Tally sticks have more to do with the history of currency than gold does

Taxes are how currency gets its value. So if you plan to stop using taxed currencies, then sure.

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, after all.

They can’t be defeated with voting, but they can be aided by not voting.

But yes, I also thank the level designers for putting in accessible weak points.

I’m just goofin. It looks great!

That wrench is pretty realistic

Probably worth teasing this apart.

There are:

• Fascist political candidates

…which can be formally appointed or rejected by voting

• Fascist organized groups

…which may attempt to physical seize power regardless of political climate, if the physical conditions seem right, but have a much easier time if the political conditions are favorable too

• Fascist cultural concepts

…which proliferate regardless of political and physical conditions, and can really only be managed through social norms, which are themselves often reinforced at the ballot box

Just because voting only directly impacts the first problem doesn’t mean it has zero impact on the other two.

In fact, it’s really hard to win the cultural battle and cast fascism as a niche extremist philosophy if it keeps almost winning elections.

This is why the term “AI” sucks so much. Even “machine learning” is kind of misleading.

Large-scale statistical computing obviously has uses, especially for subjects that lend themselves well to statistical analysis of large and varied data sets, like astronomical observations.

Sticking all of the text on the internet into a blender and expecting the resulting statistical weights to produce some kind of oracle is… Well, exactly what you’d expect the tech cultists to pivot to after crypto fell apart, tbh, but still incredibly dumb.

Calling them both “AI” does a tremendous disservice to us all. But here we are, unable to escape the marketing.

I like the time he spent agonizing over the grammar for the BloodFeast one.

So you’d rather for them to have written a different article, with similar substance, but not [as thoroughly] related to their area of study?

As a philosopher, I’m interested in how modern culture influences representations of the past. And the way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums may reveal more about us than it says about her.