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It seems like you'd get a lot deeper understanding by doing it that way, and be much more able to adapt the knowledge to the real world, vs only knowing how to solve problems in th…

This is going to seem either beyond idiotic (which it may be) or a troll (which it is not) but: is this game actually fun? Like, if you have zero nostalgia or anything, and your ev…

A lot of life wisdom wedged into those two sentences, I think, that goes beyond journalism.

Sounds a bit like Gingko, which I used to really love: https://gingkowriter.com/

Are you saying the US is the only country that has an excess of applicants for entry-level positions? Or the only one for which credentialism is the solution to this problem? If th…

This looks like an absolute delight: "Cambridge University History of Mathematics Society presents an illegal, immoral, and fattening lecture series, without the endorsement, appro…

What would you suggest?

But in a larger frame, of "things tightly associated with coffee", they mean something extremely close. Whether these things are opposite from each other, or virtually identical, i…

Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.

There are psychological hypotheses that can be stated and tested empirically. So yeah, you can find people who maintain that it's a science.

Is org-roam still alive? Last release almost 3 years ago. Could be because it's nearly perfect, which, if so, great.

I didn't know this term before, thanks! Are there any examples (e.g., products you like) that demonstrate this One True Way in practice?

Emacs org-mode -- it's less visually obvious that it's exactly equivalent from a structural / hierarchical point of view. But the editing experience is infinitely better, because E…

Ironically, if it plays out this way, it will be the biggest boon to actual AGI development there could be -- the intelligence via text tokenization will be a limiting factor other…

It's all a matter of point of view I guess. Given that I replaced it with something costing zero dollars may explain my attitude. Also, the fact that it started out as basically fr…

You're thinking of this [1]. Super duper cool idea, ahead of its time. Author seems to have transitioned to a ludicrous pricing model, but I suspect it's because the people who lik…

That insight, or lack of it, is esp surprising giving the example of how sticky the Coke brand is.

I love a good analogy. Can you expand on this one?

I'm very curious, from the perspective that you have based on your experience at the retreat, what it means to you when you talk about "processing" these traumas? Maybe a very conc…

Makes me think of an interesting related question: how aware are we, normally, of our incoherence? What's the phenomenology of that? Hmm.

Brilliant analogy. And we can imagine that, in a sci-fi world where some super-being could act on a scale that would allow it to perturb the world in a fashion amenable to causing …

Ah. I was thinking the critique was about combining different crypto methods in serial; I've heard people say this is a bad idea but have never understood why.

> "Don't rely on a single cipher" is an anti-goal, and a reason your hobby project won't be taken seriously. Why?

It's interesting to imagine what a market solution would do to this. On the one hand, the vibe is very much "show up and let's talk like friendly socialized people" and I bet that'…