arduanika

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by arduanika 6mo ago
Yeah. Can we get a title change please? Among the dup stories submitted, this one has the best content but the worst title.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
He already had the trail of his retirement mapped out, and picked the perfect moment to blaze it.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
> 2. To truly listen means to place yourself mentally and physically in a vulnerable state. Because you will likely hear things that run contrary to your experience, beliefs, and worldview. Judging people is often a self protection mecha
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Depends on the context. Maybe consult with one of the tone poem people before trying to play hardball at office politics.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
There is a well-documented spectrum from direct to indirect styles of communication, among both cultures and individuals. The "tone poem" observation is a true description of that fact, even if it's a bit hyperbolic and color
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Thanks! I think about this concept a lot, and now I know there's a name for it. "Preparedness paradox". I'll have to remember that. And to your point, Y2K is right there on the wiki page for it.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
> ignoring the billions of people who don't commit violence > taken as evidence that the whole group is violent Where did I say that? I am not the one who put forward a categorical statement here. You're the one who appealed
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Interesting, thanks. I guess I'll carry on feeling marginally superior for choosing Signal over the others as my default, while remaining bleak about the overall landscape.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
> The UAE government owns majority holdings in telecom companies Etisalat and Du. This gives security services the power to observe all communications on their networks. > The Arab state has also used the Israeli-developed software Pe
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Closer to the Time Cube of sleep! It's an impressive achievement, really. Here's a shorter page of his I've found more digestible: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Curing_DSPS_and_insomnia
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by arduanika 6mo ago
None of this is responsive to my point in the comment you're responding to. My point is, why would you be talking about a counterfactual world where people did not attempt to kill for this philosophy? Why would you be entertaining a ca
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Fair enough. Retry: What I'm objecting to is your brilliant, insightful point, to which you are attached enough that you've injected it into this thread where it is, by your own admission, irrelevant. They're resorting to vio
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by arduanika 6mo ago
> "If the only people that reach your conclusion are ones that don't actually subscribe to the philosophy, then it doesn't matter, because no one is actually acting on those conclusions." What an odd thing to say righ
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by arduanika 6mo ago
I am aware of their arguments, yes, but what I'm objecting to is that you're bringing this irrelevant hobbyhorse into a discussion of a truly fringe ideology. We're not talking about a classic G&P-style issue where the vo
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by arduanika 6mo ago
It is true that only Yudkowsky gets to say what the rational conclusion of his ideas are. Nobody else gets to speculate. Only the pope of rationalism, because he's the rational one here. See? It's right there in the name! > thi
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by arduanika 6mo ago
> "fix participatory democracy" Ah yes, a popular codeword for "I did not get my way". There is no electoral majority behind the AI doomer cult. It is not a failure of "democracy" that they haven't gott
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Upvoted because this is an interesting take, but I disagree at least somewhat. I think you should be wary whenever you've narrowed down your options to, "in order to solve the top-priority problem X, our only hope is solution Y.&q
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by arduanika 6mo ago
This has been decades in the making. We had premonitions of the violence that would come, for example with the Zizians. Get ready for what happens when a million blogposts worth of bad philosophy, bad analogies, and anti-institutionalist hu
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by arduanika 6mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by arduanika 6mo ago
I'm not sure you really understood my comment. A large portion of the kind of value I'm talking about comes from attempting the hard thing. If these chickens do not hatch that will be tragic, but we will still have learned somet
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by arduanika 6mo ago
You could even say that part of the value of Artemis is that we're remembering how to do some very hard things, including the software side. This is something that you can't fake. In a world where one of the more plausible threats
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Please, this is hacker news. Nothing else is hard outside of our generic software jobs, and we could totally solve any other industry in an afternoon.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
(Off-topic:) Great word. Is that the usual word for it? Totally apt, and it should be the standard.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
No. Welcome to the petrobitcoin economy. Edit: Piecing together from other comments, it sounds like these tolls are denominated in USD ($1 per barrel), but as an implementation detail, they're charging in BTC as the instrument of choic
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Matter of fact, it's all dark.
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by arduanika 6mo ago
The eternal return of https://xkcd.com/303/
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by arduanika 6mo ago
Also this exclusive interview with the man himself: https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam... Includes gems such as: Q: What informs your personal sense of morality? A: Previous things I’ve gotten away
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by arduanika 6mo ago
I'm just glad that somebody solved this very slippery problem.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
George R. R. Martin completed his cycle "A Song of Ice and Fire" when he was...wait...I'll get back to you on this one.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Why would I care about my words meaning anything to anyone? I am just a meat sack with a wallet, and my only relationships with the other meat sacks are economic. There's no such thing as a culture or a community, and anyone alleging h

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