You know who created the Taliban and the Al Qaeda? Neo cons and neo liberals, the Reagan/Bush/Clinton admins. Who created ISIL? Bush 2 and Obama. Who created the armed wing of Hamas? Clinton and Sharon.
One of my favorite museums in the world is the Villa Giulia in Rome. It houses the National Etruscan Museum. It falls outside most quick tour routes, and it is a lovely, peaceful, elegant museum with a very rich collection.
See the pretty vases below, with various mythological scenes :) Recongize them?
"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
@mergy@philosophy “Books by Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman as well as Wollstonecraft, Austen, Woolf, Baldwin, Hurston and Orwell are worthy of introductory collegiate courses for students of all majors.”
Agreed they’re worth studying, but not all worth adopting. The author’s complaints are the result of millennia of Platonism and centuries of its fatal apotheosis in Kant and his successors.
#Philosophy - "What is the meaning of Life"" or purpose. Maybe their two different things, or they may mean the same thing. I'm interested in the idea that Meaning or Purpose are artifacts of living a life that allows one to contemplate such matters. Are both an emergent property of a life that involves a level of leisure.
Homeless or starving people, or someone in combat has more pressing concerns than life's meaning or purpose. Staying alive to wonder why later is the issue at hand.\
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Cool photos. You know, one question I’ve had every time I see this method theRomans had of putting large clay pots into concrete, I guess as a way of storing food (?) - there’s that famous ‘taverna’ at Pompei with these . . . I always wonder, how did they clean them out? Did any of them include a drain below with maybe a stopper? They seem very deep. Maybe too long for a human arm to reach in to clean out. Romans understood plumbing, so was there a drainpipe below?
Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.
@GQB Ya, you just have to put it in context. Do a great job of course, but don't let it lead you around by the nose. Remember to stop and smell the roses 🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹!