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This makes me curious about where you turn to when you have hard questions about design stuff. Do you primarily Google your questions, ask colleagues, ask the internet? Is there engineering/type of documentation for design? I know AOSP, but wonder if there's a UX-focused version of that.

Why would we ignore the medium if the medium is the message?

"The doctor told me I have a brain tumor. I don't feel sick. I ignored him. It's been two weeks and I feel fine."

To follow your line of reasoning, no one is physically stopping you from printing money. No one is physically stopping you from committing crimes to gain wealth.

White-collar crimes constitute 3% of federal prosecutions. Additionally, prosecutions have been on the decline for the past several years. Add "the fear of going to jail" to your list of illusions.

Maybe my Kindle will finally get a workout. Thank you!

That's terrifying. I'm reminded of one of my favorite books, There Is No Year by Blake Butler:

"There was a family living in a house. There was a father, a mother, and a son. The family all looked tired. Nothing ever really happened. The father drove places and got lost and walked around the house. The mother mostly cleaned and worried. The son would stand and sit and stand."

https://www.librarything.com/work/10387677

When I learned about this it was funny to me too. My living room has a huge window looking out on the square of my apartment complex. Everyone has to walk by my house to exit or enter the complex. I've sat and watched the window for hours. Literally hours. The closest thing to groceries I've seen is a box of Hello Fresh being delivered.

It's almost certainly a simulation. If you live in apartments, how often have you seen your neighbors do laundry or bring home groceries?

There's also this (short clip, start at 2:00). Note the reference to "The Big Lie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6UcgiDwg0&t=120

A 1953 German book's leader of Mars is called the "Elon": https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237...

I think Roko's Basilisk will turn out to be true within the next few decades.

Lazy trolling.

This is very insightful. I've personally gotten better at handling rejections, but it's still very difficult. The amount of effort individuals are expected to invest in each prospective job is mind blowing.

On top of my resume, you want me to fill out multiple text boxes with information about why I want to work at Random No Name Company, what I expect from my time there, what my personal ethos is... Then you ask me for a cover letter?! This is literally to just initiate a lottery where it seems the odds of the next step happening are less than 1%.

It's more brutal than dating. I do not envy any single engineers who are juggling both games.

Make them think we are nuts. Psyops. I guess some of us actually are nuts, though.

Awesome. Thanks for the recommendations. Making my own pizza would feel amazing I bet.

I shall attempt!

Oooh, this looks like a nice challenge and novel enough to be a real surprise. Thank you!

I wonder what people would say if mechanics were tested for their understanding of mechanical engineering intead of how to do an oil change. That's what the emphasis on computer science knowledge seems like to me. It has no bearing on whether I can style a button or create an API.

Woah. I'm glad you revealed this to me before I stumbled into a year-long yak shaving session.

What do you like to bake? I have never attempted. I would like to surprise my wife one of these cold winter evenings.

I live centrally, in my town. The nearest library is an hour walk. The bus would be at least 30 minutes. I'd have to know beforehand that I need to reserve a computer before using it, and that spots fill up quick. I'd need to get a library card to reserve the computer, which I need to do in person. I'd need the bus schedules, and presumably my device might not be capable of accessing that or I might not be knowledgeable enough. I'd need to have cash on hand to pay the bus fare, so I'd need to find an ATM or convenience store that offers cashback.

This labyrinthian effort is basically what being a poor person is like, on a daily basis.

Thanks for inspiring some hope in me Bart.

I think today will be a good day.

AGI is coming. In a contest, the only chance humans have is to work in tandem with AI.

Horror in the face of these changes seems to presuppose that humans have some inherent essence to lose. We're material. Nothing of consequence to our consciousnesses is beyond or beneath that. The more quickly individuals can shed any sense of preciousness with regards to being human, the more quickly they can integrate with the tools we'll need to survive.

All human knowledge is accessible through language. Gopher and GPT-3 emerged within months of each other. Within the next few iterations, one of these models will be able to change and reproduce itself.

The tide is coming in. Better to grab a surfboard than stand at the shore shaking your fist at the ocean.

I haven't tried any therapy. I'm not sure at what point the benefits outweigh the cost in time and money. I'll look into it further as I've honestly never considered it as a treatment for gastro problems.

Seriously, talk about tight feedback loops. Anxiety feels like somebody hooked it up to guitar amps. Any slight perturbance and alarms go off. I have not been super successful in mentally wrangling it, but there's always hope.

Sorry, this is not helpful. I guarantee you that anyone who suffers gastrointestinal disorders has considered their diet. The pain sometimes feel like a bottomless pit of suffering.

When the dude from Alibaba got disappeared for a few weeks, I said to myself, "Well, I won't be starting my next trillion dollar business there."

That makes sense. I'm not sure why the right to reason didn't cross my mind. Maybe I presumed it in the scenario I pictured. I'm not convinced that governments should have mandates to pursue truth at all costs.

I think the true danger is when there is little tension between government and the fourth estate. Government actions need interpretation and presentation, and when those functions lapse or are neglected, is when individuals begin losing the right to reason. To be able to make decisions presupposes that non-elites are presented with the decision in the first place. This is the context within which the naive commitment for truth is a virtue.

By the time Machiavelli wrote The Prince, the very act of writing the book was a tracer round to rampant political cynicism. Once an attitude or ideology is the target of satire, it has already bcome interwoven into a society. I presume that to be even moreso in eras where publishing had high cost.

There's also this naive commitment to truth. Yes, we want our mental models to be more accurate and predictive. What if a model results in an increase of net suffering? What is the role of a democratic government, to provide services to a society to lessen individual offering, or to pursue truth and align legislation at all costs?

ObservableHQ changed my life. Coding is fun again. I use it to quickly experiment with new libraries, fast prototypes, as proof of concept building, NLP stuff, etc. And I can do it all on my phone!

Thinking of BF2 still gets my blood pumping all these years later lol

I tracked every minute of my time several years ago, for about a year. The shock of how much time I was spending playing Battlefield is what helped me kick video games.

This is about as good as it gets with crypto.