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by patcon 6y ago
Oh..! Interesting, but I think there are very different outcomes with leaning on either (1) "earnest A or earnest B" vs (2) "bad C" (McDonalds Theory)... The McDonalds Theory doesn't attempt to control or guide the
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by patcon 6y ago
Thanks for your comment! fwiw, pls note that your critique would apply equally to any concern that society wishes to "push up the stack". Collectivizing challenges (rather than individualizing them) is what pretty much all societa
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by patcon 6y ago
Former biochemist here. There may be flaws in the study (i haven't read it), but none of what you're gesturing to strikes me as evidence of "jumping to conclusions". A couple thousand basepairs is a row (a fair assumed l
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by patcon 6y ago
"More transparency" and "only making policy based on public, not proprietary data" sounded great in theory (and aligned with how some scientific journals are leaning), so I was confused at first. But the crux of it was t
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by patcon 6y ago
Whenever I hear about memristors, I think back on this guy I came across online, whose company blog publishes stuff like this: https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/ He patented a memristor design, and seemingly ha
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by patcon 6y ago
Thanks. But wow, so it's that easy to be accidentally complicit...
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by patcon 6y ago
omg, someone could not have designed a better conspiracy machine than this publication's standard retraction process. Missing abstract. no way to find rejected article. People will go absolutely loopy with that
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by patcon 6y ago
This sounds like the age-old balance between maintenance/repair and breaking-new-ground/innovation. My personal sense is that there is and always has been a gendered dimension to striking this balance, and varying levels of predis
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by patcon 6y ago
fwiw The Conversation is an online magazine that pairs academics/researchers with journalist editors. The academics do the writing, and their assigned editors offer tons of hands-on support to help the academics to directly communicate
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by patcon 6y ago
Heh thanks :) I'd venture it's more about "life-emerging" forces happening at all scales -- That all matter is slowly tending toward living when it sits in the blaze of an entropy-generating monster like a star. Disclaim
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by patcon 6y ago
The distinctions (between all the ways "meme" is used) are addressed pretty well in van Driem's papers and book chapters. In short, Dawkinsian "memes" are a very weakened version, mostly based on rote mimicking and
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by patcon 6y ago
heh, oops. yep :)
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by patcon 6y ago
> most religions are essentially community construction kits love this. What you wrote really resonates with me. Particularly the thinking on geographically-defined communities being important. I feel the full significance of this swap&#
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by patcon 6y ago
No prob! "complexity science + <subject>" is usually a great starter for finding stuff from this angle. Complexity podcast by SFI is a wealth of knowledge, and had a recent episode about archeologists applying complexity thi
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by patcon 6y ago
> Religion served its purpose and no longer feels relevant in light of technology and science. Ah interesting. I personally wonder whether our challenges with conspiracies are related to the hole we're left with as religious belief
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by patcon 6y ago
Really like this "meta lifeform" idea. I'd suggest it might go further, even into the realm of language, story, and culture. Might there be a case for claiming language itself is another level of meta lifeform that has grown
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by patcon 6y ago
Neat! I haven't seen this idea out in the world much, but a book called "Object Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything" kinda runs at this from a neat science-rooted philosophy perspective. It basically says that any p
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by patcon 6y ago
Santa Fe Institute! Highly recommend the Complexity podcast. So much good stuff that all dovetails with Gleick's stuff <3 My recent favourite contained an analogy by researcher Sara Imari Walker, who had this great line about how &q
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by patcon 6y ago
Yeah! I feel very similarly. You might get a kick out of this post by a man who works adjacent to Sante Fe Institute folks. This guy takes it to the next level and makes you almost start to think of "non-living" things as "pa
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by patcon 6y ago
re: religion being evolutionarily advantageous. Totally. Though with your specific 3 points, I respectfully suggest you're missing the forest for the trees. The specific stories we tell through religion don't always matter as much
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by patcon 6y ago
I don't agree -- I highly value our being humbled by how often a judge from "the other side" votes our way -- but genuinely appreciate hearing how you're thinking about it. Thanks for the words
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by patcon 6y ago
> requires government to solve as it is a public goods problem Your comment makes me think of Ostrom's Nobel-winning work on governing [natural] commonses[1]. The framework she developed over 40 years makes a case that public goods
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by patcon 6y ago
> The underlying nexus is that our ideals on free speech do not take into account human wetware bandwidth. Really well said. I'll admit I lean on "wetware" in these convos too. Free speech perhaps breaks down in net-centri
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by patcon 6y ago
Ditto. So much vibing with your comment, and this post :) I spent a few years co-organizing a weekly "civic hacknight" event for technologists, designers, policy wonks, public servants, lawyers, and any engaged citizens who cared
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by patcon 6y ago
Sorry, "unit tests" prob made it sounds like I think more stochastically than I actually do. Was just trying to use jargon of this place. As a longtime community organizer, the messy human stuff is def where I prefer to operate :)
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by patcon 6y ago
I think you're in agreement? To clarify, I understood the commenters placing "play" last was because it was at the top, and the root rationale. making money -> eating -> energy -> play
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by patcon 6y ago
Is this also your perspective on something like unit testing when your first regression slips through? No, you fix it. Law is code, and needs tuning. When people as so inclined to give up on first failing, then I feel it says more about the
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by patcon 6y ago
Hi! I like your comment, so thank you. > This persuasion can be purchased by the highest bidder Yes. In other words, they're purchasing weighted edges in the social graph: buying new edges (that send peer signals toward the target w
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by patcon 6y ago
funny, that was the main thing I noticed and appreciated about the journalism. why would you not want this made clear in the context of judges doing the very thing we're thinking about when they're appointed (ruling on stuff)? imh
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by patcon 6y ago
Re: can persuasive technology methods create tools/processes of radical neutrality. I'm actively contributing to a tool called Pol.is[3]. It's designed to be consensus-building tech. It's part of some pretty rad democrat

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