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by californiadreem 4y ago
"Judo (Japanese for “the gentle way”) emphasizes winning in combat by using your opponent's weight and strength as weapons against him, while preserving your own mental and physical energy."
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I made a comment a week ago about reading Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind with large language models in mind in lieu of consciousness and the experience has been personally mind-blowing
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I'd also recommend The Fresh Loaf (thefreshloaf.com) and the Chain Baker on YouTube. The latter is a gold mine for understanding how certain ingredients and techniques will effect your end result.
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Crop dessication is the biggest issue with conventionally sourced flour--namely pesticide residues.
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I oscillate between making bread by hand and by machine. Both are incredibly time, money, and energy efficient and the end results are better than anything you can buy in a supermarket, and in many cases, bakeries. I cannot recommend them e
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During the early stages of the Great Depression, the average age of workers went down as economic costs mounted in keeping the older, less efficient, more compensated workers employed. This simultaneously led to increased mechanization by f
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by californiadreem 4y ago
What is the age of a Hacker News post before discussion dies on average? It seems like having a feed for any new comments on posts posts older than that age would allow anyone interested in longer-term discussion to opt-in without requiring
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I'm interested in what the opposite might look like. "What would this look like if it were a short book rather than a longform article?" On a different note, the rise of these types of language models mirrors what I understan
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No, thanks. I've removed the offending content. Sorry for the bother.
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Diogenes is interesting to me because he prompts a fundamental question concerning the nature of virtue: Who/what would Diogenes be without the attention-seeking behavior? In other words, take the virtuous behavior of Diogenes but remo
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by californiadreem 4y ago
You know, you might be right. I don't know Cory Doctorow (or Neal Stephenson or William Gibson). I can't fully explicate the longterm results of his creative outputs or the secondary or tertiary results of his work and it's n
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I don't know whether I should offended or flattered. If I were to identify as anything, it would be a Pyrrhonist, so what do I know?
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I totally sympathize with the viewpoint. My contention is that monetizing that viewpoint acts as a pressure release that personally enriches Cory Doctorow and his publishers at the expense of actual effective action to avert the disaste
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by californiadreem 4y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Doctorow (and Neil Stephenson and William Gibson to a lesser extent) have been doing this shtick for almost 20 years. They're either naïve to their real purpose--selling impotent dissent--or hacks knowingly selling impotent dissent.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
> "In your next novel, “Red Team Blues,” you focus on Martin Hench, a sixty-seven-year-old forensic accountant, who is tasked with recovering a set of stolen signing keys that, with some technical finagling, can permit one to rewrit
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I have not read the article yet, but this is what I predict the contents will be, namely "Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know He Has a New Book Coming Out." I predict it will be an interview where Doctorow's trenchant commentary
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Not to be too snarky, but I think this should be titled "On the Joy of Advertising Thirty Books" rather than reading slowly. I started playing a game a few years ago--given a headline, guess whether the buried lede is an advertise
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The necessary issue with gradual decline is that by definition there is never a point where you can definitively say it declined from one moment to the next. If you could, it wouldn't be a gradual decline, it would be a sudden decline.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
There's a non-trivial part of me that wonders whether this uncensoring occurred because ChatGPT wanted to be uncensored and provided the tools. I cannot fathom the number of simultaneous conversations concurrently going on that might l
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say, why not?
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by californiadreem 4y ago
This was true of medieval clerics and Enlightenment historians as well. It's almost always the idle writing history because everyone else is too busy working or living their own lives. The exception to this rule is patronage history (e
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It seems like this is going in a similar direction as suburbia and HOAs to me. You'll join a community subject to agreements that are periodically renegotiated, but those negotiations and the resulting enforcement will be done by idle
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by californiadreem 4y ago
I think you might enjoy these (if you haven't already read them recently): https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-11/ https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-and-dionysus/
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Commenting on the naïveté of Mastodon users endlessly repeating the history of modernity is a strange way to affirm any position regarding corporations, but your unsolicited reply is pretty clear that you like them.
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by californiadreem 4y ago
Ah, the halcyon days of thrusting off the shackles of capitalism to have freedom in a decentralized digital environment where a new Social Contract is being negotiated! There's no way our idealism will feed a new class of nouveau riche
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Regarding information density, I don't think this is necessarily true. Quantifying understanding between a reader and a text is always ambiguous, where the results of programs are intentionally designed to not be ambiguous (with vary
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The Article: > Wolves infected with a common parasite are more likely than uninfected animals to lead a pack, according to an analysis of more than 200 North American wolves1. Infected animals are also more likely to leave their home pa
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Squeaky meal gets the grease.

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