OrbitRock

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by OrbitRock 6y ago
I’m about to do something similar, but it’s getting a car that I’m going to put a bed in the back of and drive cross country to a new job, which will also involve driving around and camping as part of it. I’m all excited over the stuff I wa
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
I’m wondering what camera would be best for this kind of thing? I’d love to make some.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
DJI drones is another example
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
That’s largely an effect of bringing more regions of the world into the industrialized paradigm, whereas what the other commenter said describes what happens to people in industrialized countries.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Was it really the McKennas who wrote the first diy guide? Maybe one of the first.
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Researchers peer inside neural networks to better understand their decisions(fortune.com)
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
That to me is really how we need to be emphasizing education in science for young people. We tend to give the impression that we’ve figured almost everything out, and so you’re just learning the facts of it all. Really, we’ve carved out a l
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
I have the same mental style and that has always perplexed me too. Language to me is a kind of slow and inexact medium that we use to try to describe the stuff of thought. It probably makes us capable of thinking things that we otherwise mi
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
I think mostly using abstract non-verbal concepts. I only mentally “verbalize” it when I’m trying to be really careful in my thinking, or in certain other situations. The first way is much faster and more efficient to me.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Adults can actually learn language much more quickly then children in my opinion. The only issue is that there’s a critical window in there that shapes your accent.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Personally, I don’t see cows as very different from dogs. They’re just as social and emotional as dogs are. Intelligence wise, dogs are probably a bit smarter. But how much, I don’t know, they don’t seem that radically different.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Dusty. Gives the sky a dull reddish color. Also makes Martian sunsets blue.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Well then you come back around to valuing nature imo
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
What worries me most is the patterns of precipitation shifting. If we saw significant changes to where is wet and where is dry, we’d be scrambling to catch up and the fallout could be pretty large.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
> Seed stores, distributed infrastructure, general survival training, and so on. If we actually thought like this and prepared ourselves in this manner during good times it’d increase the resilience of our species so profoundly.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Valuing humans over other species at all costs leads to humans collapsing our environment and thus harming humans.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
No one is forcing anybody. It’s more just sharing things like birth control technology and education. This whole discussion is actually a sort of win-win scenario, because what proves to lower birth rates more effectively than anything is i
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Those are good things. We don’t want 12-14 billion humans. The biosphere is already under enormous stress. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11018
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
> to believe that we can come up with something better in a short time span is naive at best We do already have carbon capture systems that are more effective per unit area than plants at capturing carbon. I say this as someone biased in
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Well, I think the insight in the article here is that a network (including such “giants” that came before) can boost the creativity of those who come after, even including a new giant such as Newton. Think about any modern scientist. Has th
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Fantastic and courageous minds working from the void? Or fantastic and courageous minds responding to some cultural or historical material? (Which would be much in the way a TikToker responds to a meme while adding some of their own spice).
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
What kind of format would it be published in? This is pretty interesting as it is a problem I struggle with too. Your landing page there reminds me of something else I’m a fan of, e.g. Building a Second Brain through notes and web clips as
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Maybe all creativity is just mimics who repeat things and add a little bit of variation. I think the book Steal Like an Artist addresses this.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Revenue neutral carbon tax. With a slowly increasing price. They did it in British Columbia. I’m a big fan of this approach, which is actually bipartisan-ly designed. https://clcouncil.org/ Check the video in that link.
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Yeah. Another one is that people are often blind to what’s going on with the birds too. A while back I trained myself to observe plants, birds, etc. There will be stuff going on like a hawk swooping in to kill a bird and nobody even notices
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
And nowadays if you’re trying to search something related to the Amazon rainforest Amazon.com stuff comes up first...
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by OrbitRock 6y ago
Scott Alexander’s the lottery of fascinations is a good read in this area: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/30/the-lottery-of-fascina...