Being obsessed by the MBTI personality theory for months
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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#402It's a little bit dated now, but the C2 wiki is a fun place to read about software development. There are quite a lot of patterns, anti-patterns, practices, rambling debates and just generally interesting ideas: http://wiki.c2.com/?DesignByCommittee
Absolutely love C2. Filled with funky little gems about finding meaning in life and work.
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#403I know it's weird, but I enjoy reading the court motions from bankruptcy proceedings. You can actually learn a lot about corporate structure this way.
Of particular interest was the bankruptcy of Target Canada: https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/target-canada-co-et-al/moti...
The affidavit of Mark Wong, then General Counsel for Target Canada, in support of the filing, provides a lot of insight into how a large corporation would structure their business endeavour into another country: https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/sites/default/files/Affidav...
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#404Being obsessed with the MBTI personality theory for months
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup" is one of the greatest pieces of political writing ever. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
It's interesting how much this reads like footnotes to Derrida , especially in the beginning (other cliffnotes here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#SH7c or http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ce/s6403/jacques_derrida.pdf if you feel like reading the original). It's nice to see ideas move from so theoretical that LW and associated communities would likely dismiss to digestible forms like this. It gives me hope for communicat…
I don't seem to have enough context to follow the point you are making. What are continental theorists? In what way are they apposed to the Less Wrong crowd?
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's almost part of the problem though. My feelings about LW/the Sequences/SSC/etc. are complicated with lots of positives and negatives-- way too much to summarize in an HN comment when I'm supposed to be working ;) -- but the main negative I was referring to here is that they are incredibly potent "insight porn". That term was originally coined to describe the work of hacks like Malcolm Gladwell, and while LW et…
Fair enough, I have had to make sure I don't lose myself as an insight junkie. When it comes to the consequences are you thinking of it damaging our ability to seek out insights for ourselves if they are so easy to read?
The double plus enhanced version of the old spell "Charm monster" now comes with an option to raise awareness of the wizard mode in it's victims.
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#407I posted a list of them a while ago. For several years I was interested in alternative worldviews -- grand sweeping theories of reality. Here's my list: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ Enjoy :)
There's also Chris Davis' Idle Theory: https://web.archive.org/web/20160513191724/http://www.idlex....
As Ran Prieur, owner of another similar rabbit hole, once put it: "The idea is that the purpose of life is not to accomplish something, but to do as little as possible."
Ran Prieur is here (anti-consumerism and beyond): http://www.ranprieur.com
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#408I'm surprised that no one mentioned wait but why yet: http://waitbutwhy.com
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#409Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…
Z62891 Sibling rivalry Y93G2 Activity, grilling and smoking food Y9286 Slaughter house as the place of occurrence of the external cause Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part X962XXA Assault by letter bomb, initial encounter X05XXXA Exposure to ignition or melting of nightwear, initial encounter
> Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part
That's horrifying.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#410 I'll start --- I once spent a couple days on a summer job looking through industrial incidents rel
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