SarikayaKomzin
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Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
People find it easy to be Utilitarians when they’re in the greatest number, don’t they?
Comment · 1 month ago
I have crippling imposter syndrome. Using AI really aggravates that.
Comment · 1 month ago
I want to be intrinsically motivated too, and I am a good bit of the time. But let’s not pretend intrinsic motivation is an infinite well. We can suffer intellectually from a lack of places to socialize our pursuits.
Comment · 1 month ago
> No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished.
- E.M. Forster, _The Machine Stops_
Abstraction is terrific and terrifying. It is the shoulders of giants we build upon, but when it begins to scale nonlinearly I fear it endangers us as much as enraptures us.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Why learn to code at all? The computers can do that for us. And so the rigorous, systematic thinking you need to practice in order to be a good programmer: all gone. The machines can be rational for us. We can just vibe.
This is how we manifest Forster’s _The Machine Stops_. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
Comment · 3 months ago
I’ve been considering using Odin and Raylib for this because of its similarities to Go, but using Go itself is appealing. Do you have any good resources for what you’ve learned, or is it an unexplored frontier?
Comment · 5 months ago
Reminds me of NumberWang from Mitchell and Webb’s skits.
Comment · 5 months ago
I have the same feeling on the back of my neck. I think it’s born from my crippling imposter syndrome, which is maybe a super power now.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s an interesting exercise to contrast Dune’s post-Butlerian Jihad world with the Hyperion pre-fall world’s reliance on AI. They could almost be in the same timeline.
Comment · 3 years ago
I quite like https://smashrun.com/, but, to be transparent, I pair it with Strava.
Comment · 4 years ago
Those dates are almost always not arbitrary. They're usually due to licensing and distribution agreements. Not trying to dissuade your from torrenting, but it's disingenuous to call those dates arbitrary. They're the simple reality of being in the content business, even originals aren't always fully vertically integrated, but that's certain the direction the industry is moving.
Comment · 4 years ago
Aristotle had this figured out thousands of year ago
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
> At the same time, Aristotle makes it clear that in order to be happy one must possess others goods as well—such goods as friends, wealth, and power. And one's happiness is endangered if one is severely lacking in certain advantages—if, for example, one is extremely ugly, or has lost children or good friends through death (1099a31–b6). But why so? If one's ultimate end should simply be virtuous activity, then why should it make any difference to one's happiness whether one has or lacks these other types of good? Aristotle's reply is that one's virtuous activity will be to some extent diminished or defective, if one lacks an adequate supply of other goods (1153b17–19). Someone who is friendless, childless, powerless, weak, and ugly will simply not be able to find many opportunities for virtuous activity over a long period of time, and what little he can accomplish will not be of great merit. To some extent, then, living well requires good fortune; happenstance can rob even the most excellent human beings of happiness. Nonetheless, Aristotle insists, the highest good, virtuous activity, is not something that comes to us by chance. Although we must be fortunate enough to have parents and fellow citizens who help us become virtuous, we ourselves share much of the responsibility for acquiring and exercising the virtues.
Even the Buddha was a prince before he was enlightened! With all that said, while I agree with the basic premise of this article, a good mental framework IS an important part of becoming a fulfilled person regardless of economic status. Money doesn't correlate directly with happiness, but it does make it a lot easier to pursue happiness when you don't have to worry about it.
Comment · 5 years ago
As has been said in this thread many times, there is a middle ground here: geniuses exist, of course, but are not necessarily solely responsible for great leaps forward in progress.
What’s also worth mentioning is that geniuses stand on the shoulders of abstraction, the most powerful (and scary!) force known to man. The more and more we abstract away problems, the more and more geniuses can scaffold on top of that abstraction. This compounding effect is more responsible for innovation than the admittedly gifted and great individuals who channel it.
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon