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Nigeria is a barely-functioning democracy, a wildly corrupt state: or is it ‘bias’ to say so?

https://freedomhouse.org/country/nigeria https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/nigeria https://www.cfr.org/article/nigerias-all-too-familiar-corrup...

Agreed

How long before the accursed crypto kids try to tokenise token generation with Exo clusters?

By analogy, there’s some loose link to be made between this and the Dark Forest Hypothesis.

Given that the internet is filled with explicitly predatory algorithms and deceptive ‘dark patterns’ both trying to attract attention, thereby extract personal data or cash from humans, letting them know you are a human is merely to invite attack.

There may be advanced civilisations hidden online, but we are not them.

Discuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

Pricing is uh, interesting. $250 ea. for devices, plus $75 mo. for ‘line’ rental

OP, please don’t keep us in suspense any longer: who is this for?

Indeed, a dimwitted article. The author seems keen to uncover ‘racist tropes’ and so on: ‘Challenging the notion of history’ appears to be the preferred route.

The contemptuous phrase ‘lifestyle business’ is just VCs saying the quiet part out loud. You want to run a company that feeds your family and provides some decent stable jobs, indefinitely? You must be a clown, they think.

The other memorably awful/ macho bullshit line I once personally heard when pitching an idea to a young thruster was: “Who gets fired?” by which the guy meant, whose jobs are on the line if you build your business successfully?

Not all games are zero-sum, I had to tell him.

This makes me think of monkeys cheerfully building their own cage.

Sorry, but I can’t just ‘cool-project-bro’ this one. Does nobody else have the faintest misgivings about where we’re at right now: human surveillance as just scratching a technical itch?

Apologies if this comes over all grumpy, but wow. Seriously.

Shein is basically a polyester company, as well as an even more egregious design thief. This makes them faster than the rest, as well as environmentally and socially undesirable.

i-combinators https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Interaction-Combinator...

Clickbait, deceptive title.

What the author means is ‘get real about continuous learning’

Of course it takes money to run experiments you can actually learn from, and the article is bereft of practical advice about doing this on the cheap.

However, I clicked. But you don’t have to.

Here’s hoping. Autism is pure hell for some families. Unless of course self-declared leaders of the ‘neurodivergent community’ declare such efforts to be genocidal, modern eugenics, and so on.

Relatedly, I was struck to see the recent breakthrough in curing congenital deafness condemned by members of the ‘deaf community’ on Twitter. So we unfortunately have good reason to expect the same kinds of folly here.

Can anyone explain why hot water tastes different to cold water? Is taste not separable from temperature or is there another mechanism at work?

This.

Hey, HN - what do you think the dodecahedron is for, or alternatively: what would you use it for?

fLORA

I swear this guy is the pinnacle of cheap wisdom. There are VC’s who are worse, but Seth never fails to disappoint.

Late response: thank you. Saved me some time thinking further on this.

Bad trip-haver here.

As a youth I was a moderate enthusiast for psychedelics (back when the goal was good clean fun, ie not spiritual enlightenment, cure for depression or modern mindfulness dingaling) but trust me, friends - you do not want an event like this in your life. Not even once.

I am glad there’s some pushback against the current wave of blithe and frankly under-researched psychedelics-as-panacea crowd.

Hmmm. Very interesting. I wonder if you could speed up your clever approximation still further with this approach https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09120.pdf

As an experienced pirate, I vow to attack this vessel and take her sweet cargo for mine own, you may depend upon it.

Very unsatisfactory discussion. Just a weird soup of all the current theoretical philosophical and neuroscientific models… with no ‘inevitable’ about any of it.

If I’m missing something important here, let me know.

Correct. The UK regulator (Ofgem) and thus UK consumers are being taken for a ride by windfarmers, who made these deals a precondition of building farms.

We will be paying them £2.5bn a year to not generate electricity by 2030

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/examining-challeng...

‘A wholly unsatisfactory state of affairs’ indeed

https://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/372-why-are-unsubsidised-win...

Agreed, this has nothing to do with passenger flight, and the pretense is gross.

Thin vernier -> thin veneer btw

> Not sure what the solution is but we need fewer sheep in development and less permissive licenses so developers doing unglamorous work can capture more of the value.

This is the nuts of it.

This is a great example of how bad nutrition data is, and why meta studies are to be treated with caution.

They took 45 studies, but 90% of them were either low or very low quality.

‘Overall, using the GRADE framework, 22 pooled analyses were rated as low quality, with 19 rated as very low quality and four rated as moderate quality.‘

Nonsense. Jeff Mills was a Skinny Puppy fan, and you can hear it. All the Belleville Three were heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and euro-electro, and you can hear that too. All of them namecheck a much richer and diverse set of influences than Chicago house, itself a refinement of disco, a far from strictly racially-defined movement. The UK was the first to wake up to US techno, long before the US did, if you actually know/ lived through the history. Then of course you have Plus 8, Tresor, Basic Channel and so on. You can try for an Afro-American imperial case, but it’s going to get factually unstuck fast.

The whole damn point was people dancing in a room together, not whatever authenticity tests you have in mind.

> Games are a lower resolution representation of the 'real' world.

Are they though? In the real world you’re playing at many unbounded activities at the same time, with no reward counter

Intuitively I agree with you, despite the unexpected ‘success’ of current approaches. What formalisms do you suggest?