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by patcon 1y ago
Upvoting for interesting/important/sympathetic perspective, but am very much in disagreement
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by patcon 1y ago
I would love a generative llm script that looks at my command history (or something comparable), and adds a new zsh config (or other dotfile) every day, explaining itself via a reliable motd-type screen that flashes on-screen during the fir
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by patcon 1y ago
I love this. For anyone interested, The Maintainers conference/community feels like a spiritual successor: https://themaintainers.org/events/ Really interesting to have back-to-back sessions on shipping container
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I feel like you have somehow found the least authoritative source for the wonderful new information provided... why did you choose that one? serious question, because I'm trying to understand your process (and yes, maybe gently challen
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by patcon 1y ago
Can't assess content beyond amateur attempt, but am curious. Second author seems very established, so some social proof there: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Geom... EDIT: yesterday&#x2
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by patcon 1y ago
DO NOT SPLIT (Hong Kong protest doc) https://youtu.be/BpS-Y7ndNeQ Trailer: https://youtu.be/QDz1WVUHim4 Def worth watching with people and sharing. Very inspiring <3
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by patcon 1y ago
ah, i didn't even process that that comment might be sarcasm :)
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> It’s a much simpler idea to just have citizens vote for what they want their tax money spent on, by voting for candidates who will represent their interests. I think your comment is operating under the assumption that the "folk th
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by patcon 1y ago
> a) not enough people who can afford to do so engage in philanthropy, and b) philanthropic funding isn't quasi-democratically distributed. I have to imagine that (a) is a much, much bigger issue than (b) Consider philanthropy fundi
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Sorry, that last bit was snarky. I would have preferred to phrase it that I'm very accustomed to receiving discerning feedback about this side of my expertise (intuitions that combine my biochem background with complexity science and r
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by patcon 1y ago
Yes, being clever in one domain (such that Navy and Air Force funds you work) does not mean you can't be a crank. But people funded by those orgs usually get a little more leeway: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/
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by patcon 1y ago
I did this in Toronto and SF for a few summers in my 30s, well into my "real life" and beyond college. It was transformative, like creating my own UBI. Found all the same benefits: mundane daily moments become magical. Unexpected
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by patcon 1y ago
> not something anybody on the left has expressed I very much agree with your larger point, but let's be real: Some do. There is a very small and vocal minority fascist-ish left, but this sign is in no way representative of it.
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by patcon 1y ago
Whenever I hear about neuromorphic computing, I think about the guy who wrote this article, who was working in the field: Thermodynamic Computing https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/ It's the most high-influ
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by patcon 1y ago
I think it is a shame that such a negative comment is at the top. In fact, I am ashamed by association. Their burn rate is low (~$30,000/year now, though likely higher before) and the value they generate for everyone else has clearly b
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by patcon 1y ago
I so strongly agree with this. I've never been a completionist. I'm distracted. I like novelty. I make half-form experiments, but mostly provide deeply immersive conversations for the benefit of a small group of people around me,
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by patcon 1y ago
*Snake on a Planet
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by patcon 1y ago
Ugh, I hate that I'm about to say this, because I think AI is still missing something very important, but... What makes us think that "processing emotion" is really such a magical and "only humans do it the right way&quo
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by patcon 1y ago
You've just described human users. I see no new flaws
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by patcon 1y ago
With all respect, I'm not convinced what you're saying is wisdom
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(Saying all this with respect for those who value privacy more than me ) Hostels are for this market, no? Share physical infra (bathroom/heating/walls) with other humans (aka strangers) and you get the same family discount. You&#x
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by patcon 1y ago
Strong agree. Working with European gov partners lately, and the further they can run from closed source USA infrastructure, the better. There are immense amounts of resources and political capital being spent down on this, and only more to
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by patcon 1y ago
A visual exploration tool for mapping large-scale public opinion data (derived from conversations hosted with the Pol.is public engagement tool), but using more advanced dimensional reduction algorithms like PaCMAP/LocalMAP: https:&#x
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by patcon 1y ago
> > Could we institute a corporation death penalty? > That's what bankruptcy is. No bankruptcy is the invention of gentler death, or maybe euthanasia. A death penalty would be about killing an otherwise "healthy" (
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by patcon 1y ago
It both teaches ppl who don't know yet, and "weirds"[1] things for people who already know, by framing it in a "dressed down" way. [1]: "weird" in the sense that it turns it upside down, to make the famili
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by patcon 1y ago
Doesn't this assume one truth or one final answer to all questions? What if there are many? What if asking one way means you are likely to have your search satisfied by one truth, but asking another way means you are best served by ano
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by patcon 1y ago
I think this is perhaps missing context: "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Ruben https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886 I believe they just wrote about vibe-coding in the st
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by patcon 1y ago
@dang given that HN is a pretty powerful place, and things read here are what a certain a sort of world shaper will know about: can you say whether there have been any interference operations by nation-state adversaries to subtly prune cont
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by patcon 1y ago
> And when we look at amateur politicians (smaller elections, smaller electoral pools, first time candidates) then we see this happen.. more. Much, much more. It's a known fact that smaller governments are more corrupt, but that&#x2
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by patcon 1y ago
Heh thanks for sharing. my boundary between self and other feels much more blurry :) Like if I overhear a conversation, watch a documentary, and read a billboard, and ideas from each recombine in my head to create some interpolated idea, I&

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