Tag: cruelty manipulation meaninglessness

ChessBase.com – Chess News – Magnus Carlsen ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’

ChessBase.com – Chess News – Magnus Carlsen ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’

“Id call myself an optimist! In actual fact I dont have any clear preferences in chess. I do what I think circumstances require of me I attack, defend or go into the endgame. Having preferences means having weaknesses.”

Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker

Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker

Lots of nice moments… ‘Once a tendency has been put in place by nature, he writes, it is not essential that each and every expression of it serve survival and reproduction.”… As he says, The evolutionary reasons for altruistic behavior are not necessarily the animals reasons.’

Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

“It now seems to us… that what distinguishes the three groups… is their different attitudes to meaninglessness. Formal logical proofs, and therefore programs, are utterly meaningless. To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusion.”