Clearsky

Unseen wrote:
They are so good and are becoming so popular that a band has to worry about being shown up by the opening act.

Ahh, marketing-departments… interesting as TW rises internationally. I suspect that Dany, and Pau have enough say, with Ale’s insight on the side. Their evolution should be interesting for a while, at least until they are…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Dany comes out to guest for Three Days Grace

I came to post this, and see you beat me to it. The sound’s not great, but the visual matters. At least this wasn’t recorded from the middle of the crowd.

Unseen wrote:
At any rate, my point is that there’s much more logic to remaining skeptical than to being pollyannical (which may be a neologism, but I think its meaning is obvious).

Yeah, I pretty much already knew those points. I won’t reiterate mine, while I’m hoping someone will find them interesting enough to delve into. Like really, i…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
See why I’m a skeptic?

A thousand years is a drop in the bucket, e.g. wrt the time frame of human evolution. Recent science and tech is updating so quickly, perhaps even at an exponential pace; is it even possible to imagine how far it could go in only the next hundred years? Not to mention AI, and possibly self-replicating AI m…[Read more]

I think the state of news dissemination and consumption is atrocious, even a danger to humanity at large. I think your and my views differ mostly on how to deal with it. I just avoid cynical and mocking commentaries as a rule, and prefer to focus on how to educate the consumer side of the supply and demand equation. I’m not saying I know how to do…[Read more]

I’m seeing Ukrainian military and pro-Ukrainian paramilitary actions on the rise. But instead of bickering over the timing or definition of “counter-offensive”, I ask:

Is Russia actually “winning”? Or to put it in your terms, have they “already won”?

Unseen wrote:
[…]We can see how dreadfully people can treat people, either personally or genocidally […]

A whole ‘nuther important issue for humanity, right? In the current context of AI, maybe we can use it to learn more about possible preventions and interventions. (I started to make suggestions here, but they’re largely off topic.)

Unseen wrote:
Question for you: If you can agree that love does not consist of acting in a loving way, so being empathetic does not consist of acting in an empathetic way. Can we also agree that a simulation of love is not love and can cause terrible blunders and so a simulation of empathy isn’t empathy and likewise would almost certainly r…

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jakelafort wrote:
What are words i never thought i would see or hear.

Haha LOL tan grande, I was thinking the same… while still feeling the love and truth.