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The future you're describing is Wall-E.

> The audiophiles were right, however. No, they weren't actually. It's fine to enjoy vinyl. I have some myself, but the audiophiles were no more right about sampling rates than the…

Norbert Wiener in 1960: "As is now generally admitted, over a limited range of operation, machines act far more rapidly than human beings and are far more precise in performing the…

Yes, it is autonomous to excess and lacks the moderating curiosity one would expect from a human collaborator that would check over-eagerness and prevent it from committing costly …

Plato is delightfully weird and engaging and way more fun to read than Aristotle, agreed.

Actually reading Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics is worth it. Not because he's right about everything (he has some pretty messed up and weird views), but because it's challenging a…

It would be generally beneficial for people engaging in this sort of discussion to read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations”. Not a summary. Read the actual book, s…

Funny enough, I didn't know, but your comment made me look it up, then I tracked down a PDF of the book, read the relevant section, and wrote my reply. So, even if I didn't help yo…

It comes from C. Northcote Parkinson's work, where he calls it "The Law of Triviality". The idea is that people clog up decision-making by introducing a swarm of issues that have l…

The analogy to malaria is pretty on point. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is, you nailed it, prophylactic. It's not as good as a vaccine would be, and it's not as cheap as a one-a…

While HIV vaccine research is an exciting field, it's worth pointing out that halting HIV transmission is, practically speaking, a solved problem with oral and injectable reverse t…

Based on the content of the post, it seems like it would be adequate to find an email platform run by people not vocally calling for the ethnic cleansing of minorities.

It is aggressively proactive in ways that make it very hard to use. I had to turn down the effort level to “low” to stop it from going off in random directions every couple of turn…

I've been vibecoding a ton for the past 9 months, built a bunch of cool little apps for myself with AI, ran experiments, built an entire SDLC on skills, did the agent orchestration…

I’ve been leaning into audiobooks for the past two years and it’s completely revitalized my intellectual life. I feel alive in ways I’d forgotten. And it extends beyond audiobooks …

I got a lot of questions about the names of root level linux directories, which while good knowledge doesn't seem to fit under the title description.

There's a download button at the bottom of the player.

True, and penalizing misbehavior is a big part of the solution here, but it's also true that there are practical social limits on behavior (including competitive behavior), and the…

The standard scored against was mostly good, although his preferred column width was pretty arbitrary, and the best line-height can depend on the context of a piece of text and its…

Plato's procedural/dialogical approach to learning is also vastly superior to the Kantian/illuminist 'one and done' understanding of proof and discovery. Kant was a funny sort of p…