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by progrus 4y ago
I believe this is a British person saying “during dessert”?
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by progrus 4y ago
In happy magic future society, the community may decide to mint 232 billion ghost satoshis as a tribute, and they would accrue value out of sentimentality or whatever. Something to keep in mind when talking to people about these ideas, they
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by progrus 4y ago
Everyone is interpreting this to be about ChatGPT, so one comment: As automation starts to do more and more of the work of today’s laptop and professional class, we’re gonna hear a lot of fancy whining about it. These people can’t write as
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by progrus 4y ago
The right question to ask is: What kind of labor market will those who get fired find awaiting them?
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by progrus 4y ago
“Game” is not pejorative in this context.
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by progrus 4y ago
I believe dark energy is the name for something that would be necessary to reconcile the model of an expanding universe with the amount of mass-energy that we can observe (even accounting for missing sources of gravitation, aka “dark matter
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by progrus 4y ago
Escaping a paradigm is the absolute pinnacle of achievement in theoretical science, yes. I think it would be misguided to go all-in on that goal and forget why these paradigms matter, though. Everyone else in science who helps build those w
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by progrus 4y ago
Well, except to Feyerabend’s revolutionaries, who say that all science is Calvinball: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method
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by progrus 4y ago
As you grow older and wiser, remember that you said this: “Their direct experience means nothing to the actual reality.” This is how the enlightenment ends, in a nutshell. Over-confident denial of reality, supported by misleading statistics
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by progrus 4y ago
Nice that the front-page reactionary sniping of Elon Musk’s mercurial decisions has died down, but yeah. Disappointing, willful ignorance. The cold fact that 80% of Twitter was not essential (and that this must also apply to the federal gov
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The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate(twitter.com)
84 points by progrus 4y ago|90 comments
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by progrus 4y ago
If you review and reflect on the output, and if you are consistent with that work, the new tools will indeed help you become a better writer. Good for you!
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by progrus 4y ago
And if you’re going to whipsaw back to “this was all normal and within Twitter’s rights as a private company”, just stop for a minute and look at yourselves.
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by progrus 4y ago
A lot of people sound worried about all this, and I’m not one of them. This meltdown is great news. Twitter is still working. The next drop of files will probably start another scandal about COVID censorship. I wonder how many folks all ove
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by progrus 4y ago
Musk derangement syndrome is now an epidemic.
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by progrus 4y ago
It’s the day before he’s supposed to testify before congress.
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by progrus 4y ago
YouTube, Facebook (Zuckerberg already said they reached out to squash the laptop story on Joe Rohan), probably many others.
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by progrus 4y ago
These actions effectively installed Biden as president. There was a poll where an easily-sufficient percentage of respondents said they would have changed their vote if the laptop story hadn’t been suppressed. Someone can probably find it.
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by progrus 4y ago
Every decision you make carries some risk. This is true.
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by progrus 4y ago
Dude, you had a problem way above and beyond what is being discussed here, and way above and beyond what most boys face. Sorry. I hope you’ve been able to deal with the trauma, and if not, I sincerely hope you find some peace with the world
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by progrus 4y ago
The ideal situation is with as many bystanders watching as possible. That sucks if you have a gang after you, but perhaps it can be avoided in the first place by not being an easy target. I do agree that this won’t work in all situations.
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by progrus 4y ago
Nice work! “We don’t hit girls” was an unqualified demand, though.
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by progrus 4y ago
I never really got physically bullied because this was just understood in our house, so I was confident enough with the option to throw down that it didn’t happen. There was also the fact that my parents spent beyond their means for “good
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by progrus 4y ago
In that case, maybe some Karate lessons first? I was also a tiny kid and it worked for me…
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by progrus 4y ago
We lived in a normal city where this wasn’t much of a risk, not San Francisco. Also, most bullies wouldn’t tell anyone, since they are usually bullying people in the first place because their parents abuse or ignore them. Needless to say,
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by progrus 4y ago
My parents basically said “If you keep getting bullied, assault the bully, try to draw blood, and we’ll take you out for ice cream if you get suspended.” Highly recommended for any parents of boys out there - it is the best way to address t
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by progrus 4y ago
Yep, this insanity is only matched by the deference shown by e.g. the NYTimes to SBF. Compare how Apple is responding to Elon’s political-speech Jihad, vs. the complete lack of response to the child exploitation material that he has been pu
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by progrus 4y ago
“Stop trying to make Mastodon happen. It’s not going to happen.”
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by progrus 4y ago
Boring Company is obviously for the moon, it makes sense that it’s hard to fund with Big Dig-type projects, although it was a nice try.
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by progrus 4y ago
Isolation probably makes a much bigger difference, yes. The point stands though.

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