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by bsedlm 5y ago
> It just means I learnt a new fact. and that you're comfortably within a fact-based frame (perhaps "meta-frame" is more appropiate). Which is a very effective frame which enables cooperation with millions of others but no
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I'm not so paranoid, my reasoning has more mundane justifications. A drive to secrecy that begins with protecting trade secrets. And it is not even nessesary to imagine a drive (or intention). It just so happens that spreading knowled
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> For many decades, research on effects on living tissue of nano-currents and varying electromagnetic fields was effectively forbidden in the US. Trying to pursue it led to canceled grants, dis-invitation to conferences, and denial of te
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I wonder how different is this from a super-scaled brute-force approach? this reinforces my suspicion (as I try to understand it) that the AI's main contribution is auto-categorizing (some form of compression which resembles understand
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> The brilliant ones are so driven that they will often succeed without assistance. but brilliance for truly novel things is usually only revealed in retrospect. Might as well say "the ones who succeeded are driven and brilliant bec
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sounds a lot like what VCs are already doing, except they're interested in business, not big breakthroughs
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> Why does (consumer) monitor tech always seem to lag TV tech by a few years? because there's more money to be made selling TVs than monitors? consequentely, it's TV manufacturers pushing the entire display maker industry ahead
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It reminiscent of when I bought a blu-ray and I couldn't watch them because of DRM; as I had already downloaded that show I didn't really care, but those disks are pure waste. Now that I think about it, the physical disks feel lik
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by bsedlm 5y ago
no tool can organize your thoughts for you. all these tools only allow you to store/record them. the tools do not provide the organization.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> There must be some challenge here that isn't immediately obvious the challenge is profit maximization, this to emphasize it is not a technical challenge (earlier versions of maps were good at this)
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I highly doubt they shut it down, they probably just closed off public access
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> Aging is certainly a problem that needs to be solved by that logic, childhood is also a problem that needs to be solved. I have to get metaphysical to argue against the mindset, but IMO the origin of seeing aging as a problem stems fro
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> nothing in this article made me question individualism as being a strong counter to surveillance. as I understood it, that has nothing to do with the point of the article. On that level, I'd say the point of the article is how bot
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> inflate a handful of unremarkable ideas. some of these ideas you swiftly qualified as unremarkable are: freedom, liberty, privacy, and individuality.
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it's just that now, your nosey neighbors softly keeping an eye on you are not limited by the geography of neighborhoods. it's now limited by the scaling capabilities of the entire internet (i.e. unlimited)
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but it's more complicated that "makes greedy people rich" this "greedy people" are humans embedded in social circles too. Many are in situations (social circumstances) in which they are not really free to not be gre
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backup? this is a crimial violation of NFT owner's rights!! /sarcasm
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well, my answer is theoretical. My own experience is similar to yours: "your team is no longer following scrum in a mad-rush attempt to deliver the deadline." and then everything gets even worse
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> Nor are we free of conflict. The traumas of the achievement-subject are not those of the Freudian age, where we repressed our desires out of a sense of social duty, compulsively washed our hands, and dreamt about our mothers. No, the m
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> How can we achieve things with no burnout or ego-driven mindset? I ask myself something quite similar but coming from a different place (so to say). How can I practice detachment (buddhism inspired letting go) while simultaneously acco
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by bsedlm 5y ago
they set boundaries? i.e. the set explicit limits to activities, provide structure, make responsibilities clear from the get-go, ...
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by bsedlm 5y ago
As far as I've understood so far, back when calculus was invented people would think about it using infinitesimals. But nowadays it is taught without mentioning them; in short, caluclus is now taught emphasizing the ability to use the
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> It took centuries for calculus to become as easy as it is today. it's easy to use, but it's (IMO) even harder to understand correctly than before. I'm referring to a mathematical-level understanding; i.e. you could re-in
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by bsedlm 5y ago
but the substance which is owned (the property) is not material; yet here we are pretending like it is so that people can 'earn a living' for selling the work done by computers.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
Intellectual Property is a dumb idea, a legacy of thousands of years of exclusive (physically unique) markets of goods (i.e. making copies is expensive). Digital artifacts require a new non-exclusive property market scheme (to be determined
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by bsedlm 5y ago
this is not an ellaboration, but a mere pointer based on one example: the sitcom Friends is sublty anti-intellectual and it came out around that time.
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new!? I'm sure they went into this "business" since Eric Schmidt took over.
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I suppose their "utility" is that they can be traded.
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> Except they really don’t. now that I've thought about it for a bit longer, I think you're right. > I should not be able to copy-paste the digital artifact no, because then the NFT would be exactly the same as the digital a
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by bsedlm 5y ago
because NFTs are built in (and for) digital artifacts. In the digital world the actual "artifact" (the object of art) is digital. NFTs 'solve' this problem by not caring about the fact that the artwork can (and will) be

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