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So much abstraction reality is dissolved away

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I hate the misappropriation of the word community in the crypto space. You call a bunch of people scattered around the globe buying a shitcoin a community? These people know nothing about each other, don't care about each other, that is not a community.

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There seems to not be enough research and discussion about zkML, I'd really like to hear more of it

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Where do you find all these paintings you share here?

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I'm talking about how people understand their own identity We take the ideas of individualism for granted, but upon inspection into different cultures it's seen that what people consider as part of their identity - "as them" - varies greatly The example of this I like most is that in some cultures when a family member is sick, other family members sometimes say "we" are sick, seeing the sickness of their close one not as an individual circumstance, but as a circumstance of the whole family itself So, by a sense of identity to integrate with the world, I mean for that identity to identify itself with something greater than its consciousness To tie it back to my initial point and summarize, I think Ayn Rand's philosophy emphasizes destructive aspects of individualism that seclude us from one another, precisely with ideas like rational selfishness

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Personally I hated the fountainhead, precisely because of quotes like this The metaphor of every piece of land or person having the perfect house to match it undermines the subjective nature of our values I actually started learning more in depth about objectivism as a sort of a hate-learn because I felt like I must be missing something But no - it truly as it is - Ayn Rand believed there is an objectively best set of values for every individual, and we should all strive to meet our ideal Even if we entertain the premise of her metaphysical argument on why existence "predates" consciousness, and therefore there must be a set of values that is objectively good, the subjective nature of our existence (our senses bodies and minds heavily altered under different physiological circumstances) means we can never access this objective reality in an objective way "Rational selfishness" is not the answer. Neither is sacrifice. A sense of identity that integrates the world with the self is

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And here is my full month of /inktober! Thanks everybody who followed along. Super fun experience

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I'm glad inktober is over, I was getting really tired of it. Here are some concluding thoughts: 2024 is the third time that I completed inktober, the first time I did in 2020 and the second time in 2023 This year I chose to use a dipping pen like last year, but the sketchbook paper seemed to be very sensitive to the nib and to the ink so the the flow of the pen wasn't quite right and the bleeding was abysmal. Still, I commited to using that dipping pen in that sketchbook - honestly don't know why but it felt the right choice I want to share the first inktober drawing I ever did in 2020, just to show you the incredible manner in which I've barely progressed at all in inking in the last couple of years:

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Day 31 - Landmark

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Pondering the overlap between token tickers and graffiti tag names

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Day 30 - Violin

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How is demand for diminishment of self obvious from extreme hedonism? Isn't hedonism an expression of a high sense of self importance?

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Like inktober lol

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Day 29 - Navigator

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I had a fever yesterday so I missed a day... Very unsatisfying

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