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by patcon 5y ago
I think it touched a nerve because that line of thinking ("we're the oldest culture") is presumably highly propagandized amongst CCP China. 1800 years is the difference between "best" and "just another", w
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by patcon 5y ago
> If not voluntary, then forced. Agreed. Collapse or increasing eco-terrorism is my guess.
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by patcon 5y ago
yeah, this struck me as a cruel comment, if only out of carelessness. imho the comment author shouldn't feel good about striking at someone who's hurting, whether they approve of their coping mechanisms or not
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by patcon 5y ago
Really insightful comment. Thanks!
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by patcon 5y ago
> I’d guess if they could do away with human labor for $500M they would just do it. I see what you did there :)
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by patcon 5y ago
> It’s basically career suicide to spend any time at all trying to disprove anything in climate science. Totally, but in a beautiful way, this actually strikes me as an element of anti-fragility in the bio-cultural system you and I both
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by patcon 5y ago
> Why doesn't it seem like the government scales with the population? My take on this is that it's because government doesn't scale in a simple way with the biological population size, unless we understand government as si
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by patcon 5y ago
> it's likely that your entire experience of the world is as bounded and low-entropy as a drawing or a song YES. I've been following some threads related to the Leiden Theory of Language, which basically proposes that human min
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by patcon 5y ago
This is a really wonderful comment and i find it very thought-provoking. I haven't had much in the way of trips, but it resonates a ton with my own emerging understanding of base-reality, if i can call it that
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by patcon 5y ago
Haven't been following this except for reading the post yesterday, but these words strike me as kinda vulnerable for him to admit (in the good way), and I want to applaud it. It seems like he's admitting that his environment shape
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by patcon 5y ago
Laws are about enforceability, not individual outcomes. Your doing what you're doing stabilizes a culture where there can be no consequences for anyone in this domain, because there's no clear line of enforcement. What's a lo
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by patcon 5y ago
The vibe and high described here feels really familiar. I'm involved in civic tech organizing -- communities of engaged citizens (yes tech, but also activists, public servants, lawyers, designs, and any engaged residents) who get toget
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by patcon 5y ago
> I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic Heh funny I had the exact inverse assumption: that maybe they realized single-minded attempts to monetize only engagement exacerbates
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by patcon 5y ago
Someone in Marak's recent thread said it: > We need some sort of open source software developer's union https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues/1046#issuecomment-7... Maybe "union" isn
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by patcon 5y ago
Ditto. I was eager to set up a manufacturing sector client with Retool this coming week, but holy shit, assholes acting with impunity like this is infuriating, and I'm putting in extra time to try to find an alternative. Open to sugges
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by patcon 5y ago
Heh, or even just borrow them to confirm how bad they are as you stuff your own in. What you do with them after (once you take them home and confirm their shittiness) if up to you, karma-free :)
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by patcon 5y ago
Ex-biochemist here, turned political technologist (who's spent a few years engaged in electoral reform and governance convos) > the goal of research, which is to expand the scope and quality of human knowledge. But are we so certain
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by patcon 5y ago
The company is a little bit litigious in a weird way, but I like the idea. Just needs more of an open brand instead of some over-domineering steward imho: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/that-lit
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by patcon 5y ago
then borrow those books and throw them out :) Fix the system by creating space for better books. (Though be careful this isn't just you not enjoying certain books others love -- if that's the case, then you might tread into "
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by patcon 5y ago
This also applies so hard to grassroots community organizing. They are doing all their scaling purely through manual human strategies. Which is great, but even small amounts of tooling can help these groups to organize better and avoid burn
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by patcon 5y ago
I see what he's saying, though I have different philosophy of what the world needs. If I'm attempting to repeat back his sensibility: It's an aspiration for people to be self-responsible. Look after self, then others. We&#x27
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by patcon 5y ago
I feel quite a bit of alignment with this article. But also, I def understand that scorning victimhood is exactly the sort of thing a culture would do when those in control (and with greater influence to shape narratives) are hurting a to
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by patcon 6y ago
> The entire article is premised around this assumption Not sure "assumption" is the right word here, since this isn't a hot-take by the author :) I just googled "developmental disgust" and skimmed the first few
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by patcon 6y ago
I am really really glad I replied to your comment. My day is better for hearing that you got yourself out of a shitty time, and I'm kinda touched by your story :) Thanks a ton for sharing it!
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by patcon 6y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, but thanks. I'm no Jordan Peterson fan, but I appreciate your thoughtful comment :)
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by patcon 6y ago
> This is story telling. I get so disappointed that this is such a common mic drop pejorative on HN. Of COURSE it's story-telling. That's the point of science communication. Stories penetrate and bridge silos. Data wrapped in n
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by patcon 6y ago
> the strange physical effects of the evolved circuits aren't "hidden", they're just outside the model But isn't that all the same -- feels small difference to say it's not "hidden", it's ju
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by patcon 6y ago
I think they're on to something. Our constraint on abstraction layers that they must be legible and grokkable by human minds, that's just something we impose because we feel that we should understand. But that constraint is overbu
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by patcon 6y ago
I feel you've misunderstood his point. The stuff you (or anyone) perhaps doesn't like is stuff that someone else LOVES. I absolutely love writing docs and tests and fixing bugs, and would be willing to get paid less to work on pub
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by patcon 6y ago
> Until Wolfram’s ideas come bundled with refutable predictions that deviate from the standard model, it’s a smoke without a fire. I thought his goal was a sort of parallel reconstruction (to unnecessarily abuse a shady law enforcement

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