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I think this is interesting, but perhaps for reasons other than intended. I think it shows the formation of the post-war mythology that Germans used to explain to themselves how th…

> just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and material. You're right …

Ultrasonic knives have been available for non-food uses for a long time. They are useful in certain narrow applications, such as cutting leather or some plastics. That said, they c…

I would be surprised if that's the case. For commonly-used functions, you quickly learn knob shapes and their general locations. I'm sure you can adjust volume without looking in b…

Well, if you define leaders as people who do the things outlined in the article, then sure, it tautologically describes the traits of leaders. But then, it means that Steve Jobs wa…

No, but these are slogans that seldom survive contact with reality. "Managers Hoard Information. Leaders Overshare." - sure, until they don't. Because as companies grow, the probab…

Sure, but if I said that, I'd have a response saying that actually, it's not true. So let's start with a conservative number. It still doesn't add up.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Yes, if you're truly exceptional, you can get in the US. You can also get into any other country in the world. And the Trump administration do…

> A core strategic strength of the US over the last century has been that everyone with any talent wants to come here to work, and by and large we’ve let them do so. That's largely…

I think you're addressing the wrong part of the argument. Of course there are loose associations between concepts that manifest on abstract word-association tasks. It is a consider…

I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse. Since you can't exhausti…

I think it's just clunky, like "a pencil can be used for a recipe". My first take is "wait, are we cooking a pencil? or stirring with it?" The first meaning of "use for a recipe" i…

> It's a cute "how do I reach these kids?" idea But... which kids? Do we have a fundamental problem reaching kids who are interested in basketball? My kid had a period of being int…

"Having" and "willing to use" are two things, right? The problem is that the US, for the most part, no longer has any appetite for projects that leave the landscape scarred and the…

I really don't think that's a good example. That's someone who designers hold in high esteem. Most people today would not buy products with these aesthetics. Granted, I does hold u…

> I think using GenAI for learning is cool and exciting (especially for autodidacts) I don't know. I've been trying, but I think there are two fundamental issues. First, I don't th…

Isn't that just a lot of words to say "my taste is objective / rooted in reason, other people's tastes are a crapshoot"? Can you prescribe some specific test to tell objective desi…

I mean, yes? You're not violating the 4th. We have plenty of other laws, including laws against trespassing, that might apply here.

Ah yeah, I stand corrected. I didn't realize this is a paper by the original team that found the number a while back, I thought it's an independent formalization in 2025.

The research into BB numbers is purely academic and unlikely to be more than that, unless some other part of mathematics turns out to be wrong. Our current understanding is that th…

You're literally arguing that a government intelligence agency couldn't find a couple of experienced people, provide them with commercially-available equipment, and get them to coo…

What's the part that's hard to imagine? It's literally just a boat ride to a publicly-known location that isn't monitored in any way, diving to a depth humans can dive to, placing …

> The appropriate place to find out what is and isn't true is research. Do research, write papers, discuss results, resolve contradictions in findings, reach consensus. Few hot-but…

"Metacybernetics" is a concept with a small handful of Google hits, some of which appear to be obscure research papers and some appear to be metaphysical crackpottery on blogs. I t…