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by swayvil 2y ago
The brighter the light the darker the surrounding darkness. And Chomsky's light is so very bright.
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by swayvil 2y ago
When you understand it you call it "science" or "technology". When you don't understand it you call it "religion" or "ritual". These are smart people. Just like us. Time is money for them just li
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by swayvil 2y ago
Would it be upsetting if we sent a probe a lightyear away and found that some constant, I dunno, Planck's constant or whatever, had changed?
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by swayvil 2y ago
Superb researchers indeed. Most would lose all enthusiasm after the riddle was "solved". Yet they still found it in them to document.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The guy who wrote hatetris, sam hughes, aka qntm.org, also writes some good scifi.
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by swayvil 2y ago
How to do vipassana. Sit quietly. Eyes half-open. Watch all the experience-stuff that you are experiencing right now. That is, all the sights, sounds, thoughts, smells, etc. All those sensations. Watch them as they come and go. Watch your a
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by swayvil 2y ago
Yeah, sometimes I think about all the things I do, and pretty much everybody does, that is poisonous to my soul. Even the act of reading. Getting all focussed up inside my head like that. It sticks you know. I mean, you put yourself there f
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by swayvil 2y ago
In vipassana (it's a kind of meditation) you can sorta enter sleepland while awake, which is a good way to exploit that creative zone.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Given a deterministic 2d noise generator (perlin or whatever). That is to say, for any seed (X,Y) you will always get noise value Z. And given the virtually infinite 2d coordinate space. You have implied a continent, or a planet, or some ki
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by swayvil 2y ago
Jorge is one hard-hitting poet. Dang.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The artist sees. The 99% doesn't. Of course popular culture is utterly dominated by the 99%. Of course. There's more to do with this great seeing than to create art and rage that apes won't give you the respect you deserve. T
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by swayvil 2y ago
Try to drive a bus by having the dozen passengers fight with each other. That probably isn't going to work. I think that governance by having everybody fight with each other only serves the strongest fighters. And of course these stron
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by swayvil 2y ago
Assuming that distributed control is invariably going to turn into a fight (spending every available resource in the process), yes, centralized control seems to be the answer.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Maybe communism, or something, is the way to go. The economy is the lifeblood of our society. Surely we don't want its form to be dictated by something as whimsical as a marketplace.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Holo display. A bucket of glass beads suspended in air.
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by swayvil 2y ago
This strikes me as a good application for machine learning. Throw random waves at the object. Filter for useful movements.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ditto. I trust neither their abilities nor their intentions. Keep your big plans well away from me. Thanks.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Anybody know how to make a diy machine for extracting xenon from air?
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by swayvil 2y ago
But ownership doesn't really fit data. I know that we want to control it but it isn't exactly property. Find a new metaphor?
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by swayvil 2y ago
I got burnout once where my concentration bone got broken. Like, I would try to concentrate and nothing. Scary dreams too
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by swayvil 2y ago
I've always wanted a ball.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Yeah monotropic. That's what I'm talking about.
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by swayvil 2y ago
That is incorrect.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The ancient meditation wizards of yore preferred to recruit those with "habitual one-pointed attention" (these days we call them aspergers etc). Because they are uncommonly good at concentration.
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by swayvil 2y ago
We have a method. You do the thing, you see the stuff. The rest is commentary.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I find that multiple sessions is the way to go. not necessarily longer. Like, dedicate 3 days to chill stuff (walking, cleaning...) and meditation. Meditate, say, 6 times a day for 20-30 minutes. That'll do it. Fasting helps too.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Ya, but I don't like concentration meditation.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Jhanas are distinctive states reached when you do concentration meditation deeply. Like, when you go this deep you'll see this weird thing. And when you get this deep you see this other weird thing , and so on. I've gotten
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by swayvil 2y ago
There's a parallel between driving behavior and internet behavior. Both isolated, inspiring recklessness.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Good scifi. We need Egan or Hughes to do it up. It's like Battlestar Galactica, except with cellular stuff.

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