patcon

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by patcon 22d ago
I choose to imagine that you guys are like a cute "opposites attract" Marxist x capitalist power-couple :)
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by patcon 23d ago
It's really interesting to crawl through the web of phrases that seem "common" to each person in their interactions... I suspect if one were to get to the more niche "meme" phrases that people encounter, it starts t
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by patcon 23d ago
This is the comment I was looking for. Thank you
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by patcon 23d ago
I wrote this awhile ago on a social network... i've been trying lately to think how to talk about my creeping fear of LLMs... here's my best effort at explaining the intuition: the words are the map. we've built this map t
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by patcon 23d ago
bingo
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by patcon 23d ago
Yes, this is obviously the ask: why doesn't government unmix the omelet. Your very body unscrambles the omelet and makes you. It's what intelligent things do when they are moving agency into the proper places. what is the purpose
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by patcon 1mo ago
Imho they should def be using a separately managed go.nyc.gov or link.nyc.gov DNS record But I appreciate the intent..!
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by patcon 1mo ago
I think there's a version of this where you can reasonably say you forgot you'd set this up. Like if they disassemble your whole bag, lay the BLE beacon out, and wipe the phone... You can claim it's a theft deterrent for thie
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by patcon 1mo ago
Oh hey, I like this variant! So... both the BLE beacon and the phone have a faraday cage, and if they ever appear together outside their cages, the phone wipes? Perhaps less likely to go wrong than my original proposal when living normal li
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by patcon 1mo ago
Ah I recall I used to see the creator around :) thanks for your work! Regarding the motivation for usbkill mentioned in the article: I too was motivated to think on this stuff in relation to my sense of injustice around Ross Ulbrecht, and w
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by patcon 1mo ago
Oooooo thank you for that context..! I read random paper abstracts when they come across my attention, but don't have a deep knowledge. I can def see LLMs changing the strength of one's ability to resist and critique this connecti
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by patcon 1mo ago
I used to play around on projects adjacent to Tor and TailsOS, and had an idea for a setup I was researching. It's a little intense and probably has annoying failure modes, but sharing in case anyone else finds it helpful: - Tasker is
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by patcon 1mo ago
> A big part of it, is seeing “connections,” in everything. I've lately been wondering if schizophrenia causes this connection-seeing, or if connections cause indicators of schizophrenia/psychosis. I've lived in cities lik
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by patcon 1mo ago
> But those works were much more like dark, winding caves with treasure stashed inside of them. My teachers were like, “Right, well, into the cave you go!” and I was like “But there’s nothing in there” and they were like “Entering the ca
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by patcon 1mo ago
I was involved in one of the communities involved in the Block Sidewalk efforts in Toronto Canada, which prevented Sidewalk Labs from moving forward on a multi-billion dollar project to redevelop a chunk of downtown Toronto. I was at the Da
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by patcon 1mo ago
I think it's that the comment author thinks these are mainly cheat codes for interacting with neuro-typical ppl, but maybe not good for others. I feel that they are perhaps overgeneralizing their own neuro-atypical mental models to all
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by patcon 1mo ago
Sincere question, as a non-expert trying to situate your comment: are you a mathematician with experience in proofs?
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by patcon 1mo ago
Aside from war, there is likely no other place where one class "winning" means so certainly that countless others are dying.
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by patcon 1mo ago
paul Graham is a very brave and vocal critic of apartheid policy of Israel. I legit almost cried when I saw one of this posts... Honestly it was just so unexpected. This place tows no line, and weeds out the bots
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by patcon 1mo ago
> ordinary people [...] always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over Anything big enough always is, no? The next scale of order in the hierarchy starts concerned itself with what's good for it, at the expens
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by patcon 1mo ago
Heh I travelled for a long time with a day-bag. It's like tunnelling thru a barrier to walk around with everything you need, and strangely worth whatever trouble for that feeling of levity * shrug*
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by patcon 2mo ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law "Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." --
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by patcon 2mo ago
Washing the days clothes as you shower is a game changer. Even Waring them into shower, soaping them while wearing, and rinsing out by hand. Depends on climate, but if they dry in 2 days, you barely need anything
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by patcon 2mo ago
I enjoy your thinking! Reflecting further... Hanlons razor is about motive and "size of mental models". Stupidly small, or comprehensively large. This other thing you note seems to be about scale being low or high. Individually fi
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by patcon 2mo ago
I agree, not all violence is the same. But further, perhaps our sense of morality atrophies when we concede the idea of just violence (just as in "justice") only to the state. I presume those fighting the cartels might have more o
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by patcon 2mo ago
I agree that there's a tension you're pointing to here. But I can imagine narrative devices to get around it, if it's ever a problem. Maybe go one level deeper? Or maybe branching the timeline in the past, like Marvel popular
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by patcon 2mo ago
Isn't that a collapse in cognitive diversity? Not to be "gotcha", but out of true curiosity: may I ask if you speak multiple languages fluently? Different languages afford different ways of thinking and speaking? Just talk to
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by patcon 2mo ago
I don't find it to be utopian, but in trying to imagine how, it occurred to me that maybe the idea that we even survive to be entangled in the wider universal future, maybe that is utopian? To matter. I think there are a lot of paths w
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by patcon 2mo ago
"Breakthrough research" can be defined (in the citation record) as research that both (1) becomes highly cited, and (2) brings together citation chains that were previously not showing up together. Mundane incremental research is
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by patcon 2mo ago
I am glad for you at an individual level, but isn't part of this about understanding aggregate effects? Neither you nor anyone can really know those without talking it out with people, to understand how all corners of the human experie

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