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by lapcat 3mo ago
> who has the time and the energy to read a long novel today? Anyone who has the time and energy to spend on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, or for that matter, anyone who has the time and energy to spend watching T
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by lapcat 3mo ago
Your selective quote left off the part that made it a fairer comparison. "Only 38 read a novel or short story" was a follow-up to "fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022." That&#x27
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by lapcat 3mo ago
No, I was reponding to "It explains a hell of a lot." You would have had the same problem if you had said, "Look up Napolean. It explains a lot." The problem is that it explains nothing. Neither Plato nor Napolean helps
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> I think you're reading my comment too literally. Well, I agree that the concept of philosopher-king is applied by people nonliterally to Thiel, though mainly because those people are ignorant of Plato. But if we interpret your com
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> I think the quote doesn't say what you think it says. You still haven't said what you think it means! > Wittgenstein loved philosophy I think the phrase "loved philosophy" is way too vague to be informative. >
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by lapcat 3mo ago
I don't think it does explain anything. I've seen no evidence that Thiel takes any particular inspiration from Plato. Rather, Thiel seems to be much more focused on Christianity and libertarianism, and those would be the sources o
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." I'm not sure why you're quoting the quote that I just quoted. I was hoping for an analysis. > If you view the story of Wi
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by lapcat 3mo ago
What do you make of quotes such as the following? The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose. A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about”. The problems, are solved, not by giv
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by lapcat 3mo ago
Please read and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's funny how many years I had to spend in philosophy grad school to become "intellectually lazy".
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> “Where are they, the great next philosophers, the equivalents of Kant or Wittgenstein or even Aristotle?” the DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis wondered on a podcast last year. According to (later) Wittgenstein, philosophy is basicall
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> This seems in line with what the article says about learning? No? Children who learn multiple languages don't necessarily become adults who continue to learn more languages beyond what they learned in childhood, so the analogy wit
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by lapcat 3mo ago
From the article: "the earlier you speak them, the better" I don't think that this quite matches the notion that learning is the brain's way of exercising, if learning/exercising as a child prevents aging more than
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have an impact on the brain, such as lifestyle and social engagement. Social engagement has been shown in many ways to be crucial to health.
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by lapcat 3mo ago
First paragraph: "When emails overwhelmed me" IMO this is the problem with the standard App Store business model: free with In-App Purchase. In that situation, the vast majority of people who email you are not customers but rath
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by lapcat 3mo ago
The Wi-Fi password is stored in NVRAM. This has been true for many years, nothing new to macOS 26.
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by lapcat 3mo ago
> I think Gmail seems to actually just keep that header rather than nuking it. I think that's common among email providers.
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by lapcat 3mo ago
It's not a Gmail thing: > The reason why my IP address is visible is because Apple Mail sends emails with SMTP. Unless you use a proxy, your IP address is visible to an SMTP server, just like it's visible to an HTTP server when
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by lapcat 3mo ago
Has anyone seen Protect Mail Activity get re-enabled after you've disabled it? I wrote about that a few days ago: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/6/6.html
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by lapcat 4mo ago
> The point you’re making is that AI is an intrinsically bad technology Not really. I said, "The technology itself may be neat." There's a larger societal question: how many resources should we devote to this technology? T
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by lapcat 4mo ago
This is not a serious response to my comment. Did farming implements and looms make food and clothing more expensive and scarce? No, they did the opposite, making both more readily available. So your comment is a disanalogy.
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by lapcat 4mo ago
Yes and no. Relatively speaking, MacBook Neo is still quite cheap, especially since iPad and MacBook Air received even greater price increases. And Apple's competitors are surely experiencing the same component shortages.
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by lapcat 4mo ago
Can we now all admit that AI is bad? The technology itself may be neat, but the side effects are killing us. How can AI make computing easier when ironically it's now significantly harder to get computers? AI is driving price increases
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by lapcat 4mo ago
Curiously, the Mac App Store sandbox has a com.apple.security.network.client entitlement that a developer must justify to Apple, whereas the iOS App Store does not, allowing unrestricted access to the internet.
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by lapcat 4mo ago
Humans can already find new medicines and bugs in code. We didn't need AI to find the Covid vaccines, for example. > The analysis that I want is on a studied cost/value basis somehow. If something is immoral, do the ends justif
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by lapcat 4mo ago
> I think it's worth understanding the technology so we can have informed strategies for how to best regulate it. There's a significant difference between understanding a technology and using a technology. We can understand how
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by lapcat 4mo ago
Fair enough. I have no criticism for people whose employers are forcing it on employees. I blame the employers there. But the OP didn't sound like one of the reluctant.
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by lapcat 4mo ago
> There's a lot of issues, ranging over technical, cultural, environmental, and moral problems. But there's also obvious value. To say otherwise tells me you haven't actually tried to make use of these tools. Why would you
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by lapcat 4mo ago
> That objection applies to the other options as well. True. > I like the market because it lets me make more choices of my own. What about when it doesn't? Markets consolidate. They form monopolies and duopolies. The only counte
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by lapcat 4mo ago
> and read time If anything, I would recommend a word count instead. Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.

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