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I have a feeling gaming is quite harmful for spatial skills in the long run, because you learn many different maps (often transient ones in rng-ed games), rather than one fixed one…

Psychological state is key, and I think you're understating it. The human mind is always passively working on problems. We are not necessarily aware of how much working memory is "…

That's a nice argument, though it doesn't hold relativistically

Kinetic energy is, strangely, quite a bit like a least squares cost function in an optimization problem. The "dt"s in "dx/dt" hardly matter; it basically represents "dx^2" between …

I read this kind of essay as a certain part of the arc by which new thoughts are formed: an act of large-scale pattern matching, laying out a bunch of cases which resemble each oth…

things which help other people make money are overvalued relative tothings which are valued intrisically

I suspect that, in reality, it is the indignity of poverty which motivates people to take up arms against each other. So long as dignity is retained, poverty may be emotionally bea…

To hold this view you have to think of information as "not real", not like "real" molecules and receptors, the mind as distinct from the body, and then restrict the legal definitio…

This ought to change your mind about Ruby!

Feels fairly likely, though I'm skeptical the Jeeves name recognition is much besides a novelty now.

Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.

The right read here is to realize that psychology alone is not the basis for moral concern towards other humans, and that human psychology is, to a great degree the product of the …

We as a society accept the insurance system as an implementation of "funding healthcare" because market capitalism is supposed to lead to lower prices, fair allocation of scarce re…

HN people always try to do this cute rhetorical gesture where you take a thing and say "hmm nice idea what if we called it ", but they like this joke so much they get baited into d…

I don't see how that's necessary at all. All the arguments that WFH might be a good idea in the first place would still hold.

I would love to have a coworking-space-on-every-block (or in every building) where all the WFHers can go to be around other people (just not the coworkers)

A reputation moat is still a moat. It seems to me that Lego prices will drop as soon as they are forced to by competition, and not before, and this is fine.

Prices are constrained by demand moreso than by cost of production. Lego pieces are expensive because they can be, they still sell, and this is largely due to the quality. As long …

It appears that the real lesson here was to lean quite a bit more on theory than a programmer's usual roll-your-own heuristic would suggest. A fantastic amount of collective human …

There's also a trip to Hawaii in it for you.

Your dismissal of moral concerns is not convincing. Imagine a world where the only energy you do is use was generated by a stationary bike you had to ride yourself. You would, gene…

Not every conversation is about AI. This one isn't.

this is false, it's been around for a while