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Comment · 6 days ago
The lumping is problematic because it's putting him on a level with the others who (a) discovered; things that were (b) true. The fact that he popularized concepts that had been thoroughly investigated by others (e.g. Nietzsche) with accounts were leaps and bounds ahead of the evidence does not put him at the same tier of the pantheon as those others.
Comment · 4 months ago
Did you consider some kind of arrangement of the notes that is less "equal-tempered", and that would highlight the harmonic relationship between the notes? probably would need to be key-specific.. or maybe rather now would you that fable is back?
Comment · 5 months ago
> Rationalists are inventing oligopolies from first principles, absolutely incredible things happening in SF.

Based.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
"Matter" is an abstaction. Mind, properly considered, (i.e. not with words) is not.

Strict adherence to Occham's razor would have us dispense with the former, but the latter is useful empirically.

There is some dogmatic insistence in GP, but equally dogmatic throwdowns on the other side of the argument are often passed over as trivially obvious.

I don't know what's what, but I think this insistence is a useful counterweight.

Onuses are on whomever says they exist ;)

Comment · 5 months ago
Just get an eink phone? They're $300 and come with slowness built in.
Comment · 5 months ago
Well, no. The LLM is just better than you in a narrow band that appears wider to someone below than above.

From above, or from below with adequate exposure, it feels facile and hollow. It is good at weaving grammatical structures. It is not good at thinking in words in a way that invites a fellow human along for the journey. Because it doesn't think.

Comment · 5 months ago
they're referring to the changes they tried to upstream to zig.
Comment · 6 months ago
seems like it'd be fairly straightforward to get things setup where text blocks are double click to edit, have drag handles, delete buttons etc, and then you can also use surfingkeys to get vim style navigation.

overall i'm seeing a potential here for more human authoring, as you can really multiply the surface of your inputs with deterministic widgets rather than just delegating.

Comment · 6 months ago
My first thought as well, but you can imagine how dangerous it would be if special forces started tanking their performance due to betting market considerations.
Comment · 6 months ago
lol and github is the primary obstacle to that in today's software engineering
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe you and others would be less flippant if you had any idea how trivial these forces are compared to the pressures of denial and gaslighting survivors of sexual abuse face e.g. from their entire families.
Comment · 1 year ago
pretty sure if you un-downtime a non-safari browser it applies to all websites.
Comment · 1 year ago
most humans would not assume that since most humans are not heavily primed by logic puzzles.
Comment · 1 year ago
standard notation is much better for learning to see and hear patterns too.

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