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by _elephant 1y ago
One part that really hit home for me was how constraints actually help you cut through the noise. Like for me, I stopped trying to get to the perfect gym routine and just decided I’d never work out for more than 30 minutes. That one rule ma
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How Will AI Transform Human Life in the Next 20 Years?(thetimes.com)
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by _elephant 1y ago
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, recently shared his vision that AI could cure all diseases and solve energy crises within the next decade. He also foresees that AI might render many human jobs obsolete as it surpasses human performa
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by _elephant 1y ago
I completely agree that genetics play a crucial role in shaping our personalities. Classic studies, like those involving twins, have shown that genetic factors can account for a significant portion of our personality and preferences—often e
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by _elephant 1y ago
This is a very thorough technical analysis—thanks for sharing! It seems like even though Juicebox itself uses libSodium sealed boxes and HSMs, the security is ultimately constrained by the 32 rounds of argon2id for the PIN derivation and Tw
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by _elephant 1y ago
Exactly. A clone might share the face, but it can never share the path. What makes someone who they are isn’t just DNA, but all the invisible things—memories, struggles, love, randomness. We’re not just born—we become.
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by _elephant 1y ago
Technology can copy the body, but not the soul. What moves us is never sameness—it’s uniqueness.
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by _elephant 1y ago
It makes a good point by separating history as strategic analysis from history as cultural appreciation. Most teaching today leans toward the latter, which is also easier for AI to replicate. But the most valuable historical thinking often
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by _elephant 1y ago
I’ve felt this too — the eerie sense that we’re creating not for people, but for scraping bots and transformer stacks. But I don’t think it ends there. Even in a world of tokenized consumption, the texture of human work still leaves a resid
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by _elephant 1y ago
I had the same feeling. Scrolling through it felt like watching the outtakes of a creative life. What really struck me wasn’t the expensive items, but the strangely human scale of everything. The handmade furniture, the dusty coffee makers,
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by _elephant 1y ago
When a public figure dies, there’s a sudden rupture in their living story. Auctions then act as a collective ritual — a way society processes that rupture by distributing pieces of the narrative. Whether it’s a scarf, a script draft, or a b
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by _elephant 1y ago
What if language didn’t begin with words but with resonance? Watching chimpanzees throw stones into trees feels less like a primitive gesture and more like a signal—a pulse across time. Not just a message to others nearby, but a mark etched