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by vonnik 2y ago
Hmm, I don’t see any signs of a quack here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett https://www.affective-science.org/lisa-feldman-barrett.shtml A PhD, national awards, research appoints at
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by vonnik 2y ago
This is simply false, a series of claims that have been disproven but refuse to die. See Lisa Feldman-Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made.
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By a former SciAm columnist: https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-american-go...
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For me, there’s always an early social element to learning: trying to figure out who the experts are; getting them to point you toward the best resources; and if you’re lucky, bouncing your mental models off them to be corrected. A good LLM
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There are a bunch of different ways. The best nootropic is sleep, the second-best is exercise. https://vonnik.substack.com/p/a-few-ideas-that-made-my-life-... Another good thing to do is block out the energy-suckers; i
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cognitive control, apols.
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Cognitive control is one of the most important issues of our era, IMHO: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back There are many techniques to increase our CC. The ADHD community is a trailblazer in thi
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That English is Germanic. A similar debate exists about how to categorize Yiddish, but for different reasons.
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There’s def a bit in Mann’s 1491.
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California banned several forms of deepfake and digital replicas without consent just days ago. https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/here-is-whats-illegal-unde... Not sure if those laws apply to Jeff tho, as the
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by vonnik 2y ago
I have been involved in supplying non-lethal technology to Ukraine for the last 2+ years. While this excludes the "bullets, barrels or bombs" part of the killchain, it includes energy sources, ISR drones, telecommunication and EW
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One problem is that while many managers may know what they want, but not how to prioritize. They just want all of it. They don’t know what they want most or like to believe they don’t have to choose. Another is that what they want depends o
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by vonnik 2y ago
I'm not sure California is "new" as a center of political corruption. Willie Brown added many layers of intentional complexity to San Francisco's city government while he was mayor (1996-2004). The only way for a citizen
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I think many adults re-enchant the world by believing conspiracy theories.
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I think Gazzaley’s marginal value theorem applied to information foraging is much more helpful than Crawford’s theory: https://www.thebrainblog.org/2017/01/19/review-of-the-distra...
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by vonnik 2y ago
Some but not all of what the author says is true. PMF is a continuum, but also a threshold phenomenon below which it is better called wishful thinking. PMF is dynamic and can be lost, but that is more a question of the M in which it occurs,
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by vonnik 2y ago
Misspelling in headline: agaon > again. America is probably not behind in long-range strike drones, esp those that are supersonic, carrying high payloads and with stealth characteristics (hard to detect). But we are very much behind on s
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by vonnik 2y ago
That's true. The interesting thing is how D&D creates branching trees of inverted periods, scene by scene and character by character. In great fiction, IMO, there's usually something big that you are not certain of yet that ma
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I grew up next to, and a couple years younger than, someone who is now a famous novelist and singer-songwriter. In our childhood, he was renowned in the neighborhood as a dungeon master. He rode the theater of the mind as far is it would ta
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Highly recommend Julian's whole blog, The Egg and the Rock, which others have linked to on this page. It's mostly about a theory of the cosmos which I think he calls "evolved-physics holism". This post is a good place to
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This exists: https://playonshakespeare.org/
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I never thought of Caffeine as the Pervitin of the civil war… or pervitin as the caffeine of WWII
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I think this analysis is missing something: how much money is being made per hit, and how many people are consuming it? In TV, at least, the numbers are way down. As a result, people play it safe by doing remakes.
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Grew up in a purple state listening to NPR. For many many years, it was the only smart talk radio available. But it turned into partisan cant a few years ago. A great tragedy.
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SF native. Brother of defense attorney Tony Serra who defended Shrimp Boy and the Ghost Ship guy. Agree with comment below that his works are best appreciated by walking in their shadow.
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Yamanaka factor-based genetic and chemical treatments that remind your cells’ age. Already showing results on organs like eyes. They’ll come to the US slower than they come to medical tourism destinations.
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Roland Barthes, the great French essayist of the 20th century, once said: Je ne pense qu’aimant. Which means roughly: I only think by loving.
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This is a variation of "you ship your org chart." After hearing the outbound version of this truism, I discovered that the inbound version is also true; ie "you buy your org chart." Anyone selling to v large organization
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This paper is a nothing burger. Diamond’s analysis was not single factor. But if we stick with geography, how many isthmuses create bottlenecks for migration annd exchange across Eurasia? Look at the Middle East, which touches the Nile, the
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I attended DS in the mid-90s, slightly before @girzel (who does great work btw!). DS is essentially a transfer school that offers no tenure and whose small student body is on a two-year program. That is a recipe for rapid cultural change an

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