patcon

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by patcon 6y ago
> Anyway Wolfram gets a lot of hate but honestly I'm glad that some smart dude is using his financially-independent time to go on wild theoretical excursions I agree! I truly appreciate this man. And he seems kind and well-intention
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by patcon 6y ago
I think you misunderstand how much leading AI researchers will be learning from complexity science and networks, and how much they'll understand [informational] diversity itself as critical to all networks (including their own communit
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by patcon 6y ago
Thanks so so much for the wonderful reply. (And I've taken your book reco!) I hear ya, and your words gave me something to think on :)
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by patcon 6y ago
First off, thanks. I really appreciate your comment and the chance to reflect. Hoping my comment comes across as fair :) > is really about the author's "I", a foray into autobiography I do feel there's some irony here
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by patcon 6y ago
Yesssss! An amazingly small skin of matter (folds in spacetime) on this rock floating in space has geometry encoded with information about the deepest pores of subatomic reality, the massive scales of space and time above and beyond ourselv
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by patcon 6y ago
haha oookie dokie. i do ok, thanks[1]. i feel you're reacting to a gentle yet eccentric message in a pretty uncharitable way, and so this interaction would maybe not be productive for either of us EDIT: ok, against my better judgement,
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by patcon 6y ago
Jumping to a completely different edge in the graph of human relationships seems like a poor way to get through anything, be it a conversation or an actual social challenge. Networks are local. Speaking and making negating cases based on
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by patcon 6y ago
Neat! Had never heard of him, but this guy's works remind me of what an early thinker on "complexity science" might sound like, who in modern times might be someone who gravitated toward the Santa Fe Institute.... He's g
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by patcon 6y ago
i mean, what's the alternative here? This feels like just the complexity and tradeoffs of living in reality -- a bit of perpetual "damned if you do, damned if you don't". Either they're "preventing life-improvi
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by patcon 6y ago
heh we probably disagree on some things (mostly about comms, likely not perspectives tbh), but I appreciate you regardless :)
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by patcon 6y ago
> I can speak w/ great confidence to anyone who knows nothing about these subjects. heh sorry, can't tell how serious you're being. but it tickles my brain that there's someone who would also vibe with that byline: c
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by patcon 6y ago
Respectfully, and with kindness not provocation: This "you know what I meant" sensibility, when many people don't know what you mean or simply have very different bedrock views that must first be engaged with and laboured o
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by patcon 6y ago
There are often stabilities in dualities, and specifically in having two strategies. "Segment" themselves was perhaps a better term, but two segments is often what I'm personally interested in Feel free to investigate stabili
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by patcon 6y ago
Ah shit, that sounds like a fuckin rotten experience. Sorry you had to go through it. i always wonder, when I have fantastically social failures like that: how could i tune the knobs to make this go better with this specific type of person,
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by patcon 6y ago
Oh totally, i didn't read it as that either, but when i went looking (bc you mentioned), i immediately noticed it :) I agree that avoiding "i am surprised" generally works well for me, as i find ppl can be prickly toward a su
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by patcon 6y ago
I found this passage really provocative as well! It got me wondering what sort of conceptualization and distinction these cultures and early humans had around gender when they didn't see gender as the original way to split themselves.
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by patcon 6y ago
I suspect it's because it struck some as the "but what about" that is a trope here. The "i can't believe they didn't mention this thing I know" sorta shtick that us tech ppl love to do :)
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by patcon 6y ago
I'm grateful for the reply :) I respectfully disagree. You have me asking myself why though. I'm thinking about this quote by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity
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by patcon 6y ago
> Better to leave it to people who do such things professionally. I empathize, esp if you're of the generation (like me) where we've grown accustom to distance in time and space via async messaging. Having said that, I would re
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by patcon 6y ago
OK, I'll admit that I enjoy Stephen's writing on this topic, though I find it very longwinded. I like that it gets me thinking in weird directions, very outside the box
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by patcon 6y ago
> debating what "life" is as a general concept outside of biology is not a profound issue I'm not sure this is true. I think I disagree with much of your neat frame-setting here. For example, some of my favourite recent po
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by patcon 6y ago
heh there's a deep irony here, in a story about "how science communicators [supposedly] ditched the term favoured for capturing the public imagination , in order to instead favour a more descriptive factual term"... ...of wh
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by patcon 6y ago
Aren't you just talking about checksums? Your xray anecdote is neat, but the software equivalent of that paranoia is even simpler and easier to operationalize if there's incentive to do so. e.g., https://reproducible-bu
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by patcon 6y ago
> I think a lot of the benefit of these types of regulations is to force businesses to commit active frauds instead of passive frauds. GREAT point. Thanks
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by patcon 6y ago
This is just giving regular ppl like you (or any meme culture creator) a similar sort of markup that was reserved for the Ralph Lauren's or any stupid designer item whose raw materials were mostly just vapor. Luxury and self-image and
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by patcon 6y ago
thanks so much. appreciate this context :)
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by patcon 6y ago
We can only know this for certain looking back. Knowing this looking forward is often cynicism, and it's a trap imho EDIT: The above are mostly something I try to keep in mind with government public consultations. I acknowledge that cy
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by patcon 6y ago
To make a sweeping and definitely falsifiable statement: My understanding is that public consultations are almost always total garbage in individualist nations :) The bread and butter of those who run them are mostly done around civic land
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by patcon 6y ago
Most of the work of good public consultation facilitators is (1) stopping those loud/frustrated/opinionated/entrenched people from distorting process, and (2) allowing many people to feel heard. (This is in addition to, of co
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by patcon 6y ago
This was a big point of its critics: the City was ostensibly a partner, but had very poor literacy and so Sidewalk Labs was essentially taking lead. When the City did seek their own third-party supports, they naively sought only supportive

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