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AbouBenAdhem

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  • Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?

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  • Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

  • Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language they are fluent in, similar to functionally illiterate, but for speech?

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  • Agnosia or asemia?

  • What's a good job thats easy to get?

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  • Secretary of Health.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.

  • How do you catch up being out of the loop in politics and wars?

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  • Wikipedia’s current events portal covers current events and conflicts with links to plenty of background info.

  • Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"

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  • Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.

    They should put that disclaimer on their entire operating system.

  • Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary

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  • Montreal is just a subspace of Montcomplex.

  • What is the best way to eat spinach?

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  • Saag paneer.

  • I wonder how the Habsburgs would have felt about pugs

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  • Probably the same way Putin feels about Dobby.

  • Why don't you have persimmons at home right now? how dare you?

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  • I ate the last one yesterday.

    Did you really expect me to resist?

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • Sign language isn’t just another way of expressing English that can be picked up like learning a different alphabet or a secret code. It’s a full, independent language with its own complete vocabulary, syntax, inflectional system, etc. that takes as long to learn as any other natural language.

    It would be great if more people knew it for the sake of communicating with the deaf, but as a means of foiling surveillance, there are many other approaches that would be more effective for less time investment. (Hell, you might as well learn a really obscure spoken language that would be less likely to be recognized or deciphered than ASL.)

  • What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?

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  • Global Thermonuclear War.

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    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?

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  • Before trains, sea travel was the standard way to travel long distances even if a land route was available. Sea voyages came to represent any destination that was far enough away that communities wouldn’t be in regular contact.

  • What would be interesting to bring to a home made pizza party?

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  • I had a really good pizza topped with stinging nettle once. (It doesn’t sting after cooking.)

  • Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.

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  • Assuming that

    • human phenotypic traits that correlate more closely with mouse traits have more-predictable outcomes with mouse-tested medicine, and
    • more-predictable medical outcomes correlate with higher survival and reproductive rates,

    can’t you plug that straight into the Price equation?

  • Are we still remembering The Alamo?

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  • Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.

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  • In the long run, using mice to test human medicines will result in selection pressure for humans whose physiology more and more closely resembles mice.

  • What are you confident you could win an argument about?

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  • What I’ve got in my pocket.

  • Is re-visiting a location where you had a traumatic experience a good idea? Have anyone done it?

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  • I don’t have any direct experience with that, and I can’t say if it’s a good or bad idea—but I’d say if you’re going to do it, it can’t hurt to do it with some friends and try to create some positive new experiences to overwrite the traumatic ones.

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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

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    If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

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    The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS.

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    Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them.

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    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

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    Non-language-using animals must think humans are the worst songbirds ever.

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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.

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    Compared to fountain pens and ballpoints, "Sharpies" are actually the least sharp pen type.

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    "Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.