Firstly, getting this out of my chest: It felt like a really good note, except for the graphs. The author acknowledges that he is pulling the Bell curve out of his ass, but somehow serves to illustrate his point. But…
It's amazing how the whole world can be in turmoil about a presence we barely bothered to actually look at because there's simply no point in doing so.
This is the only reason I chose not to delete some old accounts from different sites, and check on them yearly-ish. I used to think the internet as ephemeral, but I don't have that luxury as long as anyone else doesn't.…
>Y2038 is in your walls Fuck me, as this is true
Related: Samo Burja is a sociologist with a pretty tidy and poignant YouTube channel. He has a lot of stuff on human institutions (from corporations to civilizations), their underlying social mechanics and what makes or…
I found this so baffling that the best I can say is I don't know, and I've found no explanation satisfactory. "Denial" doesn't cut it, it's mass delusion. The first Chinese quarantine was a giant red flag that nearly…
Which brings us back to the matter at hand; devastating plagues have happened many times in Europe. This one is probably not going to be devastating, but we really don't know the effect of this disruption in today's…
But back to the discussion about the WHO, their bland attitude is greatly to blame for the inaction of the CDC, and the rest of the world. As a case study, for some days half of all confirmed cases outside of China were…
They showed a strong unwillingness to declare the high state of emergency from the start, which dragged the numbers 30 fold through delayed action. They were the one institution with the moral authority to drive…
>the feeling of working for public good and not for some profit-driven corporation. By advancing human knowledge you are arguably working for hundreds of profit-driven corporations at a time
>AI-fueled eternal September We will see in our lifetimes how droves of spureous personas flood the internet forever
I wonder if one could earn a living as a professional shitposter for AI training purposes.
secret mind control programs. The human brain, being a computer, is expected to be alterable. But the extent of secrecy, shadiness and memory-holing of secret government programs never ceases to amaze.
>Mathematics was never focused on proof until the formalization of math became popular approximately 100 years ago. We are transitioning surprisingly fast from kinda explaining stuff to automatically and systematically…
The second tribe sounds more like engineering than science though
It's a good learning opportunity then, and it should be pointed out
Professional lawyers posing as peers psychologically tortuting him to shatter his worldview, while the professor that led the experiment manipulated him to continue. Given that he secluded himself and wrote about his…
Imagine if the NSA suddenly had to spy on 5 million people. Oh wait.
"I am 12 and what is this" needed a comeback
I've posted several times about law lagging behind technology, and this is what I mean. If a new tech is in the horizon, you should already be able to realize what can be done with it, what damage it can cause. I can't…
People discussing stuff and having those daily inconsequential political debates is what shapes society and culture. I do understand the practicality of the advice, and I've implemented it in the past, but so just…
This is why I liked their C2 approach
>Colonizing Mars with a small team of experts Like the thousand people in Antartica right now? I just wouldn't call it colonization. >The lack of a plausible business model which could profit from having people live on…
Perhaps the real evolutionary advantage of Sapiens was abstract thinking put to use in advanced sexualization of different species.
Goes to show that every field has its own inferred "dark matter" of sorts.
Firstly, getting this out of my chest: It felt like a really good note, except for the graphs. The author acknowledges that he is pulling the Bell curve out of his ass, but somehow serves to illustrate his point. But…
It's amazing how the whole world can be in turmoil about a presence we barely bothered to actually look at because there's simply no point in doing so.
This is the only reason I chose not to delete some old accounts from different sites, and check on them yearly-ish. I used to think the internet as ephemeral, but I don't have that luxury as long as anyone else doesn't.…
>Y2038 is in your walls Fuck me, as this is true
Related: Samo Burja is a sociologist with a pretty tidy and poignant YouTube channel. He has a lot of stuff on human institutions (from corporations to civilizations), their underlying social mechanics and what makes or…
I found this so baffling that the best I can say is I don't know, and I've found no explanation satisfactory. "Denial" doesn't cut it, it's mass delusion. The first Chinese quarantine was a giant red flag that nearly…
Which brings us back to the matter at hand; devastating plagues have happened many times in Europe. This one is probably not going to be devastating, but we really don't know the effect of this disruption in today's…
But back to the discussion about the WHO, their bland attitude is greatly to blame for the inaction of the CDC, and the rest of the world. As a case study, for some days half of all confirmed cases outside of China were…
They showed a strong unwillingness to declare the high state of emergency from the start, which dragged the numbers 30 fold through delayed action. They were the one institution with the moral authority to drive…
>the feeling of working for public good and not for some profit-driven corporation. By advancing human knowledge you are arguably working for hundreds of profit-driven corporations at a time
>AI-fueled eternal September We will see in our lifetimes how droves of spureous personas flood the internet forever
I wonder if one could earn a living as a professional shitposter for AI training purposes.
secret mind control programs. The human brain, being a computer, is expected to be alterable. But the extent of secrecy, shadiness and memory-holing of secret government programs never ceases to amaze.
>Mathematics was never focused on proof until the formalization of math became popular approximately 100 years ago. We are transitioning surprisingly fast from kinda explaining stuff to automatically and systematically…
The second tribe sounds more like engineering than science though
It's a good learning opportunity then, and it should be pointed out
Professional lawyers posing as peers psychologically tortuting him to shatter his worldview, while the professor that led the experiment manipulated him to continue. Given that he secluded himself and wrote about his…
Imagine if the NSA suddenly had to spy on 5 million people. Oh wait.
"I am 12 and what is this" needed a comeback
I've posted several times about law lagging behind technology, and this is what I mean. If a new tech is in the horizon, you should already be able to realize what can be done with it, what damage it can cause. I can't…
People discussing stuff and having those daily inconsequential political debates is what shapes society and culture. I do understand the practicality of the advice, and I've implemented it in the past, but so just…
This is why I liked their C2 approach
>Colonizing Mars with a small team of experts Like the thousand people in Antartica right now? I just wouldn't call it colonization. >The lack of a plausible business model which could profit from having people live on…
Perhaps the real evolutionary advantage of Sapiens was abstract thinking put to use in advanced sexualization of different species.
Goes to show that every field has its own inferred "dark matter" of sorts.