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Ah i didnt see that JCB and got it flipped again (and misspelled as a bonus) — had better do this after a long walk (or sleep) Ps that was a helpful blogpost,

Ah i didnt see that JCB and got it flipped again (and misspelled as a bonus) — had better do this after a long walk (or sleep) Ps that was a helpful blogpost, as well as a very concrete wiki eg! Thanks for distilling A&R: f(o)rex “thinking” and “writing” can be quite labor-intensive, but we’d like to have finer distinctions between the types — what kinds “should” be added vs replaced.. so we should also pay attention to exchange rates?? (as a first guess, optimizing shiny vs essential — “form follows function” for reverence [why dont hackernewsies revere brutalism?] — for bosons, fermions & everything in between)

082349872349872 2y ago
I like the full ANW quote: > “It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.” but it does make sense it's normally truncated in citation: at the beginning of the XX he might have been able to expect the casual reader to appreciate a simile involving cavalry charges, and probably even Euclid, a couple of thousand years earlier, would've appreciated it, but we need a new simile for new millennia. Operations of thought are like power-ups in a game — they are strictly limited in number, they are time-boxed, and must only be made at decisive moments? https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala/page/61/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala/page/...
- gradschoolfail 2y ago
  I had a vision of the future days, One without golden bouoys or silk-clad popes; Where all the might of consumers harnessed, For health of earth and all the god’s creatures. Without irony the downtrickle shall, be Fully potable. The Apotheosis of Californication Is Neither Roman Nor British
- gradschoolfail 2y ago
  Re: HPL,J I shall join you in being charitable, in my case to YC’s secrecy (i.e. that they have a teleos, maybe a plan, but not the man :) Our other man breck did not have sufficient bad [faith] to be effective enough to find a way to archive the vid. Now hes banned https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1839135929669386633 https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1839135929669386633

082349872349872 2y ago

I like the full ANW quote: > “It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.” but it does make sense it's normally truncated in citation: at the beginning of the XX he might have been able to expect the casual reader to appreciate a simile involving cavalry charges, and probably even Euclid, a couple of thousand years earlier, would've appreciated it, but we need a new simile for new millennia. Operations of thought are like power-ups in a game — they are strictly limited in number, they are time-boxed, and must only be made at decisive moments? https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala/page/61/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala/page/...

gradschoolfail 2y ago
I had a vision of the future days, One without golden bouoys or silk-clad popes; Where all the might of consumers harnessed, For health of earth and all the god’s creatures. Without irony the downtrickle shall, be Fully potable. The Apotheosis of Californication Is Neither Roman Nor British
gradschoolfail 2y ago
Re: HPL,J I shall join you in being charitable, in my case to YC’s secrecy (i.e. that they have a teleos, maybe a plan, but not the man :) Our other man breck did not have sufficient bad [faith] to be effective enough to find a way to archive the vid. Now hes banned https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1839135929669386633 https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1839135929669386633