mirror_neuron

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by mirror_neuron 12d ago
As someone who is close to the aphantasic end of the spectrum: for me, it does not apply to audio. That difference is how I came to understand aphantasia better: I can very concretely hear sounds and music in my "mind's ear"
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by mirror_neuron 15d ago
Well said. I completely agree.
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by mirror_neuron 15d ago
I think there's a key difference of perspective hidden in your response. You're a business owner; you sell outcomes to your customers. Even if we suppose that skill atrophy is real, it's easy to see how that tradeoff would be
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by mirror_neuron 3mo ago
I still work like this, using Aider. What do you mean when you say you “miss” it? (Why not just keep using it?)
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by mirror_neuron 9mo ago
I’m a “LLM believer” in a sense, and not someone who derives joy from actually typing out the tokens in my code, but I also agree with you about the hype surrounding Claude Code and “agentic” systems in general. I have found the three posit
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by mirror_neuron 9mo ago
I love this concept. Looks great, I will definitely check it out.
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by mirror_neuron 9mo ago
I’m curious to hear more about how you get useful performance out of your local setup. How would you characterize the difference in “intelligence” of local models on your hardware vs. something like chatgpt? I imagine speed is also a factor
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by mirror_neuron 1y ago
That was my first reaction, too, but it’s not actually nonsense - it’s a depiction of Eminem practicing rhymes in a casual conversation. It’s valid feedback for the author, though. I had to read the article to understand the image.
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by mirror_neuron 2y ago
Count me among those that didn’t realize how much seed oil is used. But is that bad? I don’t have an axe to grind against cow’s milk, but I do have trouble digesting it (and besides, I like the way oat milk tastes). Do I need to be worried
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
It’s hard (impossible?) to know if we’re talking about the same thing or not, but I experience something like this all the time, without being on the edge of sleep. We might both be wrong, but it’s relatable!
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
My mother forced me to practice classical string instruments from a very young age, and as a child, I fought her viciously over it. Because she pushed through my complaints and bore my abuse, I now have deeply embedded musical skills that h
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
> Even if you manage to find something that is somewhat relevant to the real world, like green energy research, chances are it might be something highly technical, abstract, and difficult to relate back to the final product. As someone l
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
It's a matter of the degree of support. Would it be wrong, in your view, for a wealthy tax-paying parent to invest in their own child above and beyond what their taxes provide for society's children?
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
I agree with your takeaway message, but the timeline isn’t completely arbitrary. From the perspective of humans appreciating things, there’s a difference between something that endures for .01x vs. 10x a person’s expected lifespan.
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
Unless you mean that you eventually grew out of the view that extroverts “suffer from severe deficit in their mental makeup”, I wouldn’t call your position “balanced” at all. You’ve just swung from one extreme to another. I don’t know you,
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
That adaptation may not be appropriate for the modern environment. When exposed to modern/ internet-scale communities, it could be that there are so many false-positive threats to one’s status that the advice to (generally) not worry
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by mirror_neuron 3y ago
Are you suggesting that there are people who practice science that do not rely on trust in others in any way to establish their beliefs?
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
I sympathize with you (the feeling of being threatened by charlatans). I don't think these feelings reflect reality, though. It can feel like your career will be threatened by the existence of this type of person, but unlike them, you
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
You are expanding the scope of the original suggestion to make it seem more extreme. Taxing activities that damage society as a whole (and funneling that money towards mitigating that damage) seems to me like a good solution.
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
I disagree that this is a slippery slope. The line should be drawn by the people living in the society that draws it. As that society (and the cultural, technological, and environmental context around it) changes, the position of that line
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
In a society with socialized healthcare, you would be harming others by making it more expensive to care for you in the future. In a society where the price of healthcare is set by market forces alone, perhaps you should have unlimited free
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
My (unsubstantiated, off-the-cuff) theory is that empathy/altruism and selfishness are held in equilibrium. Altruistic traits lead to cooperation, which leads to civilization and surplus, which makes selfishness less damaging to societ
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
GP is using “theory of mind” as a technical term with a specific meaning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
If you haven’t heard of it, you may be interested in openreview.net They operate mostly in the computer science academic community, last time I checked.
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
Neuron count is strongly correlated with body size, and does not necessarily correspond to what we like to call “intelligence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
I like this. These are good points. I think it's worth noting that your position is not the same as GP's, however. One small objection: I assume you lead with "of course" in your first sentence because that value is intu
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
Serious question: how is the destruction of animal life for sustenance different from the destruction of plant life? I'll give you my answer, and hopefully you can share your thoughts (or other answers entirely) to help clarify my thin
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
Fascinating. Thank you.
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
That’s unexpected! I admit that my search was superficial, but I didn’t find any obvious connection between Goering and the phrase “toxic culture.” Could you elaborate?
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by mirror_neuron 4y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you’re trying to say that the phrase “toxic culture” signals something exasperating or frustrating to you about the person using it. Is it because you don’t think that a culture can be toxic? Or perhaps

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