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We are approaching a digital Kessler syndrome, or perhaps a Deepwater Horizon info-oilspill event, where there is so much useless SEO-driven slop (soon to be taken webscale with the advent of genAI) to sift through on the internet that it&#
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See also Genpo Roshi's Big Mind, Big Heart which has one assume the persona of various aspects of their mind and attempt to carry out a dialogue as that aspect.
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Indeed; the Oracles at Delphi were revered for their ability to divine wisdom from auditory hallucinations which were literally equated with gods. In some modern western cultures, by contrast, you even have active gaslighting of those who a
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> Maybe the most famous case of a high-functioning outlier was Carl Jung. He hallucinated completely people since childhood ,visually and everything. It's maybe easier to understand his focus on individuation, or integration of the
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The phenomenon of auditory hallucinations often attributed to schizophrenics in modern day, was, far from being an aberrant condition, in fact the normal every day condition of ancient bicameral man. There was no concept of "I" or
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Restaurants and bars especially in my city love tax evasion - that's why they are so enthusiastic about cash payments.
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This is eye-opening. I make a fraction of what Steve does and am still dumb enough to be hitting 20% at the machine every time I go out. If 0% is good enough for Mr. Ballmer, it's good enough for me.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." [0] [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#1750s
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> If every morning I got in my car and left for work and my neighbor followed me, writing down every place I went, what time I got there, how long I stayed, and the name of everyone I called, it would be incredibly intrusive surveillance
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The difference is that with arithmetic and calculators I am simply playing the rules of a formal game without regard to the semantics of those numerical symbols. I don't care so much what the numbers mean as much as I care that I hav
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You would do well to distinguish between "real" liberalism and "fake liberalism," the latter of which is better referred to as progressivism; note that TFA makes reference to progressivism about a dozen times - 4x more t
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> what if certain types of speech end up getting banned and if you don't remove it on time (or lost access), you risk jail-time? So racism, homophobia, and transphobia? Why would you support technologies that promote and support the
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Do you not understand what I am doing?
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I have seen the Wall of Sheep in person when HTTPS everywhere was just getting started, and you would still see wireless networks secured with WEP. This is pre-Snowden.
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Feel free to debate the statement on its merits, at face value.
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Sure. Chomsky et al continue in the cited chapter, In addition to discrimination against unfriendly media institutions, advertisers also choose selectively among programs on the basis of their own principles. With rare excepti
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Less resentfulness and more contempt or pity, as one would regard a methhead tweaking out in public; except here it's a wirehead getting off on social media.
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As possible counterpoint consider the departure of several advertisers from X following the Musk acquisition, whose controversial online antics and positions (irrespective of one's potential value judgments of them) were deemed bad for
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> i can't imagine any citizen being opposed to one of the only sources of truth on the internet. You can't think of any incentive for compromising an authoritative source of truth and the historical record?
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I quit social media over 10 years ago, already having been a conscientious objector to Facebook and other platforms, much to the confusion of my classmates who didn't understand my idiosyncratic positions on digital privacy, attention
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I would rephrase it further to "quit ad-based media." The problems and conflicts of interest introduced by an ad-based revenue model were discussed long before the advent of the modern Web and social media; the relationship betwee
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There's been some limited research in this space; see for instance xoreaxeaxeax's sandsifter tool which has found millions of undocumented processor instructions [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajccZ7LdvoQ
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I recall looking at New Relic reports of slow transactions that suffered from stacked n+1 query problems because the ORM was obscuring what was actually going on beneath the hood at a lower level of abstraction (SQL). My point is it's
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> Sorry but this kind of theoretical reasoning wouldn't move a needle if I'm reviewing your PR. If this were a PR review situation I would ask for a callgrind profile or timings or some other measurement of performance. You don
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The characterization of FP-style approaches to the problem makes me question that it is a canonical example at all; rather I would regard it as a strawman of FP style, or otherwise not idiomatic or awkwardly designed. If Haskell is indeed u
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So... O(n)? Leaving aside the fact that "3 * O(n)" is nonsensical and not defined, recall f(x) is O(g(x)) if there exists some real c such that f(x) is bounded above by cg(x) (for all but finitely many x). Maybe you can say that g
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> As the author explains above, being a senior engineer does not require a specific title. It is a mindset, an understanding reached not by years but by enlightenment. And who is capable of recognizing enlightenment in a land where the b
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The paper itself: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w.epdf?shar...
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I don't actually take any strong positions on the matter so long as the sense in which a term is used is clearly defined and agreed upon from the outset. This is merely an observation regarding what the literature considers "langu
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This sounds similar to a fairly early realization in the practice of meditation. Daniel M Ingram refers to it as "Cause and Effect" in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: [0] > In the stage of Cause and Effect, the re

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