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https://www.shadertoy.com/ * Low friction, nothing to install, near instant feedback. * Fun starting at simple shapes, gradients, distortions, all the way to absurdly good looking …

For many cognitive processes, I don't see a clear survival value to conscious awareness of that process, so I don't expect that awareness to be a reliable feature. The survival rel…

I look at this like Multimedia and the web in 1995. Yes some of this is a shadow of Microsoft Bob. We don't know what we're doing with VR yet but the technology has crossed over th…

They're paying for credibility, but assigning the credibility to an organization instead of an open and understood process of vetting. This confuses me.

I think this is a reference class problem. One could also say software replaced work done in offices with work still being done in offices. (until recently) Most of the work was st…

Software is also part of the world, just a very different part.

Do you think abundance requires the current system?

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It's conceptually gridbeam. https://gridbeam.xyz/ General construction kit for real world applications. In theory you could take a machine apart and use the beams for some other ma…

This is the relevant paper. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...

If someone is subsequently charged with fleeing, having a reasonable belief that someone was impersonating officers could be an easier defense than merely fearing danger, however f…

Friendly suggestion to all that Bayes Theorem is the right way to deal with this kind of weak evidence. We should not adhere to arbitrary legal standards in our own thinking about …

I just signed up to prolific. Their onboarding tutorial/example survey references prescreening and eligibility. I'm guessing it was on researchers to filter the demographics to wha…

If 2x programmers are paid ~2x then the company is using some performance metric to influence pay, but then for pay to remain secret the performance metric also has to be secret.

You have to weight the validity of the reasoning across all turtle observers through history. If you reject probabilistic reasoning because it sometimes tell you things that are wr…

What's an alternate to that which would make sense in a different context?

There is virtually no real diversity in experimentation on social decision making processes. (Governments, Economies, Science) So debates devolve into some form of e.g. capitalism …

I agree with incentivizing health in general. Doing so without providing healthcare seems wrong. Doing so through income tax rates is muddling the issues. The rich would hire dieti…

It is unpopular among university and research institutions that get federal grants. Also development companies that win contracts to create government websites/backends. I agree wi…

MK here is a just a digraph, not an abbreviation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym

>only when "ownership" is artificially enforced by some sufficiently mighty entity with the power to do so is there anything to trade in the first place. Every instance of funding …

We haven't had photography for thousands of years, and it's reasonable to think that we are still adjusting to the implications. It's quite normal for people to be embarrassed when…

I was never able to whistle well until I learned to do it while inhaling which came out much louder and helped me learn a better mouth shape for whistling while exhaling.

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