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by patcon 6y ago
I think I agree with you. I wholly support clamping down on adtech btw. I just don't support the "this article doesn't talk about the tech merit" angle of critique, as if that's so obviously a starting (or priority)
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by patcon 6y ago
> This is basically an ad hominem argument. There is no room to discuss Sandbox on its merits with this stance. I respectfully disagree and defend the position you're replying to. I take issue with your provocation because I fear th
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by patcon 6y ago
Hm. Ok, these are good questions. I did biochemistry, where we kinda talked about "fitness" a lot -- I haven't unrolled it in awhile, so you've got me thinking. Let me try... Fitness is a property of the relationship bet
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by patcon 6y ago
heh sorry, maybe it wasn't as strong a primer as I was recalling, since there's lots of noise around the message I was cherry-picking for my comment :) This one's more to-the-point maybe: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by patcon 6y ago
Oh jeez! I'm admittedly an SFI super-fan, but had never heard of CoA! They seem like a neat little feeder institution. I used to camp there as a kid, so the area is very familiar to me. Thanks so so much! I feel like some kid in my &qu
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by patcon 6y ago
Do they not control for "trust" that the person has genuine factual knowledge? So your personal doubting due to lack of sources is controlled for, I believe, in their "manipulation checks" on page 1. So people who aren&#
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by patcon 6y ago
I believe the parent comment is trying to defend a "complexity science" approach to the world. Adherents would argue that all these "fuzzy patterns" (conspiracy-thinking, some might say) stem from shared generalized prop
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by patcon 6y ago
YES. Thanks for saying this. I reflect on this a lot when I try to imagine how I should "expect" the society to tend toward some pseudo-stability... A related TED talk by Donald Hoffman has stuck with me: https://www.te
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by patcon 6y ago
I hear that. Thanks for reply. Very different from my experience, but glad to understand. > My therapist loves me... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Yay for therapy :) Just had my first session today
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by patcon 6y ago
I think this is really thoughtful. In mindfulness practices, I've heard it mentioned as "noting without judgement". Maybe this is all just a matter of labels :)
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by patcon 6y ago
Funny. I found this able to put words on something I've struggled with. I found it pretty profound in its observation In my reading: This author is acknowledging that they're "not nice" in small personal interactions, bu
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by patcon 6y ago
I'm thinking deeply on your comment, and appreciate it. Aren't these just degrees of the same? I'm not sure the value of cultivating positive view of the small manifestation, but then scolding it when it becomes big. Imho, ye
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by patcon 6y ago
Yessssss! Vibing. Your last paragraph describes exactly what motivates me to work on an open source platform called https://pol.is/home . Or rather, the loss of the ability to navigate those dynamics in high-volume, low-emp
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by patcon 6y ago
> It is debatable whether "the fundamental change that caused sapiens to dominate all other life" i.e. "our ability to abstract and conceptualize" is unique to humans. I like your questions. I'm not disagreeing (
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by patcon 6y ago
> This feels like splitting hairs though. Respectfully, it doesn't feel like splitting hairs to me... but quite a significant frame-shift. (Defensive credentializing: I'm a former biochemist and now technologist and event facil
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by patcon 6y ago
I like the question, but I'm not sure I have an answer :)
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by patcon 6y ago
> I hear you, but it seems neat that our ticker tape yields a meat bag that likes to send rockets to other hunks of rock in a giant cold vacuum (for example). I'd suggest as individuals of our species, we're not much more inter
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by patcon 6y ago
And further, to the extent that we might say "a lot of ants experience people now", it's perhaps more a function of us being way overextended beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of our system. In a world where humans som
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by patcon 6y ago
Sorry, I was a little too indignant there. Apologies. But also, that's contributing "out", not contributing "back". It's the difference between working with your neighbours, vs leaving your extra shit around yo
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by patcon 6y ago
I've only read book 1, but I'm inclined to believe this as well. This video provides a neat complexity science view of intelligence: https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_... I'm in
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by patcon 6y ago
Not sure if it's non-human enough, but A Fire Upon the Deep had central characters that had a very non-human way of thinking, though perhaps it could be said that they still "thought" like humans in the end. (I recall the spe
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by patcon 6y ago
> I'm sure they would have no problem contributing back Why the heck would you feel sure of that? What evidence makes you think anything in Amazon's DNA would go in that direction? Amazon is blatantly missing from every open so
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by patcon 6y ago
Not that both can't be true, but was surprised at your words. I read it as a subtly sweet story. Surprising in both generosity and gratitude, hinting at still being in touch, sincerity. (But yes, agree that poverty itself is sad.) btw
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by patcon 6y ago
> Like the CNN journalist who encouraged people to break into the building. False https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9906367046 Presumably your hot-take understanding comes from your "neutral" source
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by patcon 6y ago
And old rant in their issue queue: https://github.com/probot/stale/pull/107#issuecomment-379021... > Thesis: Stalebot -- in dutiful service of current human resource constraints -- feels like it unthinki
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by patcon 6y ago
Wow, this comment section is like a flame for all the type-A moths (straight feedback; boo to "false encouragement" etc etc). Please understand, readers, that you are participating in a VERY misrepresentative subset. I believe thi
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by patcon 6y ago
Odd. Sorry about that :/ It's working for me on desktop. Roam is a highly-used service, so I'm really surprised it doesn't work on FF mobile. It may be that it just take a little bit to load? (as Roam always seems to)
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by patcon 6y ago
I contribute to a neat platform called https://pol.is/home . It's used to shape legislation in Taiwan. It's basically a techno-social exoskeleton that gives laypersons the superpower to see the whole forest (10,000
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by patcon 6y ago
Interesting. Perhaps you're right of disagreement. Yes, the world is definitely filled with two sorts of thinkers along this axis we're alluding to, that's for sure. My analysis: A focus on "challenge" is the framin
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by patcon 6y ago
Seems accurate, at least until increasingly extractive trading (which externalizes almost all costs), leads to the collapse of the ecological systems underneath it. Then we're back to good old fashioned war-war :/

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