general kind of annoys me because it seems like not only is it this absurdly huge field, you're not allowed to know any of it until you've studied all the history.
The impression I get is like,
Yeah we're discussing current philosophy ideas. You can't touch 'em yet though, first you have to read all these other books. Also those books are dumb and wrong.
I dunno man, there's plenty of science stuff written for laymen, but I've never seen any current philosophy for laymen.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
George R.R. Martin admits that he is concerned about D.B. Weiss' plans to wrap GoT up by Season 8.
I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me. The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, and A Dance With Dragons. A Dance With Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way the did [with Swords]. Now, Feast and Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.
Spartacus went back and told a prequel season. That’s also an option. We have prequel. We have the Dunk and Egg novellas, which take place a hundred years before. And I’ve just published The Princess and the Queen, which takes place two hundred years before. So there’s lots of Westeros material out there, if we want to keep doing Westeros projects, but not necessarily that. But, you know, I realize—I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.
I'll be interested to see what they do, whether they let the series just fade out or if they change things to conclude it a sensible number of seasons.
Or if they just sack off the books and write about Small-y and Dwarf-y who become private investigators for some reason.
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No chance HBO would do a prequel season or anything like that for Game of Thrones. Too many actors to keep under contract and too many child actors that are already looking a bit big for their roles (Bran is gonna be carrying Hodor around in another season or two).
I do hope George can get the books out before the material hits the air, but I also hope he doesn't rush it and sacrifice quality just to meet a deadline.
George R.R. Martin admits that he is concerned about D.B. Weiss' plans to wrap GoT up by Season 8.
I’m hopeful that I can not let them catch up with me. The season that’s about to debut covers the second half of the third book. The third book [A Storm of Swords] was so long that it had to be split into two. But there are two more books beyond that, and A Dance With Dragons. A Dance With Dragons is itself a book that’s as big as A Storm of Swords. So there’s potentially three more seasons there, between Feast and Dance, if they split into two the way the did [with Swords]. Now, Feast and Dance take place simultaneously. So you can’t do Feast and then Dance the way I did. You can combine them and do it chronologically. And it’s my hope that they’ll do it that way and then, long before they catch up with me, I’ll have published The Winds of Winter, which’ll give me another couple years. It might be tight on the last book, A Dream of Spring, as they juggernaut forward.
Spartacus went back and told a prequel season. That’s also an option. We have prequel. We have the Dunk and Egg novellas, which take place a hundred years before. And I’ve just published The Princess and the Queen, which takes place two hundred years before. So there’s lots of Westeros material out there, if we want to keep doing Westeros projects, but not necessarily that. But, you know, I realize—I don’t want to sound too glib about this. This is a serious concern.
NO, MARTIN. NO. BAD. WE ARE NOT MAKING DANCE WITH DRAGONS INTO THREE SEASONS. THEY WILL CUT THAT SHIT DOWN TO A REASONABLE LENGTH SO WE DON'T ALL DIE OF BOREDOM.
Get on with the writing.
honestly books 4 and 5 shouldnt be more than 2 seasons, there's a lot of fat they can cut off
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What Mary doesn't know has fuck all to do with language. It isn't about knowing things expressible in language.
Have you read Jackson's paper?
I think that Philosophy of mind gets a bad rap because people know just enough about it that they know a lot of things that aren't really on the table any more.
I mean, I took a grad class in philosophy of mind last year and I still haven't caught up to where the literature is in the present day. I'm caught up to the late 90s, but not to the last ten years. With the exception of Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument against higher level properties.
EDIT: But Kim's probably wrong, so that's not terribly helpful, though it was interesting.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good work Icy
those are waaaaay more dedicated than ours was, i think it goes too far in the direction of specialization. i think the feeling that being able to compete in some way with classmates who can authentically claim to represent their country at whatever fades once you reach that level of isolation. gifted ed, as a program for merely rather intelligent non-prodigies, probably benefits from having the writers and the scientists together in the same classroom
it looks so real, i can't get over what a brainfuck it is every time
You know, I've read Kim's paper, but every time his name comes up I can't help but think he sounds like a jedi.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Searle is good too. He's wrong about nearly everything, but he's good.
He is probably one of the greatest assets to philosophy of mind and language in the 20th century just because he has been wrong. He keeps being inventively wrong, and forcing people to improve their thinking.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you sure it's not the other way around
agreeing with the jedi part, not the read the paper part
because hahaha. also this is the first time I've seen the name.
gedanken-techno
techno of the mind and not of the ears
should the be self-mantra of the first world
I came thiissss close to reversing it when I posted
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I should coordinate some failures to help me overcome my fear of failures
oh shit what if I set up my failures wrong?
maybe I should lower my expectations for what kind of failure I could have to help me overcome a fear of failure
failing at failing would just be too much
OH MY GOD YOU ARE RIGHT.
I WILL NOW THINK THIS EVERY TIME
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
my boss is out of town all this week and I keep scheduling time to do it, and then just moving the appointment on my calendar to a different chunk of time
*reads forums, practices python*
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/03/18/new-instrument-uses-tattoos-as-a-score/
It almost makes me want to throw up.
But laugh
I want to vomit-laugh
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
its also a pretty big field to be fair
do they get notified when they get added, or do you have to respond in some way?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It was totally mundane and I've clearly dealt with way more pressing shit, but I guess as a parent you never quite shake the feeling that you gotta guide your kid though every little thing until you see for yourself that they are on top of it.
He didn't even ask me if I filed my taxes yet! (I didn't.)
Needs more fedoras and ironic mustaches.
So it could become less hipster
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gedachtno
a+ would get mario theme tattooed on self
relatedly, I am mad that I was not accepted to be part of http://ineradicablestain.com/skin-faqs.html
while, I guess, I am unemployed and on a tenuous immigration status in singapore.
The man will die of a heart attack before he finishes the story.
This is an actual worry of mine.
NO, MARTIN. NO. BAD. WE ARE NOT MAKING DANCE WITH DRAGONS INTO THREE SEASONS. THEY WILL CUT THAT SHIT DOWN TO A REASONABLE LENGTH SO WE DON'T ALL DIE OF BOREDOM.
Get on with the writing.
Philosophy in general kind of annoys me because it seems like not only is it this absurdly huge field, you're not allowed to know any of it until you've studied all the history.
The impression I get is like,
Yeah we're discussing current philosophy ideas. You can't touch 'em yet though, first you have to read all these other books. Also those books are dumb and wrong.
I dunno man, there's plenty of science stuff written for laymen, but I've never seen any current philosophy for laymen.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the pm in question has disappeared from my inbox so I assume just adding tube was sufficient
I'll be interested to see what they do, whether they let the series just fade out or if they change things to conclude it a sensible number of seasons.
Or if they just sack off the books and write about Small-y and Dwarf-y who become private investigators for some reason.
I do hope George can get the books out before the material hits the air, but I also hope he doesn't rush it and sacrifice quality just to meet a deadline.
honestly books 4 and 5 shouldnt be more than 2 seasons, there's a lot of fat they can cut off