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I am unable to describe myself.

OK. But I can try. I am interested in meaning. For example, what do these words mean? What does this sentence mean? What does it mean for me to say this? What does it mean when you read this? Were you searching for meaning, when you read this? Of course you were. That's what humans do.

One reason I'm interested in #meaning is because I am trying to make machines (robots, computers) that also search for and find meaning. (some people call this #agi) I want to understand the theory of meaning. For me, that means knowing a lot of #mathematics. (I really do know a LOT of rather advanced mathematics.)

But there's something else: the modern crisis of meaning. #fake-news, what does it mean? #sense-making, what does it mean? #meme ? #propaganda ? #conspiracy theory? #socialjustice ? #alt-right ? #antifa ? #pansexual #lgbtq ? #capitalism ? #economics ? What does it mean? Why do people say and do these things? These are social phenomena: its #sociology in the broad. This is society, trying to find meaning within itself. Waves of unfettered thinking washing over our neurons.

So .. that's some of what is .. interesting to me .. there's more. But .. enough about me. (Come be my friend, if you too are interested in such things).

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senos bobutes

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Re: %HCFpH/GQ2

Ah, what are wives for.

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"You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page. Learn More"

I had to type that in by hand because, apparently, they disabled cut-n-paste for the entire web page. I cannot even cut-n-paste the song title.

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Voted ![Happy Chinese New Year!](&0zK5ePVXL1oDahsdaCoPVxpcWKsA+y4IThQQFNqVHNc=.sh
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In the mood to waste your time gaining useless knowledge about deep things? Try this:

Emmerman, Rolf; Lauterjung, Jörn (August 10, 1997). "The German Continental Deep Drilling Program KTB: Overview and major results". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 102 (B8): 18179–18201.

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Voted ![a-miniature-model-of-the-palace-of-the-republic-with-a-model-of-a-J32356.
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I just find it fun to talk and listen. :smile:

I was hoping that this would all go slide down the humor slope, because I'd worked out something punchy about joining the Borg Collective, being Locutus of Borg, and repeating "one of us .. one of us ... one of us..." like in the pod-people movie.

Because, uh, hello, social media? That's what the Borg was, wasn't it? But Locutus never spoke about the mind viruses rampaging through the Borg...

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Voted [@Linas](@KswLLKHtpKd0Nay95TEmH4vKLYbOMkS6Co716pddmWI=.ed25519) good points
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Re: %4Bg2wuMLa

Well, my attempt at humor went over like a lead balloon. So lets try treating it as a serious point. We live in an age where information is rapidly increasing in value, becoming more valuable than physical objects. The most valuable information is about the behavior of humans. Its valuable because it is used to sell us things, (abstractly: to manipulate our behavior) to change our minds, our vote our political affiliation, or whatever latest scheme to extract money and power from our collective attention span.

This is a real thing. What can you do about it? Um, sure, what @the Queen of England official 👑 said. That's one thing, then. If your smart enough to figure out that your attention span is being exploited, then you're smart enough to figure out what to do if you don't like that.

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Voted what I think you are talking about is universal basic income, something to

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