HexPhantom

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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
The one part I struggle with is -accept everything-. Acceptance helps with what cannot be changed, but I have also become happier by refusing to accept certain jobs, habits, relationships...
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
That's probably the sweet spot
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
There's something useful about time that is already spoken for. You're on the train, you can't do much else, so learning some Dutch feels easy. At home the same half hour somehow gets fragmented into six different things
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
I think there's a middle group too: people who like having learned something, but don't really enjoy those first few sessions. For them, just knowing that the initial frustration is normal can help a lot
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
Wanna say that this is a much better argument for learning than productivity or "becoming a more interesting person". Sometimes it is simply a way to keep the mind pointed outward
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
One thing I wish this emphasized more is that adults often confuse learning with consuming material about learning, which is why my useful rule has become: if I'm not producing errors, I'm probably not practicing yet
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
I think this is a bit too deterministic. Even if Europe is in a weak position economically, "the US does not need the rest of the world" seems overstated
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
It feels less like a pure tech market now and more like cloud, semiconductors and defense policy all getting mixed together
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
Where the frontier labs still have a business is probably not casual consumer chat
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
I share the sadness, but I'm not sure the consumer market was ever the main prize here
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by HexPhantom 3mo ago
Hard to see how this does not turn into export controls for models, just with a lot more ambiguity
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
You may not build your daily system that way afterwards, but the mental model sticks
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
Yeah, that seems like an important distinction
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
Instead of always trying to make models more current and general, there may be value in making them deliberately narrow, historically constrained and weird in a well-defined way
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
The vitamin D angle seems much more plausible to me as a public-health issue than as an explanation for broad population-level cognitive differences
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
What I find more plausible is that low sun exposure is one small contributor among many
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
The paper isn't saying vitamin D determines cognition in general, just that there was a modest signal in a couple of memory measures
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
Women in the study weren't all starting from very low vitamin D levels
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
I'd read this less as "high-dose vitamin D makes kids smarter" and more as "prenatal vitamin D might matter for some neurodevelopmental outcomes, and it’s worth testing more directly"
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
I think "accountability sink" is the right phrase here
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by HexPhantom 4mo ago
I think the only plausible argument for AI here is not "it knows age better than humans," but "it might be more consistent than ad hoc visual judgments by different officers"
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
I especially like "do they show their work?" In a gold rush, obscurity is often part of the business model: vague claims, unverifiable demos, hand-wavy benchmarks, carefully managed customer stories. Companies serving serious prof
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
Maybe a respectable company is one where the answer to "what would make this business more profitable but worse for the world?" is not treated as a product roadmap
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
I think that's why integrity matters so much: it removes a whole layer of moral bookkeeping from daily life
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
I think that's a good distinction: not everyone in tech has to be "passionate" in the romantic sense, but it's hard to do good work for years if you actively dislike the underlying activity
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
Some of it is very 19th-century and easy to over-romanticize, but "reputation is the asset" and "debt trades away freedom" have aged pretty well
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
Either way, the bird ends up with the same strange bargain: unobstructed vision paid for by an inefficient metabolic workaround
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
Once you look closely, theiliar animal face kind of disappears and you're just staring at alien biological hardware
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
And the photography almost steals the show
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by HexPhantom 5mo ago
Apparently they skipped sunglasses and evolved a glucose-hungry retina instead. Seems like an expensive solution, but hard to argue with the results

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