patcon

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by patcon 3y ago
> it's the weirdest thing to compare nuclear weapons and biological catastrophe to tools that people around the world right now are using towards personal/professional/capitalistic benefit. You're literally painting a
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by patcon 3y ago
All of them. :) https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
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by patcon 3y ago
Heh wait until you hear how the cell signalling and any biological process in your body works :) It's an absolute clusterfuck of dependencies and side-effects. It's like space bar heating functionality[1] all the way down...! In m
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by patcon 3y ago
I absolutely LOVE finding a brain doppelganger on HN, then if they're an article poster, seeing what they've been thinking about. It's like running into a version of myself that's been running my own mental processes acr
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by patcon 3y ago
When I try to port your logic over into nuclear capacity it doesn't hold very well. Nuclear capacity is constrained, and those constraining it attempt to do so for reasons public good (energy, warfare, peace). You could argue about eff
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by patcon 3y ago
Hard agree! We likely world have discovered sooner that we're on the same plane as animals. I can only imagine the effect it works have had on western religion and it's narratives of domination.
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by patcon 3y ago
I can't unlock a bikeshare in my city without GPS validating thru the app that I'm nearby. It's stupid. Assuming he means stuff like this. As I understand, no one without a physical bikeshare rental card can check out a bike
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by patcon 3y ago
I like the metaphor, but... a hurricane doesn't write values documents or employee handbooks. These things do inform actions in many orgs, and constrain opportunities to a degree. I disagree with this larger idea (that others here are
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by patcon 3y ago
A bubble for investors just means they're anticipating more returns than will be possible to recoup. But that's only matters to investors. Something could break one or two major assumptions undergirding the current form of capital
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by patcon 3y ago
https://archive.is/FF00H
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by patcon 3y ago
In case anyone is wondering, it seems it's $35B for land approx to the highway running by this approx right angle triangle of coast: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wvh44SKibJ3JpAQx9 170M m² = 170 km² ~= 18km * 18km (coastline
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by patcon 3y ago
New printing might be coming up! His wife (and heir) suggested to a friend that he might be invited to write the forward to the next one. He has cases and cases of books in his basement, and has given them to all his students for years :)
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by patcon 3y ago
> we weren’t trying to create a 3D engine, we just threw a bunch of images at some linear algebra and optimized. Out popped a world simulator. Heh. Sounds like what a personified evolution might say about a mind ;)
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by patcon 3y ago
Hm. Y'know what... I regret my comment. It felt ungenerous and obnoxious to write, and I tried to change the tone in edits, but it still feels gross. Maybe just consider my comment self-talk. I guess your comment hit a nerve with famil
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by patcon 3y ago
Maybe my rationale was just unconvincing to you (and I respect that), but I said it in the next paragraph. If you felt inclined to offer what's unconvincing about that, I'm open-minded about changing my perspective, or maybe I can
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by patcon 3y ago
There are 100% at least some ways of learning that ill prepare us for the world we're eventually going to be thrown into I mean, we're talking "learning". Even negative reinforcement and beatings are a way that was a &qu
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by patcon 3y ago
I feel for you, but I would humbly suggest trying to get to the root of this. In all sincerity, therapy is good for this sort of thing. I have similar desires, but I have come to understand them as quite dysfunctional, and not something tha
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by patcon 3y ago
Maybe the "no" is "no" to a specific accelerated pace. Social technology (assuming it involves human minds) likely has a hard cap on how fast it can move. So the "no" can be "not yet", and I believe i
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by patcon 3y ago
Ah just like with the "PhD student" joke in another thread: the value is likely in the "workers compensation case" savings when you can show that you did everything humanly possible to mitigate risk of injury, should the
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by patcon 3y ago
I like you. Your style seems great to me. The nit-picker talking about your "lack of professionalism" is not my preferred sort of human to encounter, and I would frankly prefer to hear from their sort much less often. I'd ta
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah. Also, I feel he misinterprets how much simplicity is actually the desired output in a larger sense. I believe higher order correlation is just the means to that end of producing the best low-order simplification. Deep truths tend to
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by patcon 3y ago
I disagree. I believe a company should pay based on ability of employees to have comfort and wellness, not some universal measure of value (which I believe to be impossible). What you are advocating for inadvertently breaks community and ex
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by patcon 3y ago
I was coming here to say the same, but with less words: I fuckin love Quanta. I'm broke as heck, but I really hope people with more discretionary income are able to support them financially <3
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by patcon 3y ago
I am not a svelte user, but I really like these principles. I feel very different than you, but I am sincerely glad you have clarity and that you better understand what YOU are looking for :) having said that, we'll likely end up happi
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by patcon 3y ago
> For Dave Sharma's daughter to be named Dominique Sharma Clarke, it sounds like she was married...? Common for children of unmarried parents as well
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by patcon 3y ago
I vibe with this. I was tuned to this recursive property of mind being important by this book (for anyone else reading along :) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691145471/th...
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by patcon 3y ago
I appreciate your followup comment. Perhaps I misread your tone. As someone else said, it just sounded so silly that it seemed to lampoon the perspective of those who supposedly hold it. It felt like caricature -- like the written equivalen
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by patcon 3y ago
Ah, this is messy. My speculation: --- EDIT: got mixed up with whose daughter Dominique was, but I think the general hypothesis still holds. --- - Zac was working with Shamji, under pretense of being estranged from mother - Zac met Shamji&#
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by patcon 3y ago
You might be interested in this SFI Complexity science podcast episode Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/39-9ugXDtkC/trans... It basically asks whether
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah, even if richrichie were correct, they're correct for the wrong reasons Rich, I might humbly recommend looking up "demand avoidance" as a psychological phenomenon. I have a bit of it myself, that I try to be mindful of.

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