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in thread "Everything Hellenic that needs to be forgiven and transfigured...":

The simple idea is that Greek life, drama, tragedy, philosophy, etc. were heavy subjects. Much chaos, emotional turmoil, suffering, struggle, etc. It was a difficult existence to fully endure. In German, forgives/forgiven are expressed by "verzeiht" and "V... 9mo ago received

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It's The Asian Century
Dread it, run from it, something about the structure of American immigration, meritocracy, cursus honorum, elite status, wealth, etc. enables Asian Americans to dominate. The latest classes at Harvard, since SFFA and the overturn of affirmative action, hav... posted 11mo ago with 33 replies received

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I mostly define the grouping as such for polemical reasons, but yes I understand the vast variety in Asian group behavior in Western societies. 11mo ago received

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No I am not Jewish, just wanted to rile people up 11mo ago received

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in thread "Horrorism vs Vitalism":

On the contrary, permitting passive (i.e., irrational, customary, "market-oriented") technological development threatens our "monkey business" quite intimately. I've never taken Land's nihilism with respect to ever-increasing technological capacity or inte... 12mo ago received

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OpenAI vs. New York Times on "Data Preservation
In 2023 the Times sued both Microsoft and OpenAI, and claimed both were using millions of NYT articles w/o permission to train LLMs. A little over a week ago a court determined that OpenAI did, in fact, have to preserve + segregate all output log data. Ope... posted 13mo ago with no replies received

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Bismarck's Latest on Northrop Grumman
Yesterday, Samo Burja of Bismarck Analysis and their "Briefs" newsletter/product wrote on Northrop Grumman's technological expertise (stealth capacities) and their shortcomings as an institution beholden to Pentagon & state-driven initiatives as well as (n... (finance.yahoo.com) posted 13mo ago with 7 replies received

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When does a people become "historical"? Can we achieve a Greek-like stance as Nietzsche believed late 19th C. Germans could?
Inspired by the final section of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditation titled "On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life".... posted 14mo ago with 9 replies received

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From Kondylis's Conservatismus... 14mo ago received

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In the context of Nietzsche's essay, "historicality" refers precisely to when a civilization/people emerges from acting freely, or, uninhibited by a variety of historical phenomena—ancestral worship, rigid moral tradition, and so forth. Perhaps in other ... 14mo ago received

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