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by jes5199 6y ago
we often discuss AI in terms of “smartness” which is thought to be inherent to the architecture. But maybe we should talk in terms of “experience”. When will AI surpass human beings in quantity/quality of lived experiences?
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by jes5199 6y ago
I wonder what about Zuckerberg, a wealthy white man who went to an expensive school, makes him think that this is a good idea
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by jes5199 6y ago
I think they must be overstating the thing about headphones being unprecedented. Episode 1 of the sitcom “Dobie Gillis”, from 1959, introduces Bob Denver’s character by showing him listening to a transistor radio using an earpiece
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by jes5199 6y ago
hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language? It seems like you could construct a meta-linguistic sentence by writing a phrase in one language and choo
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by jes5199 6y ago
you know that feeling when you worked at a company, and you tried to push it in a certain direction, but the powers that be made it impossible to really get to the core issues? yeah.
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by jes5199 6y ago
blockbuster eventually had the same problem as the netflix home screen. I’d spend an hour slowly browsing through the space, and finally go home empty-handed
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by jes5199 6y ago
that’s at least all in the same order of magnitude! only a couple years ago it was swinging much more wildly than that
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by jes5199 6y ago
it looks to me like HOP is mostly teaching traditional LISP concepts. I could write those same functions in Javascript, and they'd be more readable
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by jes5199 6y ago
huh. I spent a couple years writing perl professionally, I guess that was around 2006, and I couldn't agree less. Its object system is so bizarre compared to any other language - it's like it doesn't really have an object sys
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by jes5199 6y ago
yeah, this is the one I use. I think of it as the “default” now - it’s been a while since I worked on a team that used anything else, I guess that means it’s popular with small startups
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by jes5199 6y ago
I never felt like I needed one but recently I’ve found that when writing larger apps, React is really worth it
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by jes5199 6y ago
this is a lot like Wiio’s Laws “Communication usually fails, except by accident.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws also, I can’t remember the source but someone wrote that if a person says “I understand” t
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by jes5199 6y ago
I think the icons are a little less legible. Not a lot, but just enough to wonder if I've screwed up my browser's zoom level whenever I see them
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by jes5199 6y ago
companies who ask their employees to take risks with their health, without a compelling reason, are destroying any sense of goodwill or morale. In the short term, that change might be invisible, but over the long-term it destroys businesses
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by jes5199 6y ago
Hanson gave it that name in the 90s but it’s implied in Drake’s equations - I think people in the 1960s were aware of the subtext
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by jes5199 6y ago
I’ve heard that the Drake equation was originally (?) intended to be a parable that makes you think about whether our civilization is likely to destroy itself before making a noticeable impact on the universe, in order to promote nuclear
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by jes5199 6y ago
working code can always be refactored to meet conventions
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by jes5199 6y ago
there’s a nonprofit called “Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty” where you can buy carbon offset credits that are implemented by paying impoverished people in various parts of the world to reforest their land. I’d love to see a comparison o
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by jes5199 6y ago
I don’t think it is possible to test the difference. Any situation that looks like free will can also be explained by determinism. The only evidence is the subjective experience of choice, which is invisible to science
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by jes5199 6y ago
That's the most prevalent modern Christian view but many traditions have some version of monopsychism, where the many souls are a manifestation of the one God, or Allah, or Brahman, or Buddha-nature
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by jes5199 6y ago
I guess what gets me is that there is a hidden premise in scientific materialism that _nothing_ is alive and _nothing_ is connected, because it starts with inanimate fundamental parts and tries to build up to reality. From a psychedelic per
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by jes5199 6y ago
I think part of is that it changes your sense of what "disconnected from reality" means. It's not like a dream where you wake up and say _ohh that was a dream_. It's more like, _ohh my whole reality is a dream, all the t
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by jes5199 6y ago
at least sometimes they've done blind experiments with an "active placebo" - give the subject something like Ritalin that makes you feel like you've taken a drug, but no psychedelic effect
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by jes5199 6y ago
awesome! I think I'll try using Esprit instead of C in my next ESP project
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by jes5199 6y ago
I'm impressed! ESP32 is really the swiss-army-knife of small processors. How much support is there for getting access to features like bluetooth or I2C from Clojure?
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by jes5199 6y ago
defund, demilitarize, disband
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by jes5199 6y ago
no, the mining difficulty self-adjusts, so the supply is only increased for a very brief time
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by jes5199 6y ago
Heliogen https://heliogen.com/ Prometheus Fuels https://www.prometheusfuels.com/ C2CNT https://www.c2cnt.com/
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by jes5199 6y ago
this is happening! Check out “Empty Planet: the Shock of Global Population Decline”. They predict a peak in _global_ population around 2050. The same cultural change is happening world-wide: people are having fewer children, and they’re hav
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by jes5199 6y ago
the modern web just doesn’t do that, though. I don’t think I’ve seen a clickable polygon in the last 15 years

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