Is This A Joke Post Or A Serious Reflection About The Nature Of Reality? Even I Don't Know.

Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata), Libellulidae, Chambers Bay, Pierce Co., WA, USA

photograph by Steve Russell

shot: all actions are allowed chaser: none are without a price

OK. But the real question here is this: why, oh, why are you so cynical? 

Joining a guild focused on a particular skill makes you strong at that skill, in the same way that standing in a garage turns you into a car or attending church makes you a virtuous person.

When you switch on a lightbulb, your eyes perceive photons, and some neurons in your brain activate. If you switch off the light, then so-called ‘off’ neurons activate. You don’t actually “stop seeing” when you’re in the dark. No; the mind physically represents nothingness in a pattern of neurons.

The phrase “nothing exists” is not a self-contradicting statement but a statement of fact. Nothing exists.

The information chooses the necromancer. That's why all of those forbidden texts have a way of finding me.

It's a shame you can't just keep taking gray market stimulants like caffeine and eventually achieve infinite energy.

Fun game: Try to catch yourself thinking irrationally before any erroneous thought has a chance to lead you astray.

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do you ever think about how machine learning basically started in the 1940s and 1950s but they just didn't have the hardware at the time to implement it in a robust way