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Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong(scottaaronson.com)
125 points by gnosis 13y ago|55 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
"Most human beings spend >99% of the time in their normal state of consciousness rather than a mushroom state of consciousness. So from a practical perspective, the question whether the insights actually produced something tangible
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by gnosis 13y ago
"That which does not kill me makes me stronger." It's possible to learn quite a lot from bad trips. Some would argue that they're more valuable than good trips, where you may not learn much at all. Bad trips can involv
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by gnosis 13y ago
"I can claim that our ordinary state of consciousness is the most legitimate one (the one that is closest to reality, if there is such thing as objective reality), or at the very least the most useful one - otherwise we would have evo
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by gnosis 13y ago
"So were the notes worth anything?" You mean were the worth anything when considered from the perspective of the ordinary state of consciousness? Clearly in one particular altered state of consciousness they were considered wort
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by gnosis 13y ago
One thing that could help with anxiety is starting with very low doses. It's possible to take so little that there are no obvious effects. This is called a "sub-threshold" dose, and is also known as a "microdose".
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by gnosis 13y ago
I've heard this advice myself; and have disregarded it. It's possible to see oneself age, to be disgusted with one's own face, to see someone else's face looking back at you, or be faced with other unpleasant sights or
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by gnosis 13y ago
This sounds like the author took a low to moderate dose of mushrooms. It's possible to have much more profound experiences (both positive and negative) than what was described in this article. I can recommend a book called "The
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by gnosis 13y ago
A little syntactic sugar (in zsh): function calc { print $1 | bc -l } Then: calc "(1+2)*3" 9 zsh actually comes with its own little calculator: zcalc "(1+2)*3" 1> 9 2> Among other
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by gnosis 13y ago
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
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by gnosis 13y ago
Jimmy Wales did not build Wikipedia. Thousands upon thousands of unpaid volunteers did. As for Howard Roark, who is supposed to epitomize Ayn Rand's "virtue of selfishness" ideal, I don't remember him being any kind of
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by gnosis 13y ago
There was a very interesting article[1] recently about the epidemiological link between leaded gasoline and crime. [1] - http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
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by gnosis 13y ago
There some competing trends in the *nix world today. On the one hand, there are some huge, monolithic packages like Xorg that have split in to many smaller, more independent packages. On the other hand, we have something like systemd absorb
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by gnosis 13y ago
"she doesn't need the money, she is one of the richest women in the world." Never underestimate what the rich and super rich will do to get more money. Does Warran Buffet need more money? Yet he's still trying to make
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by gnosis 13y ago
Way back in 1984 (starting with Neuromancer ), William Gibson wrote about an orbiting space station owned by the super-rich.[1] (WARNING: Spoilers below) "Tessier-Ashpool is a fictional family appearing in William Gibson's Spraw
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by gnosis 13y ago
This looks nice except for having to depend on your servers as a middle man. Any chance you could release the code as Free or open source so that its users can use it standalone on their own machines?
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Puppet SSL Explained(masterzen.fr)
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
"google's business strategy is to steadily erode the privacy of all human beings and monetize it at each step" I wonder if most Googlers have faced up to this reality yet? Or if they simply don't care, or think the mon
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by gnosis 13y ago
And if you can't afford to donate money, maybe you could donate some of your skills and time, or help spread the word about the good work they're doing.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No, because other considerations (money, prestige, technology, perks) are more important to me than ethics.
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Poll: Have you ever refused work on ethical grounds?
2 points by gnosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 13y ago
Yes. There are entire industries I won't even consider working for because of ethical reasons.
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by gnosis 13y ago
Yes. There are certain types of jobs I won't consider because of ethical reasons.
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by gnosis 13y ago
Yes. I have refused specific job or work offers because of ethical reasons.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No. because I've just never thought about ethics in relation to work before.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No, because the issue of ethics has just never come up.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No, because I don't care.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No, because I don't have any ethics.
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by gnosis 13y ago
No, because I prefer to do unethical work.
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by gnosis 13y ago
According to the comments in that thread, this issue was fixed in GNU grep 2.7 (my system currently has grep 2.14 on it, so this must have been some time ago).

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