pmohun
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Philip Mohun
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Comment · 11 months ago
I've always found The Republic the most approachable of the major works of philosophy. Even so, I struggle with the prose.
It made me think: is there a better way to read the classics?
The result: a iMessage interface that presents The Republic in a fresh way.
Comment · 2 years ago
Strange but true: p5 was a major component in the recent popularization of generative art — a branch of computer art that relies on computer generated visuals based on random seeds.
p5 was a core dependency for Art Blocks, a popular Ethereum art platform that gained popularity due to its asset class of entirely generative artworks.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It was his willingness to spend inordinate amounts of times working out answers to problems himself, instead of trusting the work of others. He explains in his autobiographies that this gave him a “different set of tools” than other people, which allowed him to tackle problems that others couldn’t or wouldn’t because they seemed insignificant.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It will be interesting to see the next version of robots.txt that begins to appear in public repos to prevent this type of data scraping.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s a good question.
The reason that GDP growth is so important is because it raises the standard of living for those who aren’t yet born. If you accept the premise that lives in the future matter just as much as those today, then the vast majority of human lives are yet to be born and therefore deserve consideration about what to do __today__.
Even small changes in GDP growth (e.g. 1-2% per year) has dramatic compounding effects over a multi decade timeframe.
For a great book on this, I recommend Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments which discusses the ethics of economic growth: https://press.stripe.com/stubborn-attachments
Comment · 4 years ago
this was a lot of fun. thanks for sharing!
Comment · 4 years ago
You just accidentally rediscovered Zeno’s paradox