bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Yes, this is the curse of specialization due to ever more intellectual works in existence but the same amount of time per person. I think it's much better to learn in an integrated way, so history, art, science, politics, philosophy, t
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
What I think is mostly missing the mark is treating this as an expertise that you learn in college, i.e. straight out of high school you go to college and then do a PhD and you interact in a bubble of people who are the same way. And you tr
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
In part, but that wouldn't be enough. The value is that only/mostly people with certain skills and talents have it.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Peterson was firmly within academia and he got famous by putting his academic lectures filmed at university online. It's not some other thing. He taught in prestigious institutions like Harvard and U of Toronto. To me it seems like you
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I don't want to defend humanities academia too much, but you could ask the same about pure math too. Of course the correctness of proofs is a checksum, but that doesn't answer which direction one should develop it or whether the t
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Where do you date that "STEM explosion"? The Scientific Revolution (Newton's time), or more the quantum and atomic age or the computer tech age or what? There were plenty of wars in the middle ages and the nobles and peasants
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
It was a fundamental confusion of cause and effect. People noted that the college educated earned more, so assumed that expanding college will confer that same status to all that obtain that pledge. But it inflated its value. Similarly if y
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Find a patron who finances it, as it always was. There never was a society that would fund everyone full time just for having neat fun chats. Alternatively take up a day job like everyone else and join a philosophy / arts / book c
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Lol that's like saying you can make a career out of your love of playing and releasing music. Sure, get to the end of the line. Or playing games and streaming it. Yes, a few make money that way. But theres a vast vast oversupply of peo
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I agree that this is very important. The flip side of that you will also have entrenched lazies who refuse to keep up with new knowledge, get comfy in their chair, plus grow a big ego etc. It's a tradeoff. You have to give breathing ro
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
How was it before then? Surely you can't expect that N PhDs minted by one doctoral advisor will each be able to take an equivalent spot at the same institution as the doctoral advisor. Or did people expect that? Unless the population i
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Another thing is this effect: https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/meta-knowledge-an... People will claim a lot of things but if there is no external "ground truth" to test against, people tend to overc
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Yes, but there was no social media, just MSN messenger on your PC at home, and you had to transfer the photos and videos from the SonyEricsson/Nokia phone via USB cable or bluetooth to the PC and then send via MSN, or send directly to
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I agree, this is context dependent. If the email clearly touches upon multiple topics and is separated into several questions, it can be better to answer point by point. Still, to me, ripping my message apart and inserting the comments feel
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
If you like Matrix, Memento, Truman Show, Black Mirror (San Junipero, Bandersnatch), Inception, Interstellar, 12 Monkeys etc. you may also like it. These are not necessarily thematically aligned but based on vibes they cluster near it for m
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Dissecting their email and interspersing your response, especially if expressing some disagreement, can come across as passive aggressive nitpicking, instead of taking in the whole message and charitable interpreting the entire intended mes
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Most people used to be illiterate a few generations ago and then only had a handful of books in the house, like the Bible and some other staples, and their letters were full of spelling mistakes, and clumsy writing and bad letter shapes. Th
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> Relatedly, having a long term archival might come as a bit creepy, even. In apps this happens too, but at least I can say something extremely controversial and delete it for both people a couple minutes later. Or send a "view once
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Do they still pay you the same amount?
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> lidar and accelerometers can't tell cold from hot, lumpy from smooth. Not those. There are other sensors. Tactile sensors exist. Lumpy and smooth can be distinguished. They are still rudimentary, but there is nothing fundamental b
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
Not the entire world but maybe enough of it. I mean, think about the batshit idea of raiway transport in Europe. Like trains sound nice in principle, sure, it works on the scale of a mine or a shipyard to move things around, but using that
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> it comes off as super invalidating. Once this is on the table, it's hard answer in a way that doesn't come across as being the asshole. But that's kind of my point. People tie identities and emotions to labels. It refra
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> but none of it should feel like politics to your typical "I hate politics" engineer [...] Who doesn't like to share the cool stuff they've done? Certainly many would prefer to just enter flow state and work on their
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
This is shallow. Game theory and coordination is the answer. Otherwise it's the same depth level as "if only the soldiers just stopped shooting at each other, the war would end".
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I'm not so sure. People also describe their visual experience such as if it was camera-like. A rectangle window out of their ead with colors, like a photo/painting. Perception and experience are very hard to describe. We constantl
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I found it a bit pretentious and name-dropping more than having a cogent point. AI is not simply going to take jobs where you just have to blabber stochastically. It can execute commands, call tools, write code etc. I think the author got c
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
I agree with most of this. Though it gets really conceptually murky what a mental illness is and the DSM diagnosis checklists are quite different from how diagnoses work in "body"-medicine. The psychiatrist blogger Scott Alexander
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
The gap in conceptual complexity to switch to databases is just way too high for most people. One lets them accomplish the business goal, the other does not.
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
MS Excel is much much much much more accessible to the normal office worker than MS Access. It's not even close. As a kid, most of us intuitively picked up Excel but Access was a mystery even with a teacher in computer class trying to
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by bonoboTP 1y ago
> Most other people would say, for example, there was a big brown table with metallic legs in the middle of the room, and the person that came in had a blue T-shirt. I would only take that seriously from thoughful, detail-oriented, intel

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