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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
Indeed, the first stage of the enshittification process requires mollycoddling the customer in a convincing manner. Looking forward to stage 2 - start serving the advertisers while placating the users, and finally stage 3 - offering it all
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
If you've spent time with Nix, I assume you heard about Guix at some stage. And if you've heard about Guix and still make the above comment, I assume you have some reason(s) to think the Scheme programming language doesn't so
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
Ah ok - fair enough :)
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
It is not at all, it's being misused here to make it feel like that. Wigner's essay is about how the success of mathematics in being applied to physics, sometimes years after the maths and very unexpectedly, is philosophically tro
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
My experience couldn't be further from this. As an English-speaker natively, French was the alien language which took yonks to get, German was 1. oh, these 5 things are pronounced like that, now you can read anything with confidence an
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
I always thought it was from philosophy, Kant and the likes. Order, precision, detail (allegedly!). Similarly for English and French, seen as practical and artsy, resepectively, due to say Hobbes/Smith and the likes of Baudelaire or Ri
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
I think you and GP both mean that this TEAL is adjacent to crptocurrency, and therefore, who cares about stepping on toes? This heuristic works well in most cases maybe, but will lead to false positives sometimes. May I gently suggest that
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
For the specific idea, I'm experimenting with a piece of wisdom shared with me once by a friend who had an immense repertoire of Irish traditional tunes she remembered and played effortlessly. I knew a few hundred tunes, her, thousands
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html I can't remember what I saw that lead me to that essay, but it got me thinking I should give flashcards another go. Like I guess many people, I also had tried once or twice, but
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
I recommend using Anki (or whatever software does the job) to commit everyday, normal stuff that comes up to long-term memory. Anki has desktop and phone apps, and if you make an account online, you can connect both to it and sync across th
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Sentience Structure(netsettlement.blogspot.com)
1 points by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago|0 comments
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
Absolutely. The ease and indeed hunger with which businesses went for this sort of language is evidence of how far removed they have become from reality. They're high on their own supply, if you will.
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
> AI is nothing but a tool for wealth transfer from what remains in the middle class to the top ultra wealthy. Refreshing to hear that stated so clearly. On your general point, I don't know if I feel the same optimism at this stage,
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by ayrtondesozzla 1y ago
PAIP RE4B