David Chapman

@Meaningness

Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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  1. 53 minutes ago

    Seems it would be useful for me to write a post clarifying the differences between Vajrayana and hedonism?

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  2. 57 minutes ago

    Well-directed anger as continues his disassembly of the fundamental logic of Buddhism.

    Against Merciful Lies < an essay outlining an argument against skilful lies as exemplified in the Lotus Sutra.
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    8 hours ago

    Result of modern naive suppression of ritual is pseudo-ritualization of everything, including the most trivial and banal.

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    Feb 16

    In 1970, when James Brown was writing, there were only four sex machines in all of America, and each was the size of a room

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  5. Feb 17

    While corvids are planting forests, raptors are deliberately burning them down. ♻️

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    Feb 15

    Corvids could save forests from the effects of climate change

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    Feb 5

    All compounded things are transient. Some day all that will be left of you is your open browser tabs.

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    Feb 16

    "work on Indian history is increasingly threatened by those who cling to a fabricated past"

    Audrey Truschke explains what we can learn from ’s past, via :
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    Feb 14

    Shannon's thoughts on the Information Theory bandwagon ring true for machine learning today. (via )

    11:53 PM - 14 Feb 2016 · Details
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    Feb 14

    . That’s the multibillion dollar question. Does Google really care if deep learning works, or are they just buying publicity?

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    Feb 14

    Do investors actually want to be dissuaded from hype though?

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  12. Feb 14

    I blame and for the loss of sleep:-)

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  13. Feb 14

    Was up for couple hours in middle of night thinking how to pitch a Red Team that debunks AI hype as a service to investors/big tech cos

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    Feb 14

    Looks like a memo from 1981 tbh

    There’s going to be a quite spectacular explosion of bullshit around AI. Abstruse academic concepts meet clickbait and powerpoint
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  15. Feb 13

    This touches on some of the reasons I suspect deep learning is much less impressive than currently believed:

    Fooling neural networks with backpropagation:
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  16. Feb 13

    Reaction gifs are how Millennials are collectively working through urgent spiritual problems that are invisible to most older people.

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  17. Feb 13

    Boomers are still obsessing over Reaganism vs hippie movement. Gen-X still thinks what musical genre you listen to matters.

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  18. Feb 13

    Each next gen’s culture seems trivial to previous cuz it addresses different problems & “fails” to tackle what previous thought important

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  19. Feb 13

    Even Gen-Xers don’t understand how irrelevant their issues are to what is happening now. Basically, no one in Buddhism has a clue.

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