The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like fount of creativity; we are always to some degree recyclers and samplers and, at our best, participants in something larger than ourselves.

But this should not be taken to show that we become what we are (painters, musicians, speakers) by doing what, for example, LLMs do – ie, merely by getting trained up on large data sets. Humans aren’t trained up. We have experience. We learn.

This is what happens when people try to apply philosophy to science. They get romantic and egotistical. “Oh, humanity, will your wondrous powers of learning ever be duplicated? Not by brutish machines, I daresay. They only do what they are told and learn what is given to them.”

He looks like he tells himself he handsome while his mom pegs him.

I’m pretty sure there is a KMFDM song for every post-apocalypse.

I gave a fact; that he was having an affair with an older woman who died shortly after the book was published. You are the one who claims that he was upset about child marriage. When we talk about people making things up, let’s remember who is basing their posts in facts, and who is basing them in unrelated conjecture.

Here’s my “theory”. He was having an affair with a woman, and like all hypocrites, he wanted to feel as though it was something that others were guilty of, too. So, he had a woman who, at the end of her life, is having regrets about their relationship. Lewis is upset that she doesn’t like their relationship anymore, and he vilifies her and in his writing says that she’s not getting into heaven because she’s an adultress.

Do I have any proof? No. Do you? No, also. However, this is based on real events that happened to him, and your idea is just “well, maybe he was into child marriage.”

He was having an affair with a woman almost 30 years older than himself, and she died in 1951. I would lean more towards him being upset about something between them, than supposed pedophilia.

Ernest Scared Stupid us up for free on YouTube right now, so, go watch it.

My favorite is butter pecan.

You say that, but mama_cutthroat is a hard bitch.

The fact that the Arrow-verse got tossed to the side like that is a travesty.

Step 2: Put him in the house that Snyder built.

And a modern calculator has more computer power than the Apollo program… This is how tech works.

90% of my comments are already taken out of context. I live by the sword, I’ll die by it, but I’ll never say something I don’t mean just to appease some fair weather crowd of internet trolls. If I die on a hill, believe it’s a hill I’ve chosen for myself.

Yeah, it’s better to just not support anything, good or bad.

The copium in some of these comments… Keep giving your money to terrible people so they feel rewarded for their acts and can continue to abuse others. I’m sure that will work out for the best.

Not enforceable as a law, but not bailing out those who do it is a great way to put an end to it.

I think the real solution is not to lend on fake money. Tax or no tax, it wasn’t taxes that caused the market crash in 2008.

This is my favorite one so far.

RIP to all of the Freshmen.

Just so long as they are fed well with meats.

It would be an instant buy for me if it has full backwards compatibility, and I’d let them tack on another hundo for psp/vita games. That’s basically what my Steam deck is. Every console emulated and PC games.