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by lukifer 7y ago
I'm reminded of the experiments where camp kids were randomly given blue and red shirts, and it took them less than an hour to form in-group/out-group dynamics and tribal loyalty based on shirts alone. The thing is, from a game-th
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> upset out of principle Every single moment of "oh, I'll just plug my phone into the AUX... oh. right." is not "out of principle". It's made especially stark when contrasted with other devices: right now I&
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While I favor "distributed all the things" from a political/ideological perspective, it indeed carries massive performance and utility tradeoffs, compared to centralized solutions, and is very difficult to sell to end users w
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by lukifer 7y ago
At times, Eric has quite the way with words; yet on Lex Fridman's podcast, he really struggled to communicate Geometric Unity in a way that's even slightly accessible to a layperson, despite Lex's patient prodding: https:&#x
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's often forgotten that the only real benefit of blockchains is that they are distributed; one can implement all the same functionality using centralized databases. What I find really surprising is that the government hasn't cre
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by lukifer 7y ago
> The entire US constitution is built on the premise that people have rights. As much as I'm near-absolutist on civil liberties, I think it's also valuable to recognize that the intrinsic good of individual rights are only one
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think the point is that they're upfront about it, so you can treat the communication as though it were public (which is a pretty good default assumption for communicating on the internet in general). I'm one of those people that
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How is the eye fatigue in general? How long can you go in a VR work session? For VR gaming (Oculus Rift), I start to experience mild discomfort after about 30min, which grows severe by 60min. It's hard to envision using VR for a full w
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by lukifer 7y ago
"Quack" is in the eye of the beholder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge I don't mean to paint a false equivalence between the likes of Icke, and the first person to say "maybe bl
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by lukifer 7y ago
We have a major "boy who cried wolf" problem with the media, and many of our truth-finding institutions. There've been enough instances in recent decades of arrogant incompetence and self-serving deception, that the public gr
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think Johann Hari has the gist right: in the vast majority of cases, depression is a signal from the body of some biological/social/emotional needs that aren't being met, rather than necessarily being an immutable medical c
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by lukifer 7y ago
Eric Weinstein also has a podcast of his own, the most recent episode of which features his original lecture detailing the Geometric Unity model he discussed on Rogan (though even the dumbed-down version flies right over my head): https:&#
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by lukifer 7y ago
Late reply, but yeah, this is roughly my view. I think the Naturalistic Fallacy label should be applied to absolutism: the old/"natural" thing must be good, the new/"unnatural" thing must be bad, both of which
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by lukifer 7y ago
That's a good question, I honestly don't know. My guess would be that MFI is essentially a checklist of all supported magnetic functionality, and therefore the experience Apple can promise in its marketing (ie, in addition to coll
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by lukifer 7y ago
Yeah, that's fair, I've been bitten by "not actually immutable" bugs before (works well enough for primitives, but not objects or arrays, which is most things in JS-land!). Libraries like Immutable.js can help bridge the
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by lukifer 7y ago
Immutability has been pretty hot of late, though still controversial. There are several popular languages which encourage or even force immutability (Elixir, Clojure). What sold me on the idea was Rich Hickey's talk, "The Value of
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Disappointing, but makes sense, thanks for sharing.
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I've long wondered what the real-world impact would be of a Carrington Event [0] in the 21st century. If we're underprepared for "black swan" pandemic events, I suspect we're even more so for solar flare / sola
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by lukifer 7y ago
In the same spirit as putting tape over the webcam, I'd love it if someone found a solution for putting a tiny magnet in exactly the right spot to force-disable the microphone while the lid is open. :) I hope you're right, and I&#
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by lukifer 7y ago
> left/right, authoritarian/libertarian--and their cross-products are cognitive traps No dispute. It's a classic leaky-abstraction problem; some models can be helpful in reasoning, but they're always imperfect at desc
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's a semantic argument, but I generally agree. I'd say authoritarianism is an extremist endpoint on a spectrum. It's become a dirty word for obvious reasons, but I'm using the term in a relatively value-neutral /
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by lukifer 7y ago
I find it curious that in our current political climate / party system, liberals seem to be more okay with mandatory lockdown procedures, whereas conservatives are pushing back. The latter may be partially due to prior ideological comm
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I don't think signaling need be cast through a cynical lens. A great deal of signaling is explicitly honest signaling , expending resources to demonstrate integrity and form stable trust bonds.
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I wonder if Jaron Lanier has played one of these? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1BBbvrEYA
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Granted. I mean, strictly speaking, we can't prove that the gravitational constant won't change tomorrow. :) But I would like a substantial enough body of evidence from competent and disinterested assessment(s) so that our societi
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Cool, thanks for those details. I'm certainly not succumbing to any sort of naturalistic fallacy, or any illusion that plastic is in an intrinsically unique category compared to other products. I'm more operating from a general Pr
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> According to Bittner’s research, some BPA-free products actually released synthetic estrogens that were more potent than BPA. I don't know if that means that "BPA-free" is often deceptive advertising, or it's referr
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The other thing I wonder about is all the extra crap on nearly all bottles: glue and stickers and wrappers and ink. I suspect some/most of what I put into recycling just ends up in a landfill anyway. And what kills me is, if our E2E su
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Plastics in general make me nervous. I watched a talk from an endocrinologist that many plastics and their byproducts can bind to chemical receptors, throwing off the production and ratios of various hormones and neurotransmitters. We made
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Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus! Trilogy". I read it as an arrogantly close-minded teenager, and it shocked my brain open, planting seeds of heretical ideas and omni-directional agnosticism that blossomed over the course o

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