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Hmm. Maybe what "counts as an observer" is relative to your reference frame, and so is the concept of "superposition". And thus, though the cat is making observations within its en…

I love your advice for beginners (last 3 paragraphs of your comment). It definitely rings true that the attainment of desirelessness can become a desire in itself, just another dra…

> I mean, what data is going to get extracted? Your favorite color? For instance, a log of every time I turn my lights on and off? Coupled with of course all kinds of fingerprintin…

Sure, but what debt does the average person own which is eroded? The money in their bank account.

For an article about privacy and not being snooped on, some HTTPS would be nice! But then again, the author could understandably reply that TLS is an example of a system that has e…

I can relate to the feeling of anxiety when the all-too-short weekend is drawing to a close. Glad you put this up! Hope it helps you feel a little more in control and able to do so…

> you can choose what companies you interact with but you can't choose your government. On the contrary, you can vote to change your government, but the corporations get to do what…

Yes.

I've long wondered about this as well. I think asking questions would be an important part of any self-editing process.

Off topic, but I really, really wish we could stop overloading the word "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrencies when it already is an abbreviation for cryptography. It's worse when w…

I didn't read the article, and I know it's more about math than an actual plan, but as a tangent I wanted to say that there's a cost to preventing rain from reaching the earth - ev…

This seems really disingenuous, like you care more about dissing someone than understanding the pros and cons of using this tool that suddenly is one of the only ways to connect wi…

As others have mentioned a lot of this boils down to the wording of the 5th amendment. Specifically: "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…

Seems like (1) is doable, as long as it's opt-in. But if it becomes the default behavior, existing applications would break when they do something against the type system. I'm not …

Not OP, but read your comment and felt inspired to respond. I understand your mindset - in a sense, the absence of growth implies death, all life needs growth, etc. However, growth…

Totally agree that wealth creation is a thing distinct from distribution, and that it matters. However, I'm not aware of any metrics or markers for wealth creation - other than rev…

Right? As an aside, I was surprised by the repeated use of "climate hawk" throughout the article as an identity that we might be interested in taking on. Could they have said e.g. …

So for example if the person receives false ashes, as in the article, and then the ceremony is performed in which the "dearly departed's ashes" are scattered, but it's really unmix…

Off-topic, but I came here to say that my long-standing fear just came true about the word "crypto"; namely, that I totally misread it in TFA as meaning "cryptography" - which is o…

Cool, I'll bite. I don't know some of your mathy terms like "putative extensive transduction" or "anisotropy" so go easy on me. But I hear you say things like "Neural nets are nonl…

I get where you're coming from, but it's hard for me to watch you continue to balk at what people are saying to you. I am assuming good faith in your intentions to be scientific an…

I don't consider myself a good chess player at all, but I always thought the opposite way: When I'm ahead, I'm willing to whittle down both sides with even trades until they are le…

> a scientist while under the influence of neuroactive substances could be said to be ... irrational. Just for thoroughness, what's your rational, logical deduction that someone un…

That's hilarious. :) I agree that non-techies have plenty of ways that they're actually more balanced on average, and there are plenty of ways that a lot of techies probably seem s…

> privacy is inefficient. This is the main reason I despise it. Certainly not in all cases, maybe not even most? For example, it's efficient to have a private key to log in to your…