bobson381

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by bobson381 4mo ago
I'm with Alan Watts. It's consciousness all the way down, in a unified, Spinozan, sense. A rock feels rock like you feel you, just in rock ways. Tat Tvam Asi, in a way. It's useful for us to have the concept of separateness,
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by bobson381 4mo ago
in that case, hello, bat!
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by bobson381 4mo ago
You know what it would be like for you to imagine being a bat, but you don't know how it feels for a bat to be a bat, as "you" aren't.
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by bobson381 4mo ago
I have always liked the way that this paper frames the distinction and tension between the feeling of subjective experience and the "detached" rational scientific descriptive perspective that purports to be outside of that experie
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by bobson381 4mo ago
We are going to find out. See Limits to Growth.
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by bobson381 4mo ago
That is frustrating. Sounds like no way forward w/o basically forcing a crash via hard shutdown from a PDU.
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by bobson381 4mo ago
Could you get a kvm connected to a networked PDU with per-outlet control? Then a power cycle on the plug for the mac would accomplish the same thing. Or just use the network port on the PDU directly w/o kvm.
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by bobson381 4mo ago
a la https://xkcd.com/505/
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by bobson381 4mo ago
It's essentially the TVtropes Fascist but Inefficient, but it takes out the grunt work.[1] The other thing that comes to mind here is Brazil, the movie directed by Terry Gilliam - the inefficiency of the state is part of what makes it
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by bobson381 5mo ago
Advaita Vedanta or Alan Watts style looking - essentially the idea that there are no separate things or events, sort of like Whitehead's process philosophy. Trippy stuff and a little bit out there, but consistent with some other ways o
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by bobson381 6mo ago
I read and enjoyed the book " what is real" by Adam Becker that talks about this intersection between the philosophy of the day and its impact on what more considered valid interpretations of QM at the time and into the future. Th
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by bobson381 6mo ago
Hence the title and its hearkening back to seeing like a state - I would guess one of the author's related views is that a rigid, high-modern codification scheme will always miss the magic stuff that fills in the cracks. And you can&#x
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by bobson381 7mo ago
well we can stick planes in the upper atmosphere and sprinkle sulfur around to get some cooling, but it'll get worse before then. gonna be interesting.
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by bobson381 7mo ago
So I've been on a journey of discovering basically this - limits to growth - for the last few years. It's been .... an emotional roller coaster as someone living in the developed world. I'm following the work of Nate Hagens a
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by bobson381 7mo ago
This is like the functional ugly tier of buildings from "how buildings learn". Excellent stuff
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by bobson381 7mo ago
Sweet. Also, leaving work super early is 1800 hours? I need to reframe or nonprofit land has spoiled me rotten.
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by bobson381 7mo ago
This got a chuckle out of me, thanks for your thoroughness and I hope never to cross you
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by bobson381 8mo ago
So acquiring immunity to a lower-risk version of the service before it's ramped up? e.g. jumping on FB now as a new user is vastly different from doing so in 2014 - so while you might go through the same noob-patterms, you're doin
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by bobson381 8mo ago
...Does this person already have a human personal assistant that they are in the process of replacing with Clawdbot? Is the assistant theirs for work?
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by bobson381 9mo ago
Reminds me of >When I was a child I used to ask my mother—of course—all sorts of ridiculous questions that every child asks, and when she got bored with my questions she would say, “Darling, there are just some things we’re just not mean
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by bobson381 9mo ago
What I've always wondered, though, is whether that lack of precision is what allows for meaning to arise in the first place. In the gap between language and - this - .
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by bobson381 9mo ago
I do sometimes wonder if we will get "detailed enough" vector embeddings in LLMs to bring the grain of resolution down below human perception - like having enough bits to fully capture what's on tape in audio world. Maybe thi
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by bobson381 9mo ago
It's such a wonderful thing to be reminded of how silly it is to take language seriously. IMO it's prickles and goo[1] all the way down - and the prickles help us share meaning and exchange information, but there is no project of
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by bobson381 9mo ago
Weathering the knock-on effects of ecological overshoot, probably. It's going to be interesting.
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by bobson381 9mo ago
Nostalgia is the only remaining product tho
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by bobson381 9mo ago
Agreed. There are helpers and the helped, and it is a good thing to do both when you can.
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by bobson381 10mo ago
Net energy surplus had to end sometime, we have just decided to speed run it for some reason. Looking forward to sledding down the other side of the carbon pulse!
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by bobson381 11mo ago
make a cli router like openrouter that just accepts your args and passes them to whichvever one is leading at the moment? could be fun.
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by bobson381 1y ago
I'd get a t-shirt or something with that Operational Guidance statement on it
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by bobson381 1y ago
Linux box to Samsung TV here as well. It's awesome, best of both worlds. Stable Debian with Plasma DE in my case.

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