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Remember, when [bristolz] passed away?... Information-theoretic definition of death implies you're not dead, if the structures encoding your personality, memories, beliefs, desires etc. can be reconstructed to appropriate functional level through inference.
Here is what: a community has much lower
probability of disappearing from existence than an individual, and a person's essence sometimes can be summarized in a short motto of one's life.
The Reliquary of Principles would be a page dedicated for the guiding principles of halfbakers' lives, a place where these principles are kept, and collected slowly, at everyone's pace, since it would require everyone's introspection and time.
Hopefully this could become good a source of inspiration, and just maybe, a way for those who may inevitably die in the future, to survive, in some form, in those, whom they will inspire.
Wikipedia - Information-theoretic death
http://en.wikipedia...ion-theoretic_death
[Inyuki, May 28 2012]
Halfbakery - bristolz
http://www.halfbakery.com/user/bristolz
[Inyuki, May 28 2012]
Blundstones
http://www.blundstone.com/
[UnaBubba, Jun 04 2012]
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I think 'Reliquary of Principles' might be a more apt name
for this, but I like it. The idea that I could come back many
times over the course of my life and add little pieces of
wisdom to that which I and others have previously laid
down has a somewhat Zen-like feeling. [+] |
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// 'Reliquary of Principles' // |
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Definitely… 'Graveyard of Principles' makes it
sound as if being elected to public office is
somehow involved. |
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Whoa did you post this before or after my posting? I didn't see it until now. |
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I found a nice quote in one of the links: |
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"It is impossible to conclude based on present
evidence that either failure criterion is likely to be
met." |
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Ok. With your recommendations, renamed the idea to 'The Reliquary of Principles'. |
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Much though I agree with the motivation behind
this idea, and much though I love the HB, the
perpetuation of my HB-related idiosyncracies is
not really the full nine yards of immortality I
aspire to. |
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As Woody Allen said when asked if he hoped to
become immortal through his cinematographic
legacy, "No. I want to become immortal by not
dying." |
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I think the HB may have significantly extended the
lifespans of some of its regular denizens, but by
keeping them alive rather than by immortalizing
them. |
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[MaxwellBuchanan], can't agree with you more. Indeed, it won't bring the true immortality, which, some other ideas actually bring us closer to. |
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Who wants to live forever? |
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anyone who is not prepared to commit suicide. |
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We're probably all prepared to commit suicide in the
right circumstances, I would suggest. |
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I'm not getting this one. How is it possible to tell the
guiding principles of halfbakers' lives, is this just a
place where we put opinions of others here formed
from reading their posts? |
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That's the point... are they principles or merely
observed attributes? |
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The HB'ers will live on as long as there is not another system crash. Anyway, [UnaBubba] died once and came back already. And see what trouble that caused! But still, [+]. |
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There's no trouble, [squeak]. Everything is cool and
sweet, while there's no-one stepping on my toes. |
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I agree, [UB}. Keep those steel-toed Doc Martins on. |
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Doc Martens? Soft-toed casual shoes. |
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