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by walleeee 6y ago
> very hard to do in a domestic scenario, and especially hard to do without noticing Life- or health-threatening CO2 poisoning, maybe, but low-level cognitive impairment due to elevated CO2 is extremely common in indoor environments.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> If space and time cannot be created or destroyed, what is being "traded" to expand the Universe? I'm no physicist, but my understanding of the general consensus is that nothing is being "traded" because the uni
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by walleeee 6y ago
Parent's condescension drips a little heavy, but anyone building power tools for a species like ours ought to reflect a while on the potential consequences, imho
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by walleeee 6y ago
> greater incentive for electric bikes Greater incentive for any sort of bike or small/low-tech personal vehicle, imo
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by walleeee 6y ago
I don't think it's really wrong to say most are sensitive to external indications of others' internal experience. Simultaneously, as you point out, we're often pretty bad at inferring intentions from this information
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by walleeee 6y ago
> But I think a good summary is that emergence happens when relations between things on a finer level of analysis become the things themselves on a coarser, higher level AND that these new things also have rich and complex interactions a
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by walleeee 6y ago
Oh, I was saying it wasn't free. I think you're right and it is fully open source
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by walleeee 6y ago
I'm the lone developer on a project which will likely never scale beyond a few thousand users and I'm really liking Dagster. You can deploy it on a bunch of other platforms (Airflow, Dask, Celery, K8s) which is really nice for m
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by walleeee 6y ago
I've had a wonderful experience with Dagster so far. I love that it can deploy to Airflow, Celery, Dask, etc, I love the Dagit server and UI and that I can orchestrate pipelines over HTTP, I love the notebook integration via Papermill,
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by walleeee 6y ago
Millions of rich people will be attempting to relocate , on top of hundreds of millions of poor people. Some will profit from this in the short term, as they do in the wake of disasters and refugee crises today, but the overall trend will
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by walleeee 6y ago
> The main take away is that a technology contains an implicit bias that is absorbed by the user. More plainly put "to someone with a hammer, everything is a nail" applies to all technology. McLuhan's Understanding Media p
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by walleeee 6y ago
With respect, if your takeaway from reading Watts is that we've "mastered" the environment, I implore you to read the Rifters series and/or his blog. That's about as far from his view as it's possible to get.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> I would like to share a different perspective.There is a saying, "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." Is it equally good to maim and destroy one's lover, oneself, and countless other fo
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by walleeee 6y ago
Related: institutions and labs need to recognize that 'research software engineer' is an increasingly necessary role and attract/fund more of them.
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by walleeee 7y ago
> There is no reason to believe that 2120 won't be just as good as long as we keep investing. Only if you squint _really_ hard, have near-religious faith in technological advancement, and ignore all the ways we're making the pl
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by walleeee 7y ago
> ...much less software would be created. I'm not convinced this is necessarily a bad thing.
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by walleeee 7y ago
> The earth hasn't had those level of CO2 and methane (in the air) since the Eocene (~2000 CO2 ppm). It's hard to imagine industry and agriculture functioning in that context. Not to mention our brains . Cognitive ability decl
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by walleeee 7y ago
Plenty of clinical psychologists use CBT in practice.
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by walleeee 7y ago
When one undergoes "ego death", experience doesn't necessarily disappear. Mental boundaries between self and other might, but unless one is completely comatose, there still remains the sensation of being, for lack of a better
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by walleeee 7y ago
> I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again.. Psilocybin and LSD can certainly produce that feeling. For that matter, cannabis at high doses
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by walleeee 7y ago
Even if we posit that the conscious "I" is a conditioned construct, that doesn't resolve the problem of qualia: which is the really hard one, imo. It doesn't help, of course, that a lot of people don't seem to see a
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by walleeee 7y ago
> I also have conversations with random people in my life, explaining what I’m doing and what I’m thinking to them. When I have an inner monologue, I don’t think of it as talking to “myself”, but rather the imagined presence of some frie
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by walleeee 7y ago
Love seeing Watts in the wild. That site is a gold mine for interesting bits of biology (and more).
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by walleeee 7y ago
> All it takes is a single generation to have 50% less children to cut the world population (and therefore carbon emissions) in half. This is not how demography works. Even an instant and global halving of the birthrate, holding all else
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by walleeee 7y ago
Given that we don't even understand what consciousness is in humans, this is a sticky question. But the short answer is yes, and not only mammals, either. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness , sp
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by walleeee 7y ago
I don't think these are contradictory positions. It's a bit like defensive programming in social space: one can take significant responsibility for one's own work while remaining aware that others with no legal/etc compu
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by walleeee 7y ago
The article posits factors such as: - reduced inflammation due to improvements in diet and health - reduced incidence of diseases like tuberculosis - reduced exposure to ambient temperature extremes It doesn't mention alcohol, but alco
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by walleeee 7y ago
I think you're describing something like a hybrid social network/semantic web with versioning, knowledge provenance, and asynchronous peer review. One serious problem for any such system is ontology selection: how is one to repres
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by walleeee 7y ago
Yeah, they do. But it can still be meaningful to boycott the services.
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by walleeee 7y ago
Being forced to use a product at work is one thing, but is it really that difficult to opt out of Facebook and Google in one's personal life? Unless one needs to advertise a personal business or something, the former is as easy as de

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