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Harvard study authors never read Emil Cioran.

Why do you say that - are you referencing something specific or just a point about his framing of existence? I just finished "a short history of decay"

Cioran claimed to have been able to avoid killing himself by fully embracing the idea of suicide.

Cioran was a pessimist and a nihilist (and a blowhard) and interested in the idea of suicide, but never suicidal in the first place.

He denied being a nihilist, himself, multiple times, as well as those having studied his work. He was an extreme sceptic.

I'd like to understand this quip better as well

Thank you for opening my horizons :)

It's been over 25-30 years since we've been using honeytokens as means to track data of all sorts showing up in places it shouldn't exist. Why isn't research material embedding such?

The French original version of the book appears to be 12 years old (2014). Is the English translation linked here a somehow more up to date book?

Is this getting out of control, or is it "business as usual"?

It is in not in any sense "business as usual". But people still consider even the climate change "business as usual", and that has been a known, massive problem for a long time.

> That being said, I am not sure what's the killer application for this technology...

Build it, and they will come ;)


I saw him live in a presentation he gave in Chicago, early 90s. He and his book are the cause of my switching from a very young PhD in thermodynamics career to going back to school for CS, then working in the latter field until retirement, years back. I also read his Silicon Snake Oil book, as soon as it came out, which he - himself - publicly claimed to have been in error, in parts, sometimes, but about which I now think - looking at X, TruthSocial, TikTok, etc. - that may, in fact, has been premonitory...


> Silicon Snake Oil book, as soon as it came out, which he - himself - publicly claimed to have been in error, in parts, sometimes, but about which I now think - looking at X, TruthSocial, TikTok, etc. - that may, in fact, has been premonitory...

It wasn’t really premonitory. More technophobic. It’s understandable in 1995 to have written it as few could envision what we have today.


Look up the definition of "premonitory". It definitely is.


I felt like Cassandra. Still do.


Does anyone have a solution for reading progress sharing across macos library (now using calibre) and moonreader+ on android? What about highlights sharing?


I also want to know this.


Kindle format link == 404


Emil Cioran, in "A Short History of Decay", thinks that if humanity were deprived of work and sustained action for an indefinitely long "Sunday afternoon," boredom would become so unbearable that violence—crime in particular—would emerge as the principal means of escaping the oppressive emptiness of time.

"If Sunday afternoons were extended for months, where would humanity get to, liberated from sweat, from the weight of the first curse? The experiment would be worth the trouble. It is more than likely that crime would become the sole diversion, that debauchery would seem candor, shouting melody and jeers tenderness. The sensation of time's immensity would make each second into an intolerable torment, a sublime firing squad. In hearts imbued with poetry would appear a blasé cannibalism and a hyena's melancholy; butchers and executioners would die out—of lethargy; churches and brothels would split with sighs. The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon... it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe."


Obtainium works just fine with the github source


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