Comments on: Now you tell me where's this from http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:28:40 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Let's talk about power. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/#comment-148221 Let's talk about power. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:34:45 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91199#comment-148221 [...] of course ; yet nevertheless you can answer. Can't you ? As it turns out, your brain, much like your clucker / "smart"phone doesn't actually carry all that much of you about this world. It certainly carries something, that [...] [...] of course ; yet nevertheless you can answer. Can't you ? As it turns out, your brain, much like your clucker / "smart"phone doesn't actually carry all that much of you about this world. It certainly carries something, that [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/#comment-147577 Mircea Popescu Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:53:10 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91199#comment-147577 Mmmkay Mmmkay

]]> By: Aldus http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/#comment-147575 Aldus Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:58:22 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91199#comment-147575 I don't have access to processors, I have access to people far away. And I don't dream of justifying anything. That's a "we" you felt the need to include in just so you can later say you're not part of it. I'm not responsible for your feelings. Didn't you say there is no "we"? Then why do you keep projecting your mental approach onto my way of speaking? This is another flagrant contradiction, but we'll leave it at that. And by "we", I mean "I". You're not so good at turning a discussion about a topic (books & text) into a discussion about the dork who's making an argument. Actually, there was no discussion about the topic! It was all about the person who's not a human, but a thing. If I'm a thing, then I must be a mirror. I don't have access to processors, I have access to people far away. And I don't dream of justifying anything. That's a "we" you felt the need to include in just so you can later say you're not part of it. I'm not responsible for your feelings. Didn't you say there is no "we"? Then why do you keep projecting your mental approach onto my way of speaking? This is another flagrant contradiction, but we'll leave it at that. And by "we", I mean "I".

You're not so good at turning a discussion about a topic (books & text) into a discussion about the dork who's making an argument. Actually, there was no discussion about the topic! It was all about the person who's not a human, but a thing. If I'm a thing, then I must be a mirror.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/#comment-147571 Mircea Popescu Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:13:34 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91199#comment-147571 Stop being a fucking dork already. "By X I mean Y" no you fucking well don't, these things you dream up to justify your nonsense don't exist, and won't start to exist by chaining more of the nonsense together. It was faulty "reasoning" on the first pass, it'll stay the same on the n-th pass. That you go about with cock in your pockets thinking you have "access" to "processors" is a problem of your cluelenssness, not of the world outside. > I am not enslaved by my smart-phone. It's there cause it's more convenient I lulzed. Good enough, let's leave it at that. Stop being a fucking dork already. "By X I mean Y" no you fucking well don't, these things you dream up to justify your nonsense don't exist, and won't start to exist by chaining more of the nonsense together. It was faulty "reasoning" on the first pass, it'll stay the same on the n-th pass.

That you go about with cock in your pockets thinking you have "access" to "processors" is a problem of your cluelenssness, not of the world outside.

> I am not enslaved by my smart-phone. It's there cause it's more convenient

I lulzed. Good enough, let's leave it at that.

]]> By: Aldus http://trilema.com/2020/now-you-tell-me-wheres-this-from/#comment-147568 Aldus Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:49:17 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=91199#comment-147568 By "we" I mean the society. It's how the world goes, from a selected elite of initiates that have access to books, to the widespread of printed paper, to the digital text in our machines, to the micro-devices that falsely pretend to be computers but nevertheless manage to be smarter than their masters. I am not enslaved by my smart-phone. It's there cause it's more <em>convenient</em> when I want to chat with people abroad. But I don't use it for pseudo-gaming, pseudo-computing, etc; I'm not that bored. And I never had one until it was given to me as a present. I also never had a laptop; they're not computers either. But I digress. So yeah, text as a computer string is more powerful (in the vein of more <em>convenient</em> and accessible) than text as a symbol (printed bitmap). But this is the very reason why text as a computer string carries less meaning than text as a symbol. By "we" I mean the society. It's how the world goes, from a selected elite of initiates that have access to books, to the widespread of printed paper, to the digital text in our machines, to the micro-devices that falsely pretend to be computers but nevertheless manage to be smarter than their masters.

I am not enslaved by my smart-phone. It's there cause it's more convenient when I want to chat with people abroad. But I don't use it for pseudo-gaming, pseudo-computing, etc; I'm not that bored. And I never had one until it was given to me as a present. I also never had a laptop; they're not computers either. But I digress.

So yeah, text as a computer string is more powerful (in the vein of more convenient and accessible) than text as a symbol (printed bitmap). But this is the very reason why text as a computer string carries less meaning than text as a symbol.

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