vonjuice

6 ms·

31.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I always considered Asimov to have good ideas but he's a pretty bad writer, specially of female characters.
32.
by vonjuice 3y ago
In that case the person would be a bottleneck towards improving a piece of software that would benefit a lot of people. Sure, you're within your right to do that, but really ?
33.
by vonjuice 3y ago
Musicbee is the only piece of software that I consistently missed when I stopped using windows. If it was maintained I might consider using wine for it but as it is I completely gave up on the idea of a music manager, I just use mpv to pl
34.
by vonjuice 3y ago
Before planes people imagined machines that would flap their wings like birds.
35.
by vonjuice 3y ago
> Are you in agreement with this as far as it goes? Do you agree with my premise that we can predict what will happen when we react H and O? I do agree with the second premise, but I'd say that's just saying we have a really go
36.
by vonjuice 3y ago
A trait of an addiction is that it significantly alters the way you perceive rewards and pleasure. It's not that it's hard to find better things to do, or that the other things aren't better, it's just they're not
37.
by vonjuice 3y ago
A big part of addiction is that it's an escape from something else. The way you describe it, it sounds like through the day, when you have something better to do you don't engage with devices. But how about longer periods? Like a
38.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I chuckled.
39.
by vonjuice 3y ago
If you stopped using the app and didn't replace it with social media that would be a good outcome, if it improved your habits to the point of doing something creative or productive instead.
40.
by vonjuice 3y ago
You're making a fundamental mistake in comprehending this. You're confusing the map for the territory. When I say the laws of physics I mean the map, and you're thinking about what they point to , the territory. What is the
41.
by vonjuice 3y ago
No that's not what is being said. The laws of physics are a mental model . There is something they map on to, but we can only form an incomplete map. They're a reduction in order to understand, and thus as much as they're fo
42.
by vonjuice 3y ago
And where do you find such a universe?
43.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I got through it, but I see more value in it for the ideas than how they're executed and how it's written.
44.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I think the responses that something either will die or revert back to some simile of the good old days is a very human response that stems from the fact that in reality, it will mutate in forms that we can't really predict. Or perhaps
45.
by vonjuice 3y ago
am I the only one who just hates this phrase? It feels like everyone is contractually obligated to say it but I can't imagine that's actually the case, and it just became a meme (in the Dawkins sense of the word) that people sprea
46.
by vonjuice 3y ago
Not quite. What you prove by circuit bending is that you can alter behavior through physical means, no one's denying that. But the conclusion that because of that, then the physical means are also creating consciousness, that's no
47.
by vonjuice 3y ago
> It’s interesting that throughout history we have tended to characterize the behavior of biological systems in terms of the dominant technology of the time. "In the beginning was the Word", says the book.
48.
by vonjuice 3y ago
The laws of physics are a mental model created by consciousness to understand the world experienced as beings separate from it. To subjugate the creator to that which it created is a bit funny.
49.
by vonjuice 3y ago
That if in the middle takes the same role and responsibility there than the religious' faith in god.
50.
by vonjuice 3y ago
You can give alcohol to a driver and it will affect their driving. However, if you're an alien and you don't know the exact workings, you might conclude that alcohol affects cars .
51.
by vonjuice 3y ago
No. Nauseousness or happiness are states that can only happen when mind and matter are intertwined in the form of a living brain. Much like there is no divine being that decides "I'm going to make this dense star a black hole&quot
52.
by vonjuice 3y ago
To be fair I also lost interested in "okay" movies. If I watch one it better be great or baffling.
53.
by vonjuice 3y ago
The way I journal, I have a bash script that looks for today's date in past years, and opens them alongside the current entry. It was fascinating when I started doing it because before it, I didn't really think about future me rea
54.
by vonjuice 3y ago
Maybe write to your future self as if they were a friend and you were trying to figure out this together.
55.
by vonjuice 3y ago
but sometimes bad movies are more interesting than good ones (good, not great)
56.
by vonjuice 3y ago
Conversely there's aspects of screens that are not present in crack, such as widespread acceptance and even encouragement, hijacking of our most prioritized sense organ, etc. If you were to design a visual drug, as a concept, you would
57.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I'm not so much interested in how difficult it is to track something as whether the data and its granularity maps out onto real change. I went through periods of wanting to make changes in my life, and I thought it was all about figuri
58.
by vonjuice 3y ago
"Alcohol is as present in my life as I want it to be. No one is forcing alcoholics to drink or to buy wine. That's their choice." Given that you ignored pretty much all of my points and instead doubled down on your bootstraps
59.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I mean I just expressed agreement with a sentiment that you posed, you brought up texting and driving? What a weird person.
60.
by vonjuice 3y ago
I'm a fairly calm person and not many things produce anger in me, but seeing someone on their phone while driving is one of the few things that make me rage.

More ›