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Well, we could attempt to reconstruct it from history and similar landempires. We could take babylonian or russian history and transpose it into the language. Then recreate some superiority atrocity justification mythology ("gods chosen people"/"sinners-born-unpure"-must be purged.) Then we take all the tribes that sided with the spaniards, whose history they wiped out and invent some colorful horror-stories that other them. So, the spaniards of the new world getting trampeled by the old world, who brought gonorreha home,creating hyper puritan std ethics, voila.. nothing of value was lost.


Its also for free to repair a hole in the hand after trying to knock a hole into the wall ;)


Not free if your time has a value :)


The absence of all ugly is the real ugly.


Hypothetically if the m$ cloud ecosystem got completely oblibetated (including backups) would customers switch? Or is the lockin as complete as it is with the operating system customers?


MR. Quiche - we meet again..


By that reasoning all that is missing is what a human brings as "stimuli" to review, refine and reevaluate as complete.


I don't think that's quite the only thing missing, I also discussed the idea of a sense of self. But even if that was all there was, it's a pretty big "but".


Give me less articles more GPS coordinates. I distrust the digital tree pulp and want to see the original tree pulp.


They run capitalism in its purest form


AI makes it a game-theory-wise bad move to not defect and still work effective. Ask your chat gpt on how to docial hack your superior to create a impression of being successful.


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