nanna
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Background in philosophy, PhD on Norbert Wiener.
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Comment · 4 days ago
Nietzsche had no qualms with asserting answers. If anything this should be named after Socrates. But then Socrates would have despised AI for its automation of thinking. Really this Claude project shouldn't be named after philosophers at all.
Comment · 1 month ago
https://archive.org/details/arcade_galgame
Space, Alt and Ctr to hyperspace, thrust and fire. You're welcome.
Comment · 3 months ago
Was the game Ökolopoly an influence on him? It was a 'cybernetic environment game (kybernetik unweltspiel)' from West Germany where players run a country and strive to hold off economic, social and ecological collapse. It was released as a board game (beautiful, if I may so so, owning a copy) in the early 1980s and then the true, apparently fully realised DOS videogame followed later. It always seemed like a simple Sim City to me.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kolopoly
https://archive.org/details/oekolopoly_202509
Further question, how much did he read about cyberneticş beyond Gaia Theory? Was he influenced by Norbert Wiener?
Comment · 6 months ago
Why is Polymarket legal? I just don't understand.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is something I wanted to get into after vising Alhambra, which really is the "mirror of paradise" that it purported to be. You say that the complex designs are done by hand, but given how mathematical they are it left me wondering if there is a thriving scene of computer-generated patterns?
Comment · 8 months ago
Wait why are there separate mens and womens prizes?
Comment · 8 months ago
Bit confused, what's this to do with the CIA World Factbook?
Comment · 9 months ago
I remember that one of Stockholm's train line is also endearingly tiny too?
Comment · 9 months ago
Looks like TFL issued a whopping three fines in total last year...