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by JALTU 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! Knots has lovely metre, which feels/sounds like the famous Bene Gesserit litany against fear. I must not reveal the game / Revelation makes me the rule breaker / Revelation means alienation that brings tot
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Hiding in plain sight, anyone? First rule of tradecraft is you don't talk about tradecraft.
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Also, just FWIW: Sam Harris' Waking Up app has many podcast style conversations with and monologues by practitioners of variations on meditation/mindfulness. I'm suggesting this as a starting point if the article's conte
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by JALTU 5y ago
There was a long-form, dramatic (as is typical) story about a woman who lost control and eventually committed suicide in The New Yorker or similar that I can't find at the moment, but any search on the "dangers of" or "d
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I'm paraphrasing, but a scientist on a podcast said something like, "Science is not about so-called 'facts' as much as it is about reducing the uncertainty of a hypothesis enough that you have a working model." ^Thi
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by JALTU 5y ago
I'm no art historian, but from one point of view, good photography demonstrated qualities you'd find in good painting. Then the medium took on its own aesthetic with camera angles or color saturation of various films. Fast forward
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Personal finance is simple, financial planning (forecasting/scenario planning) is hard, and building software to "teach" this to customers is vastly harder and not really in the wheelhouse of financial institutions. This isn&
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Related to this age observation, I happened to be listening to a recording of Anand Giridharadas speaking in Seattle about how technocratic, engineering-oriented, "rational" mindsets (like most of the people here, like the people
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+1 for "just" changing the rules or ball or whatever to improve (or at least test) game dynamics for greater balance and (presumably) interest. My personal interest is for soccer to allow more substitutions to let coaches tweak th
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by JALTU 5y ago
I appreciate these links, thank you. I wish there could/would be a point by point response to the criticisms from Yuval, however. Humans have a predictable tendency to undermine each other, so it would be nice to easily see the counter
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I have thought, in my experience, that the c-suite would be smart enough and savvy enough to see this, and even be incentivized to do something about it, but...maybe not. It's kind of the water we swim in, after all. I recall once havi
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by JALTU 5y ago
I'm more concerned about the homes that will go up in flames due to ruptured gas lines. With the fire department overwhelmed, the potential amount of toxic smoke/fumes post-quake scares me more than the quake. Assuming I survive,
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by JALTU 6y ago
Avi Loeb's work was "validated" by his school's chair of astronomy, so we have to remember that to do science is to mitigate against being human. We all have different standards as to what is science as the anti-vax&#x27
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Reinforced repeatedly with career/publication steps, homeownership, children's expenses, neighbor buying a Tesla first, etc.
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Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" is a excellent book for understanding art.
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Every once in a while, I see art I really wish I had thought of...especially as a non-STEM major who has a high affinity for applied STEM stuff.
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So much fun ancillary commentary here! Anyway, more good stuff just one step back to an earlier article in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/have-aliens-found-us-...
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100% gets my vø†ë
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Nothing wrong with having that opinion. You might consider that not all humans have equal capacity for free will, and not all humans are equally able to resist addictive substances. And that someday you may be responsible for, or even love