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New comment by Exoristos in "A rough guide for going back to the Moon"

Exoristos — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:08:34 +0000

Work is a good.

New comment by Exoristos in "Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)"

Exoristos — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:19:59 +0000

It's not much of a stretch to see this as certain powers punishing Facebook for not having actively suppressed the Trump campaign.

New comment by Exoristos in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

Exoristos — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:20:51 +0000

Everyone's parents "suck"--they're humans, they're learning, they have problems of their own they struggle with, etc. There are no purely good parents. I'm not excusing actually wretched family conditions, but have been noticing almost every young adult now deplores an unfair childhood--and I can't help but think we'd all be healthier if we could recognize that a childhood with some problems is statistically quite "fair."

New comment by Exoristos in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

Exoristos — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:02:17 +0000

Given an effective sample size, parents have a much higher success rate ensuring children do not grow up as hazards to the society than publicly-funded programs do.

New comment by Exoristos in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

Exoristos — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:55:32 +0000

This is a very cogent observation that I'm afraid is going to go over many heads. Children and parents are intrinsically suited to each other by genetics, shared environment, and other empirical factors. Societal and legal reasoning that asserts a child as a Platonic form cannot in fact benefit the singular development of that child.

New comment by Exoristos in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

Exoristos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:53:42 +0000

You didn't replace the battery[0]?

0. https://www.ifixit.com/products/iphone-13-mini-battery

New comment by Exoristos in "iPhone Duo"

Exoristos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:45:16 +0000

It's to make commercial use of paper mind-numbingly easy in terms of calculation and avoiding waste.

New comment by Exoristos in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

Exoristos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:57 +0000

The discussion as I understood it was alternatives to modern capitalism.

New comment by Exoristos in "The two Christian saints who are the Buddha"

Exoristos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:22:41 +0000

You're using quite a broad brush with "non-conformist," so I'll assume you're referring to Roman Christian martyrdom. The perception of Christians in that era was more or less that they were being coerced to libel Christ and suppress his memory, who moreover had the vital Answer for humankind; and to dissolve their brotherhoods as conspiratorial organizations, including by incriminating friends and family and (in time, certainly by Diocletian) to libel their ancestors. This is quite different from the modern, essentially Reformation, view of them, which is that they were ideologues with an obstinate disinclination to lose the argument. Another misconception is that they were under continuous persecution, when in fact Roman enforcement was more like a limited number of notorious showdowns well spread out over time and terrain; however, this one is not just a modern view but was also promoted by fairly early hagiographers[0]. Finally, resisting even per the rationale I've described was quite controversial, and not all Christians refused to capitulate, even after it had become an established religious concept and practice. For example, see the Donatist controversy in re traditores[1].

0. https://classics.cornell.edu/news/roman-historian-views-earl...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatism

New comment by Exoristos in "The two Christian saints who are the Buddha"

Exoristos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:50:21 +0000

The idea that Christianity equates to "very very clean" scholarship regarding "original texts" would surprise most Christians in most periods. It's also not plain to me how this could even amount to a religion, considering all the practical, anthropological value adherents naturally expect one to provide.

New comment by Exoristos in "AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA"

Exoristos — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:08:36 +0000

Executive fiat, given the right executive body, and undergirded by healthy autarkies or other cell-type self-direction, worked well in most locales for most of the years humans have been humans. Certain flashy civilizations, Sumer, Greece, have tended to draw the spotlight incommensurately with their population sizes. But even these functioned much more like what I describe above than anything modern.

New comment by Exoristos in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

Exoristos — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:56:39 +0000

Many such mutual activities are being lost. But I can't believe permanently.

New comment by Exoristos in "The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions"

Exoristos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:22:26 +0000

What percentage of Condé Nast's or Bertelsmann's gross receipts do you think goes directly to editorial and print workers?

New comment by Exoristos in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

Exoristos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:19:52 +0000

He could hardly complain about his, as he didn't have one.

New comment by Exoristos in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

Exoristos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:18:49 +0000

There were and have always been trading and other exchanges all over the world. The Egtved girl was traveling from north to central Germany, probably for marriage. Now, if we mean most people did not do this, then sure. But there's a persistent idea that ancient cultures were not in contact with each other, and this is largely disproven.

New comment by Exoristos in "I wanna live an NPC life"

Exoristos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:22:19 +0000

Political movements can certainly be an important factor of modern power given the right instigators, but transferring the importance to oneself is, again, damaging mania.

New comment by Exoristos in "I wanna live an NPC life"

Exoristos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:19:06 +0000

"People" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

New comment by Exoristos in "I wanna live an NPC life"

Exoristos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:40:42 +0000

In Hades, yes. Vanishingly few of us actually control our fates or societies even to a small extent. The modern tendency to think like we do is a form of mania. By indulging it, we damage the only control we really have, our relative health and peace of mind.

New comment by Exoristos in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

Exoristos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:56:00 +0000

> opt-in by default

That's called opt-out.

New comment by Exoristos in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

Exoristos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:00:03 +0000

I agree it's useless for any final-draft user-facing copy. However, again, I'm much more concerned about a reliable software engineering process, which Claude (and me in the loop) gives me in a way I have learned not to trust (at least not yet) from others.