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Yup, it’s so laughably broad that almost any software that a user interacts with could come under that definition.

Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned

If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their complex social culture until ~750BC & the earliest sculptural examples of Maya script are ~300BC.

It’s extremely unlikely any books the Spanish burned dated back until then but that’s the likely earliest they would have been.

Still a massive cultural crime & attempted genocide tho

If by >30% you mean… 3, sure.

Because that’s the difference between 2019s all time low year at this point… and so far in 2023.

Oh and ‘21 & ‘22 by now? Difference of 2.

Absolute numbers don’t sound as scary as percentages tho do they? Might ruin your narrative.

The authors screed is about their personal position & thought process. Any criticism on it is fundamentally of the author.

So treating that like an objection is disingenuous at best.

Perhaps I was a little harsh with that last line, but I stand by the sentiment.

If nothing, seeing utility of existing customs is an improvement over dismissing them outright as useless or uninformed.

Indeed. A lesson most learn before leaving high school in one form or another.

However the original post doesn’t even get that far: they commit the sane error repeatedly later.

Yup. He learned nothing, and seems intent of displaying that to the world.

Exactly why I said it’s embarrassing for him.

Are you a poorly designed bot? I’m referring directly to the abysmally poor quality content in the linked post.

The fact that it got a single upvote is damning. It’s absolute purile junk that sounds like it was written by a deluded high schooler.

Like most arguments of this type it assumes the conclusion then acts like it’s terms don’t do that.

If Mary knows everything about red then she also knows what seeing it is like. If she doesn’t… then she doesn’t. They try to have it both ways by hand waving & hiding behind colloquial language but it still comes down to that in the end.

The thought experiment just reveals the writers own biases & limitations of thought rather than be revelatory in any way.

In fact this paper is often used by opponents of qualia as demonstrating why they are nonsensical & incoherent.

Got to say, I agree. Daniel Dennett has his flaws but his argument that this type of thought experiment is a category error & that qualia do not exist and are incompatible with what are basic facts we know about neuroscience should have ended this years ago.

That is literally pronounced “boleevud”. Can you guess why?

"Bollywood" was invented & popularized in Bombay-based film trade journals in the 1960s & 1970s. It was an explicit reference *by the Indian film industry there to Hollywood. It was additionally a play on “Tollywood" for the Tollygunge-based cinema of West Bengal, which had been called that since the 30s.

Your own link refutes you.

The oldest is the French film industry (Gaumont still exists & is the oldest studio still in operation), closely followed by the British film industry (notably Ealing Studios, still the oldest continuously working film facility too).

Hell, the earliest American film industry was in Brooklyn. Hollywood happened initially due to it fleeing to the west coast to avoid patents (ironically) and later the cheaper land.