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by patcon 6y ago
It seems it may also leverage the "perpetual diamond" illusion that made the rounds last year, which mostly has to do with gradients on edges: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518
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by patcon 6y ago
This also feels like a argument for why telepathy will be exceedingly rare as an evolved trait in the universe ;)
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by patcon 6y ago
Oh man, I've been idly following Jamie for like a decade. This guy appears to have a beautiful form of mechanical engineer OCD and has somehow managed to escape society so that his spirit was never crushed, and he makes videos so that
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by patcon 6y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about your father. My mom passed away in this pandemic too, and I don't know how the death of a parent is supposed to work, but it feels like it's impossible to offer them as much as they deserve. I
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by patcon 6y ago
> bad at staying focused when nobody is around to peek at my screen omg yes. It's hard to communicate to people this need for coworking and co-presence. I've tried over the years to ask for always-on remote presence tools -- al
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by patcon 6y ago
Hey, thanks, I can feel your good intentions. It's hard to put a pin on why it feels like more than you're seeing. Part of it is that I'm asking for so many of these de novo supports when coworkers are so much more independ
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by patcon 6y ago
Honestly, though the ethics are certainly dicey, I do wonder whether recreating a bridge intelligence between man and animal would raise appropriate societal questions that we've chosen not the think about all of modern history (lackin
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by patcon 6y ago
The perception of things being untrustable (and that it's coming down the pipeline) is what will break larger society. If people are expecting deep fakes to arrive, we'll start seeing the knock-on effects of that erosion in trust
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by patcon 6y ago
Remote work is not for me. I'm struggling pretty hard. I miss people. I miss my sense of being good at the parts of work that involved people. I'm shit at working alone. I'm not productive like some are, and all my best ass
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by patcon 6y ago
> I do hope eventually something like this develops on the internet for the modern world. Wish-granting in process courtesy of Mozilla's Grant For The Web, dweb nerds, and the co-operative economy :) "contribute to COMPOST, t
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by patcon 6y ago
i dunno, seems pretty significant to me. used to be that we only had to be skeptical of blurry newspapers photos, then detailed photos, then videos without people as giveaway, now highly detailed videos and audio aren't trustable. You
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by patcon 6y ago
I've followed this thinking for awhile. I understand it as Complexity Science thinking, as espoused by the Santa Fe Institute. It's always struck me as the style of thinking that biomimicry is but a small subset of. It feels like
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by patcon 6y ago
Reading this as a biochemist in a past life, this was a WONDERFUL explanation.
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by patcon 6y ago
> I don't believe you can extract the meaning of a program without understanding the computer that is supposed to run it (except perhaps by statistical analysis of its results when being run, which is generally how we are studying i
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by patcon 6y ago
First, I'm not for or against any specific actions in saying this, but... I'd say that if your views on what censorship is haven't changed as the actual social medium of thought has (over 20 years), then you're perhaps b
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by patcon 6y ago
> The big question isn't how simple molecules (building blocks) come about. [...] but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms. There's a view that the early evolution of "life&q
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by patcon 6y ago
This book might be of interest to you: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691145471/th...
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by patcon 6y ago
> "My, the intelligence in this species isn't very well-distributed," they and their tentacles agree. And then maybe they conspire to orchestrate your firing from that cushy corporate office job. They note that you then go
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by patcon 6y ago
Neat! I wonder if a biologist might describe this type of behaviour (attacking perceived threats to the creature that produces your renewable food source) as primitive agriculture. Maybe the crows were just tending to your children like liv
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by patcon 6y ago
My curiosity was piqued, so I checked it out and found this really helpful [archived] wiki on the LeanPub page (and a nice video by David): http://web.archive.org/web/20190407035722/https://wiki.info-...
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by patcon 6y ago
Honestly, no. The USA is uniquely fucked up. Seriously, everyone else in the rest of the stable world-leading countries is looking in with disbelief every week
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by patcon 6y ago
Yeah, I rely heavily on one-tab. But for me at least, I've realized it's less about keeping content for later, and acts more akin to the conversational bridge "well, if it's important I'll remember it later" --
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by patcon 6y ago
Support for 1,000 fires being better than 10: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/a-trailblazing...
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by patcon 6y ago
Agreed. Just a matter of time, personnel, and offering price Any reality that becomes more adjacent in possibility-space today, is better conceived as the seed of a future you might find yourself living in. Most any protective institution i
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by patcon 6y ago
I've heard complexity science folks entertain the premise that a riot (or any non-equilibrium social order) is perhaps like a phase transition in the social strata of complex matter (like how boiling or combustion is a phase transition
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by patcon 6y ago
Just wanted to say thanks again for the exchange :)
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by patcon 6y ago
I feel like the underlying third variable in this whole thread rests in the question, "Have you or your company ever accepted or considered Chinese investment?" I would absolutely love to know how many of these folks saying "
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by patcon 6y ago
> this is so minor an infraction compared to so many others happening in the technology space... Ah ok, that's understandable. I get desensitized to a lot of this too :) > I do want to point out that not really giving a damn isn&
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by patcon 6y ago
First off, I say the following as kindly-spoken words :) I'm grateful that you and I both know to be critically-minded, and we understand the difference between essential features and data-grabs, but honestly... my Dad needed me standi
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by patcon 6y ago
This might give you language around the value of the position you're staking (esp "high-confident grays"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRRvqgYgT0 Tools that cultivate more position-taking of this sort, t

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