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I've found my writing has stagnated due to lack of feedback. Unfortunately my friends and family don't seem interested enough in my writing to engage with it.

I suspect it is still important to get to know people and build trust in the flesh, even if having a remote leader can be good.

> I'm more scared of the stagnation world I feel ultimately goes straight to apocalypse. What apolcalypse is he worried about? Or is it the breakdown in politics, due to the stagna…

> The claim is largely that voters started to care more about politicians implementing their favorite policies than being the recipient of trickle-down graft. For me graft is a mor…

Could you be more precise in what you are responding to?

> When you look at how many bad decisions have been taken these past few years despite plenty of access to good information, this sentiment seems pretty out of touch… I'd argue we …

I've been thinking about these kinds of things a bit. PDE and FEA seem core to lots of interesting simulations. From chemistry and climate to engineering. Firedrake [1] and Fenics …

It can, but lots of interesting philosophy can need collaboration. Good philosophy of mind stuff should be informed by neuroscience.

One of my wishes is that it would support a hardware token like the yubikey for storing the private key, to make leaks less likely (although it might not be super performant).

>“ According to Maistre, any attempt to justify government on rational grounds will only lead to unresolvable arguments about the legitimacy and expediency of any existing governme…

This is one benefit of democracies. People can form alternate leadership structures with different strengths and focuses, without them trying to wrest power at unpredictable times.…

I'd rather not be rich or famous. If I happened to become either I'd try and leverage them in some way to help or form organisations that can navigate the hot mess of our societies…

For me trying to negotiate with people playing super hardball (ignoring social norms etc) makes me think they will not honour any agreements made. Because those rely on social norm…

I've not found it super useful myself. Maybe I was trying to use it for the wrong things? It seems like a good way of creating better understanding for yourself, a less good way of…

> The world is a giant ship with 8+ billion each with their own oar in the water. A vessel like that turns very slowly and with a danger on the horizon as complex and difficult to …

I've been thinking about how best to get people the information they need to deal with the climate crisis. I'm thinking about a community run portal to try and match person to the …

I wonder if you can monitor energy usage (with an external chip) and compare it to what is expected to catch major changes. So for the FPGA you could load it with a risc-v arch and…

> I bet that changes in society will accelerate. Nothing is the same except for change, but I argue the that second derivative of change is going to exponentially skyrocket. Whenev…

> We’re now in a post-individual human world. We’re now in a world that is controlled by these emergent goals of the corporations. I don’t think there’s any turning back the clock …

> So herding rabid cats seems to be the core skill. Cat herding only makes sense if you have an idea of what should be done. Herding for the sake of keeping everyone 'on the same p…

I would also argue that supporting efforts to understand where the methane is coming from would be good. For example Methane Sat[1] looks like it can cover a wide area and is comin…

> And regardless of morals, it's an inherently insecure paradigm. As well as this I think it slows communication of important issues and undermines trust. We need to be better at t…

> The reasoned response to climate breakdown is to start taking it seriously at a global level. Agreed! That should be the number one priority. I also agree that it is unlikely tha…

Apparently vehicle to everything [1]. The car industry seems to love V2* terminology. V2H is connecting an electric vehicle to a home to provide power in an emergency. [1] https://…

Trying for agi could be part of a reasoned response to climate breakdown. But I am not going count on getting a reasoned response any time soon.