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by hosh 4y ago
People get attached to things, including urban living. I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish with rewriting it from the perspective of travel. That is pretty much how I feel about travel and transport infrastructure too. Some cult
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by hosh 4y ago
That is presuming that the supply of blemished foods gets completely used up by food processors, and that’s not true. https://www.usda.gov/foodlossandwaste/faqs
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by hosh 4y ago
I know there are people who see it this way and feel like this. It presumes a couple things: - that intelligent thought (or in other belief structures, spirit, consciousness, etc) are the only thing of value worth propogating - that by esca
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by hosh 4y ago
I think nothing will work without some kind of change to the way of life. Urban living has taken people away from the land, so there is this illusion that we don’t have to participate in the ecology. Like water infrastructure, people growin
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by hosh 4y ago
Food is thrown away because grocery stores want to sell uniform looking produce with no blemishes, and consumers came to expect that. That is the largest reason they get sent to the landfill, with growers have been sending it there before t
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by hosh 4y ago
It’s not always about efficiency. Sometimes, it is about resilience, anti-fragility, and food source locality. And maximizing efficiency tends to lead to trade off in those other areas.
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by hosh 4y ago
When I first heard of the concept of things like vertical farming, or shipping container farming, or even farm bots. I thought those were a great ideas. That tech like this will solve for food problems, such as urban blight. Back then, I wa
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by hosh 4y ago
I feel the same. I don’t have the same kind of enthusiasm now as I do a kid. I’ll also say, I think LLMs are different than bitcoin. It has its own killer app, and it has tremendous social impact, not necessarily positive. If anything, cryp
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by hosh 4y ago
I argue that I don’t think those questions about looms have been adequately explored, and we’re still paying for that even as another wave of innovations roll in. It’s broader than simply, that people lose jobs to automation. A much bigger
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by hosh 4y ago
I think Search was such a strong engineering feat that sold itself as a product, that they never had to develop the product chops that other tech companies had to. I'm also thinking of Waymo, and the disciplined way they went about dev
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by hosh 4y ago
Reminds me of what happened with Xerox PARC
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by hosh 4y ago
The prompt injection methods reminds me a lot of hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming techniques used for belief and behavioral modification. Humans also mitigate the problems of prompt injection by cooperation, consensus, and differen
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by hosh 4y ago
Not the UK spelling — a typo.
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I had been thinking of ideas such as memory compaction (summerize things), or using the LLM to translate into an execution language for the automation.
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by hosh 4y ago
You mean like Strategos? I experimented with building in something like that into RPG mechanic. It's not so simple as modelling "fog of war" as uncovering terrain like in real-time strategy games, but rather, perception roll
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by hosh 4y ago
Even with modern technologies and the surfeit of information, it's still not a perfect-information situation. If the cosmos is a computational engine, only the cosmos has the possibility of perfect-information. Everything else is a rep
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by hosh 4y ago
This reminds me of this beautiful story I heard. I don't remember from where (probably a memoir of a shamanistic practitioner). This story took place somewhere in Africa, among a people whose custom and practice was that when someone k
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by hosh 4y ago
I disagree, but I also respect your position and where you are coming from with this. As a note, the Meiji-era government thought the practice was anachronistic and depraved. They criminalized self-mummification. The last successful practit
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by hosh 4y ago
There's this fun little article here proposing the spider web as an external extension of intelligence for the spider: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-2... I think it's worth distinguish
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by hosh 4y ago
I am aware of the point the commentor was trying to make, and I disagreed with it. While there is wisdom in that kind of innocence, in this case, the best we can say is that this gut check points to a course or action is right for you . Ho
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by hosh 4y ago
That's interesting you bring up this point, because it opens up a whole can of worms: - Why is suicide bad? - Why is there a presumption that this is your one and only life? - Why is there a presumption that life is made to be enjoyed?
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by hosh 4y ago
Yeah. That indicates "mental illness" is not about the mental well-being of the person, but how much negative societal impact that person has with the people around them.
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by hosh 4y ago
My understanding is that, after some realizations of impermanence, fundamental suffering, and no-self, something like this isn't insane. If anything, the way people treat themselves and others in ordinary life, the kind of mental gymna
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by hosh 4y ago
Interesting. How would that square with the psychological terms of cognitive empathy and affective empathy?
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by hosh 4y ago
I am not sure I buy that (empathy leads to xenophobia), so I’d have to think about that some more. I learned this from a particular Buddhist teaching — what someone want is not necessarily the same as what someone needs. It takes wisdom to
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by hosh 4y ago
That’s an interesting story. I think the key thing missing here is the notion of “well-being”. When designing with well-being in mind (of end-user, community, society, ecology), then sympathy, empathy, and compassion all makes more sense. (
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by hosh 4y ago
Huh. On the face of it, the way Chopra defines these are fairly simple, yet powerful way to make sense of this. … but, I am not sure it is complete. For example, the way Chopra defined sympathy and empathy is the way psychologists define co
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by hosh 4y ago
Everyone have different needs. For us, OTP on top of pre-emptive lightweight threads and a REPL in production is a huge winner for troubleshooting, finding performance bottlenecks, and reliability.
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I just tried this on questions I had about archery and bow design. It was immediately useful in highlighting and summarizing sources into something coherent while citing sources for deeper study. On the other hand, when I asked it to tell m
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by hosh 4y ago
Three Sisters pattern has been generalized as a “guild”, with beans fulfilling the function of a nitrogen fixer growing in the vine canopy layer (using the sturdy corn stalks). Knowing that, wouldn’t you substitute beans with a different ni

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