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by rtikulit 5y ago
I feel like you have changed the topic, or maybe this was your topic all along and I didn't pick up on the coding. So no, it is not obvious. As topics, “teachers” is orthogonal to “structural racism”, and I suspect that blending them t
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by rtikulit 5y ago
What are you smoking? What darkest Ontario timeline do you live in? I live in Ontario, was educated here, have kids in the system, hobnob with zillions of parents, interact with my kid's teachers and know a couple socially. Teachers ar
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Chesterton's fence applies. The seniority system has serious drawbacks, but it has the advantage of being simple and difficult to game. It limits the damage caused to organizations by manipulators who would use more sophisticated syste
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Many years ago I tried Super Lube® Multi-Purpose Synthetic Lubricant for locks exposed to weather 24x7, including one that spends 3 months a year buried in snow, and it is far superior to WD-40, as in multiple years of smooth operation with
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I was developing designs in a complex problem domain, and I spent some time prototyping an ontology and inference thing to automate part of the design work. Didn't work out -- my time box circuit-breaker triggered -- but it helped clar
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by rtikulit 5y ago
You are making an amazingly important point. If one accepts "all models are wrong, some are useful" then it fairly directly follows that cognitive dissonance is essential and irreducible and when one encounters it maybe examine on
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I guess I'm done with 1Password, then. The thousandth cut broke this camel's back (or something like that).
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by rtikulit 5y ago
“A teacher when one is required, no teacher when one is not required,“ or something like that. :) The Buddha is an existence proof of the possibility of direct independent observation and understanding.
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I am not a teacher. I have practiced irregular Soto sitting for many years. I do occasional and informal reading of Buddhist texts. By inspection (eg. sitting, paying attention, etc!), I discovered that we both do and do not have an indepen
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I pretty much agree with you, but not because I think that "capitalism" is a thing with agency, or its agents are pursuing this as an explicit strategy. I think unrestrained capitalism progressively optimizes away people's op
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by rtikulit 5y ago
She has her methods. Mostly grilling. I don't interfere. :-) She loathes sous vide. The nice thing about the Thermapen is that it reads so fast that it's easy to explore the temperature gradients in the food. It's a learning
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I bought my wife a Thermapen for Christmas and it’s revolutionized her cooking (and mine). She’s using it for everything except toast and boiling water. Chicken, steaks, roasts, fish, fudge, cakes, casseroles, anything where complete cookin
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by rtikulit 6y ago
There is no sense in which Facebook is inherently bound by the values and interests of its customers (either as individuals or in groups). Given their power in mediating human-human communications at every scale, It would be an act of colos
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by rtikulit 6y ago
Journey and destination are nondual.
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by rtikulit 6y ago
It has been my experience that at the point I no longer crave something, I have the most power and freedom to obtain it. This has included significant others, influence, jobs, money, love, etc. I think you can generalize this phenomenon to
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by rtikulit 6y ago
I think the discussion and analysis of each company's prior behaviour is exactly on point--the question before humanity in the general case is "what are these companies really up to?" Each (including Apple) has a hidden age
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by rtikulit 6y ago
Ah, wow. My personal definition of music is "intended sound". (Needs additional qualifications, but most are obvious. "Intended sound that is not purely functional"?)
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by rtikulit 6y ago
The entrenched economic powers will (as they always do in these economic transitions) capture a disproportionate share of any productivity gains resulting from a mass change to remote work. And their spirits don't care if you win a low
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by rtikulit 6y ago
I take your line of argument as meaning "there are no legitimate medium or long-term interests for countries, for societies or for humanity". Or, alternatively, "the pursuit of short-term interests will always result in long-
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by rtikulit 7y ago
In the 70's, in high school, I taught myself APL (mostly TOPS-10 APL SF and a bit of IBM APL SV) well enough to grasp the fundamental functional approach and write real programs (and the obligatory game of life in 1 line :-)) At the ti
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Except we didn't prosecute and convict the builders.
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Around 1990 I had to do some interviewing and I used this kind of intentionally underspecified simple problem to weed people out. (It seemed radical at the time.) Did they realize the problem was underspecified? Did they try to elicit the u
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Overall similiar to this, except I get a pencil and a couple of sheets of 11x17” paper and I incrementally build concept maps[0]. These help me memorize entities and relationships, identify abstractions, chunk details, etc. I also use Visua
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by rtikulit 7y ago
The risk is that the naive and opportunistic application of decision-making, “judgement” and “ethics” embodied in AI systems will lead to the well-intentioned accidental regulation of important domains of human life, stifling those with rel
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by rtikulit 7y ago
I find it hard to do my actual job, which is often boring. So what I do instead is I find something else to do, that is even more valuable than my actual job and significantly more difficult, but which is inherently interesting to me. Then
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Not my experience at all. Took Vyvanse and Dex for a few years. Able to stay at the therapeutic dose, had no temptation to exceed it. 10-15 mg equivalent of Dex changes my day, and will do so month after month after month. Under psychiatric
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by rtikulit 7y ago
I have the opposite experience. I am formally diagnosed with ADHD, none of my friends would dispute the diagnosis. When I am on stimulants (Vyvanse and Dex) I have a ton more patience and emotional equilibrium. I pay attention to other peop
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Broadly speaking, measuring things good, measuring people sometimes good, sometimes very bad. There are two things I would very much like to avoid. One, weaponized behavioral models that allow bad actors to cheaply, anonymously and pervasiv
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by rtikulit 7y ago
For me “bad actors” includes all bad actors—-whether commercial, governmental or otherwise. They are all potential snake pits and they need to be scrutinized. :-) But they are what we have to work with. To me it is irrational to refuse to u
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by rtikulit 7y ago
The issue is the Internet has provided bad actors (including rent-seeking entrenched interests) with the ability to anonymously, cheaply and pervasively spread lies and propaganda. They can precisely manipulate emotionally vulnerable segmen

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