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It's a slow motion motorcycle crash[0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

If you pretend not to use time, everyone will do an implicit time mapping in their head anyway. I've never seen it go any other way.

I think you sort of have to learn things this way. What else are you going to do? Trust random blogs and comments online so much that you'll ignore your inner compass, which drives…

Sometimes I read something on the internet and I think: finally someone has articulated something the way that I think about it. And it is very validating. And it cuts through a bu…

Thanks for giving your two bits on the matter.

At 250ml it's not far off a half pint.

Totally agreed. And as the sibling comment points out, it started before AI slop became a thing. I think it's because technological progress in typesetting means you don't have to …

> There's no non-physical "ghost in the machine" But of course there is a physical one, that at some point appears. Or, it is a kind of gradation that at its highest peak is a huma…

I didn't say I wasn't a materialist :). It's important for consciousness philosophers to have a sense of humour, I think (and remember the shortcomings of their own arguments).

Materialists always seem to forget that they're kicking the can down the road.

"The perfect should not be the enemy of the good" is the wrong analogy here. It's more like "death by a thousand cuts". Limitations on free computer usage are like a ratcheting mec…

You don't even need to "host" it per se, just include the icon source in the webpage. It's 315B.

Just drink a verification can before the boss fight to freeze ads for 30 minutes.

See: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

When I moved to London I used to love listening to ambient electronic music and taking the tube at night, and many of the quieter lines and back routes up emergency staircases and …

Maybe let's loop in other senses for a second. Since, presumably aphantasia doesn't apply to all senses? I can imagine the sensation of my tongue on a cold ice cream, and even the …

Honestly, your meditation experience sounds more like an altered state induced by the meditation, rather than confirmation of what non-aphantasiacs experience on a daily basis. And…

> I can draw things I imagine, even though I can't see them. This is what I mean though. What do you mean by "see" exactly, if not imagine? You can imagine something so clearly tha…

I really wish I could occupy your brain for a few minutes to see just how much of this is language. There's an amazing effect in this conversation where I remain convinced that bas…

It's hard to describe. I think there's more nuance here. When you ask "What colour was the apple?" then I can "fill in" the colour and imagine a "red" one. But it's more like the d…

My gut feel has always been that it is just a language thing where some people think that when others imagine things that they literally see it right in front of them _the same way…

It was Electron causing a shadow repaint, not Apple: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

Jumping on this thread to also highlight my main NY Times Games gripe: the Wordle keyboard will double register the same letter if you tap a neighbouring letter straight after. It'…

Rule 5: Don't be an endpoint. https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/futureproof-9-rules-hum...

Are you two using ChatGPT to generate these, or are you both fantastic at emulating the writing style? Because this is so spot on.