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by haswell 3y ago
Fellow home schooled person and autodidact here. Our obligation to society is ongoing. It’s not as if the only benefit we enjoy is the education system that we did not utilize. A system of lesser consequence than the human knowledge the sys
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by haswell 3y ago
> I think it is an important and insightful distinction, if you are curious to engage. Can you clarify which thing is important/insightful? I want to make sure I’m understanding your comment. I should also clarify that I do think
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by haswell 3y ago
> The operator of the tool tells it what to do The fact that you can now tell a tool what to do illustrates my point. You can’t “tell” your paintbrush what to do, and what your paintbrush does is wholly based on your personal ability
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by haswell 3y ago
> Yes but it is "just a tool" In your mind, what distinguishes something that is "just a tool" from something that is "more than just a tool"? To me, this framing is just not useful. It doesn't tell m
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by haswell 3y ago
> Midjourney is just a tool I’ve seen this framing and don’t agree with it. What does it mean for something to be “just a tool”? I think most people are trying to indicate that the tool itself is not of consequence, and that the issue
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by haswell 3y ago
Good call. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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by haswell 3y ago
I highly recommend reading the book “Flow” if you’re looking for that thing that makes every day enjoyable. In addition to exploring why people love games and other high skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to turn
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by haswell 3y ago
> reading is simply the replaying of another's thoughts And as it turns out, replaying someone else’s thoughts can be highly rewarding. It transmits ideas and satiates the brain’s need for new information. It helps ideas spread, a
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by haswell 3y ago
> but it is the antithesis of science to repeat that 'scientists say' something without knowing which scientists say them and why There are a few issues mixed up in this. First, we all hold core beliefs about the world that w
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by haswell 3y ago
Are people’s opinions being dismissed here? I find it unsurprising that many people have no direct awareness of the underlying science behind basic things. That lack of awareness is not an indictment of the science or even the unaware perso
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by haswell 3y ago
Sorry, I think I must have really misinterpreted/misunderstood the comment. I’ll see if I can explain why I interpreted it that way because I’d like to understand what you mean. > > 2. Legislation won’t happen until enough peopl
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by haswell 3y ago
My point is that RCS exists essentially to “paper over the badness” of SMS. So does iMessage. And implementing support for RCS at this stage of the game is Apple investing resources in fixing their SMS problem, using an imperfect solution t
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by haswell 3y ago
Apple has explicitly chosen to keep this feature gap for the purpose of locking customers into the ecosystem and forcing people to switch. This is well documented. I agree that users are exerting pressure. But those users don’t exist in a v
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by haswell 3y ago
> Android users cry about being excluded, but the rest of us don't even think about android users. While I think you’ve illustrated the point that the issue is not just a technical one, I’d rather not be counted in that group. I’m
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by haswell 3y ago
> It's not Apple's fault google half assed messaging on android for a decade+. It’s also clear that Apple was never interested in pushing for an industry solution to this problem either. These two companies are in the unique
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by haswell 3y ago
> Apple is not going to sink (very expensive) engineer time into papering over its badness Upcoming support for RCS is arguably doing exactly that. They didn’t seem interested until they started receiving regulatory pressure, though.
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by haswell 3y ago
I think we’re saying the same thing re: your 2nd and 3rd points. WiFi is an interesting one, and some providers already provide SMS over WiFi via the “WiFi calling” feature. It’s certainly more convenient (or at least involves less setup) w
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by haswell 3y ago
There’s been too much focus on the color of the bubble, or security, or specific features. But the real issue boils down to human in/out group dynamics. Being excluded from group chats or having people get frustrated by the lone Androi
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by haswell 3y ago
> I can demand legislation to encourage/require behavior that I myself won’t practice in absence of said legislation. By this logic, the primary basis on which we make decisions is whatever provides a personal advantage. It’s an u
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by haswell 3y ago
You caught that before my quick edit - I replaced “each” with “most”, but I agree with your amendment. It’s the one thing we can each absolutely start doing today. And the choice to do so is a meaningful one that changes each of us and the
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by haswell 3y ago
I’m disagreeing with the premise that making conscious choices about what I purchase can be reduced to “voting with my wallet”, or that we can conclude it “doesn’t help much” based only on a limited outlook on what helps i.e. there are many
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by haswell 3y ago
> individual change is both near-impossible and pointless. I disagree, strongly, for two reasons. 1. Individual change is the only thing most of us can do 2. Legislation won’t happen until enough people care enough to demand it For leg
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by haswell 3y ago
I suspect the origin is Proverbs 16:27 - "Idle hands are the devil's workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece." I'm currently on a work sabbatical, and while it has been great, I reached a point when I had to start activel
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by haswell 3y ago
> We will have so much more time to be human in a world ran by AI. What does it mean “to be human”? What will it mean to be human when the things that quintessentially make up the human condition are being handled by an AI? People talk
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by haswell 3y ago
> Someone please explain how a social network is supposed to succeed when it's invite-only? Hype alone won't carry it. It may be that the industry has evolved to a degree that this is no longer viable (I also don’t know if I
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by haswell 3y ago
> but the key difference here is you are not just using your computer/smartphone, you are using Apple's computers too ... you can justify that any way you want, but at the end of the day, that's stealing. I think that bo
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by haswell 3y ago
> How so many HN readers can justify flagrant misuse of private API's and servers as some sort of liberatory move So that I better understand your position, would you feel differently if Beeper Mini was just a GitHub repo hosting
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by haswell 3y ago
Having spent quite a bit of time on the road, it’s usually pretty easy to spot the difference. That is if you even notice the stealth campers (to your point). But that’s really the original point - most people don’t notice the car dwelling
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by haswell 3y ago
The social media van life trend is one thing. People choosing to live in their cars for financial reasons is another thing. Occasionally the two groups intersect, but there are plenty of cases where someone is living in their van/car s
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by haswell 3y ago
> If people are about to “amuse themselves to death” then that is because they are leading an unbalanced life in some way, like being overworked or not having their needs met This is essentially the point I’m making, i.e. “we're h

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