New post, a little delayed this week: The Things You Carry: ribbonfarm.com/2015/06/12/the
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The things we carry (or keep around) are the complement of our garbage. Telling garbage from non-garbage is a complex judgment.
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Depressed people and certain others are not capable of it. The self and its objects become indistinguishable from garbage.
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Trying to tell garbage from non-garbage is emotional, subtle, and likely AI-hard in all but very obvious cases (food wrappers)
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Also, Bruce Sterling: any suff advanced civilization is indistinguishable from its garbage. Been exploring that elsewhere.


