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  • Not sure I share that viewpoint for the US, the history of the indigenous is the story of the people, not the nation.

    And the US has many more populations that have great history, from EU and Africa.

    But the beginning of its history is founded on the gathering and interaction of all those different cultures.

    So for me saying the country is young doesn’t quite have the same connotations of erasure from colonialist, it mostly makes me think of how current the melting pot of all those different cultures are.

    I still agree we shouldn’t diminish the importance of indigenous people in it.



  • I’m exactly like that too. I think my nature isn’t nice, but i can choose to be.

    And i’m also admiring anyone that as that nice nature, i find it beautiful and extremely attractive. So to a degree i have that goal of trying to choose it whenever i can.

    One drawback, wich also coincide with my very rational personality is that i hate having too strong of an emotion, had anger issues as a kid, but also the start of love is somewhat unpleasant for example.

    But hey, to me as long as your trying to be better, your are good person.





  • I get that, most people are like you, it’s normal. Best thing for everyone is to avoid those persons.

    But my point of view is a lot more optimistic, i think having this behavior isn’t all their are defined as. They can still grow and learn, especially on other area of life.

    Depending on how much they rely on this behavior you can have two approach…

    If it’s little, you can teach them better without them knowing, as long as it doesn’t directly clash with their dogma, but it requires to be subtle.

    If they rely to much on it, the best course is to detach their opinions from the real world and only speak to them with very down to earth things.

    I know it will not always really work, most of the time my optimistic view is to idealistic. I can have it because i’m more tolerant, maybe too much.

    The goods thing is, even if i’m wrong, i can enjoy myself doing this, and for the rare time i do change something in that person, well that feels great.


  • That’s technically true, but the question then becomes, why are our assumptions different?

    If it’s based on different beliefs of what reality is (ground work), it would be normal to fight for truth.

    If it’s based on our affinity for the result of the argumentation (the house), it would also be normal to fight for our own benefit and those like us.

    So realistically i don’t see any reason as to why we should respect each other’s opinions… all would incentives us to fight for the correct assumptions.

    This in itself doesn’t mean we should stop respecting people though!





  • Classical mechanics, right from the first time i learned Newton’s laws, it was always so satisfying to me. Just pure and well rounded logic to explain everything, it’s so neat.

    Best example for me was the 2 body problem. Going from the 6 degrees of freedom to a simple uniform rectilinear motion of the center of mass and then leaving us with only 2 degrees of freedom. Such a elegant solution, so satisfying.


  • That’s probably the most useful way we can use language models.

    But i do think there is also a use for finding key information (like a name) way quicker without the need to use keywords as we do in browsers.

    Then it make any research using that information extremely easy if you got the keyword, and if that’s the goal you also will confirm the validity of the answer in your process…

    P.S. The first time i used chatGPT this way was very conclusive. I was looking for a philosophical point of view but didn’t know at all if it even had a name, it gave it to me extremely quickly from just few lines of explaining (ontic structural realism for anyone interested).





  • That’s not a good argument, nor true.

    A foetus is the stage after the embryo, when organogenesis is done meaning tissue and organs have formed, right up to the point of delivery.

    This means at delivery, a foetus becomes a baby by coming out, no other changes.

    So i wouldn’t really call that difference relevant in a moral debate. The stages of development or number of weeks is, but you can’t really distinguish the two without this specification.

    That’s why where i live we allow 14 weeks after the first absence of periods for example.

    Edit : I don’t know why i got downvoted, i’d love to hear why i’m wrong. Maybe just to be clear, i agree with abortion, just not this argument.


  • I’m not a song writer but it seems to me a lots of songs can share some similar chord progression without being in any way the same. It can be more or less obvious.

    I feel like, as we’re immersed into music, when creating music what we hear in our head can and will be influenced. It probably should be too.

    Because even so, you have more than one influence, you don’t put them like anyone else and that’s where you start putting something that’s you, into it.

    But to me that also mean what you feel is not only normal for a song writer, but also to any creative process.

    I myself got quite obsessed at some point with this question of what is “original”, what is creation.

    It’s pretty philosophical though, on a more practical point of view the best solution is to be learn to recognize your influences in general, and start to build your own style from them. Then you’ll know even if one melody resembled another it’s still your song. That takes a good level of expertise to define yourself though, and is never really fixed, wich will mean the question can come back often.