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Hi there. I'm a fellow 4eak. =). Perhaps this is irrelevant or missing the point (and I apologize if so). If I've understood correctly, maybe it isn't really th

by h0p3 5y ago

Hi there. I'm a fellow 4eak. =). Perhaps this is irrelevant or missing the point (and I apologize if so). If I've understood correctly, maybe it isn't really that awesome to you. Often, I see myself just filtering through what looks interesting to find the very few pieces that maintain their persistent salience in my perception (though, I am often wrong).

exikyut 5y ago
O.o No, this does sound relevant. I just googled "4eak" and found https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/4eak https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/4eak and https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P54645 https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P54645, and then from there learned about AMPK, which looks very interesting. Thanks very much for this reference, I'll definitely take a look. Also, I find I honestly kinda resonate with https://philosopher.life https://philosopher.life. I find writing an slow and arduous process, though (related kinda-interesting relevant subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112463 - the 4 comments represent the specific reference, while reading further athread (up-thread?) is likely useful for context). For me, writing is a bit like putting a train on a multi-track rollercoaster ride and then finding all the carriages on different tracks at the end ("Noooo, that carriage is upside down and all the passengers fell out.") Now I think about it a good visual analogy would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXiwNjkhxU&t=95s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXiwNjkhxU&t=95s. I think my brain has a few wiring bottlenecks in it somewhere, meaning I can only fit a certain amount of semantic value into my immediate focus, and much less than I know I should be able to. So, for example, if I'm listening to a piece of music in my head and want to actually switch to the track I'm thinking of, I basically get one shot to go "is this it", since whatever my ears hear next will immediately cancel out my memory of whatever pops into my head, even if I pause it. This seems to be a generalized extreme short-term memory problem; if I think of X, and then get a flash of insight on how it relates to Y, I'll immediately a) forgot X, and b) be incapable of deriving insight from the intersection between the two. I find I seem to be most appreciative of the contrasts between things, so this memory breakdown is extremely annoying. And all this makes summarizing and writing tricky. I'd love to do more of it, but... welp. And so, it's kinda weird, but cool weird, to be reading the kinds of things on philosopher.life that I could see myself writing if a few settings on the character sheet were upped to 11 (particularly the above, which are at like 0.1 or 0.2) :). I particularly resonate with the existentiality, and the sense of incompleteness - in the non-exceptional sense, like I don't just mean "oh yeah I kinda see like 0.2% of myself in this haha", I can see these themes throughout almost everything, from the content to the writing style, and it is duly noted. Kind of cool that you've put that amount of effort in actually... Thanks again.

by h0p3 5y ago

exikyut 5y ago

O.o No, this does sound relevant. I just googled "4eak" and found https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/4eak https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/4eak and https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P54645 https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P54645, and then from there learned about AMPK, which looks very interesting. Thanks very much for this reference, I'll definitely take a look. Also, I find I honestly kinda resonate with https://philosopher.life https://philosopher.life. I find writing an slow and arduous process, though (related kinda-interesting relevant subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112463 - the 4 comments represent the specific reference, while reading further athread (up-thread?) is likely useful for context). For me, writing is a bit like putting a train on a multi-track rollercoaster ride and then finding all the carriages on different tracks at the end ("Noooo, that carriage is upside down and all the passengers fell out.") Now I think about it a good visual analogy would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXiwNjkhxU&t=95s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXiwNjkhxU&t=95s. I think my brain has a few wiring bottlenecks in it somewhere, meaning I can only fit a certain amount of semantic value into my immediate focus, and much less than I know I should be able to. So, for example, if I'm listening to a piece of music in my head and want to actually switch to the track I'm thinking of, I basically get one shot to go "is this it", since whatever my ears hear next will immediately cancel out my memory of whatever pops into my head, even if I pause it. This seems to be a generalized extreme short-term memory problem; if I think of X, and then get a flash of insight on how it relates to Y, I'll immediately a) forgot X, and b) be incapable of deriving insight from the intersection between the two. I find I seem to be most appreciative of the contrasts between things, so this memory breakdown is extremely annoying. And all this makes summarizing and writing tricky. I'd love to do more of it, but... welp. And so, it's kinda weird, but cool weird, to be reading the kinds of things on philosopher.life that I could see myself writing if a few settings on the character sheet were upped to 11 (particularly the above, which are at like 0.1 or 0.2) :). I particularly resonate with the existentiality, and the sense of incompleteness - in the non-exceptional sense, like I don't just mean "oh yeah I kinda see like 0.2% of myself in this haha", I can see these themes throughout almost everything, from the content to the writing style, and it is duly noted. Kind of cool that you've put that amount of effort in actually... Thanks again.