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by rwnspace 6y ago
Someone suggested making minor mistakes on purpose to me a while ago, and it turned out to be a pretty interesting kind of pain to lean into~ There's a typo near the end of the post, which made me smile - my first thought was that it w
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by rwnspace 6y ago
You're absolutely right, I'm always tired when I have to schedule around other people's preference of working 9-5. It's not like schools should be scheduling for 9AM or earlier starts either, it's bad for the kids,
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I think Erdős said of his own mathematical ability (no doubt with some humility) that it was very much a 'bag of tricks' he would apply to the problems his multitudinous collaborators were working on. I think a lot of philosophers
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But this comes full circle - the more privileged are more likely to be more charismatic. In the UK, the art of rhetoric doesn't appear in the standard curriculum. I am confident in my ability to predict whether a UK politician has been
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Well, the ship was sinking either way... I'm kidding, and I see what you mean - but I think reading more news solves big issues just as well as reading less news. Changing the state of things now, or changing the way people approach th
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Well, is it how things get fixed? The way we collectively attribute passive attention and consume information seems less and less up to us, the longer we're surrounded by the digital equivalent of slot machines. The media is more give
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I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn't feel it much. When they came for OLGA, I was skipping school to play guitar
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by rwnspace 6y ago
A good point - I hear that writing a blogpost on your new stratagem for the week is a good way to achieve that end. You can even make a job out of it!
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I'm allergic to it too. There used to be a fantastic add-on which replaced every instance of the word 'cloud' with 'butt'. Very handy a few years ago. Could do with updating for the era of guilt-deflecting advice-me
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Oh, it's from Matthew Walker. He's a very creative scientist: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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I'm not sure either, but I am certain it's possible - not every race to the bottom is impossible to decelerate. But we must find the way to a consensus about the immeasurably powerful sorcery belief and speech imbue. Nuclear pales
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I think this effect is tough for anyone tuned to care what others think, and it tends to be rougher the younger you are. There's a significant lack of guidance in WEIRD societies about how to be a person, and this is topped off by the
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It's a natural good like water at this point. And the psycho-social mechanistic designs which go into what you consume are much more dangerous than added fluoride.
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The amount of doublethink on display here is incredible. It IS impossible to both live without these services and a be a relatively normal member of society. I've tried everything in this article, and it isn't sustainable. Veganis
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A straightforward point that comes to mind regards reusing the output of GPT-n as part of the training input to GPT-n+1: Andrej Karpathy recently tweeted about it in terms of pollution, which has wonderful connotations: https://t
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by rwnspace 6y ago
There are some societal functions, some conversations which cannot be conducted over the Internet. And the rest of them probably ought not to be.
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"The key to originality is hiding your sources." Adding on to this, the evolution of modern music, particularly sampling and DJing, is a very visceral example of how originality doesn't just appear in what sources you appro
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Speaking of walks of life, the whole thing about walking a mile in someone else's shoes comes to mind. Then I wonder if reading others' thoughts on the Internet is quite a bit like browsing a giant shoerack.
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The primary material on Lesswrong is a mixed bag, but certainly some of it is very interesting even to people with training in Philosophy. Indeed you can thank Dennett's 'Intuition Pumps' for providing a source of legitimacy
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There are literally thousands of Unix tool replacements released on GitHub, and more every year. Just off the top of my head, fex and miller are alternative cut-likes with field extraction. Unless a new unix-tool-alike is significantly bett
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Imagine if we put the blame on wild animals for their behavioural adaptations after we destroyed their natural environments. Imagine if we simply observed obesity as "what happens to x% of the human population after y years of exposure
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by rwnspace 6y ago
`~` contains these dirs: `inbox, lib, code, proj, org, .archive, .sync` Things arrive in inbox, and get sorted into lib or code. Org contains notes. Files are symlinked from lib/code/org into proj &/or .sync. Lib folder s
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by rwnspace 6y ago
I'm sorry to be glib, but I've never heard of 'just medicine'. I know there are many procedures and medications that doctors are willing or trained to provide, and I know that many doctors only know or prefer a subset of
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Ah I'm with you, thanks for the explanation - you're quite right. I've done a fair bit of bash and still I fully expect parts of the syntax to escape my memory. A modern and safe shell would be oil [0], ubiquity is WIP. [0]
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Could you explain more re: bugs? Dylan Araps sort of specialises in well-written (ba)sh and iirc uses shellcheck meticulously. I ask not to be combative in case you're just making a casual joke - more I'd like understand how bugs
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I am continually reminded of this essay by Mark Chapman, "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" [0] [0] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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The markdown editor listed on that page, Left, is really rather good: https://100r.co/site/left.html
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Here's a simple system: find out what resources you absolutely cannot bear to delete. If it's all of them, then your problem lies elsewhere.
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It took me years of this cycle before I turned a corner a few weeks ago - the phrase 'necessity is the mother of invention' became viscerally meaningful, and not just an empty platitude. In the past year or so I would instantly bu
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Thank you. Your software is a big part of some of my fondest memories :)

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