crackrook

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by crackrook 3mo ago
Privilege endures. The lucky player gets a good roll against the odds, the privileged player casts loaded dice. You can be privileged because you were once lucky (e.g. you were born to parents who bequeathed their loaded dice to you), but y
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by crackrook 6mo ago
This is probably a bit unhinged but sometimes I will talk to an AI about my interpersonal problems as if I am the other party. I feel that this can be helpful for better understanding the other person, mainly because I first have to make an
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by crackrook 9mo ago
Ruminant meat production is estimated to release 62 grams of CO2-Ceq per gram of protein raised. Pork: 10 grams, legumes: 0.25 [1] I think maybe beef would be more expensive, in a more-just world; Though of course I sympathize with restau
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by crackrook 10mo ago
I don't know anything about Google's architecture but I would guess that the average Gemini request per search query is < 1, surely there's a lot of caching that can be done and a lot of money to be saved by doing so.
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by crackrook 1y ago
Yes, in my interpretation, though not in isolation. > It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a
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by crackrook 1y ago
You originally expressed surprise that skeptics hold this book in high regard. I just find your surprise a bit difficult to understand. If, on the whole, the work advocates for skepticism (among other things), wouldn't endorsing it be
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by crackrook 1y ago
I read those Sagan quotes as a criticism of capital "S" Skeptics, those for whom skepticism is an identity perhaps more than it is a means to an end. I feel that Sagan's ultimate goal is to foster skepticism (or at least a
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by crackrook 1y ago
Just reacting to the executive summary: where are the tradeoffs? The port decreased memory usage on the client significantly, by how much did the server's burden increase? How have their hosting costs changed now that less work is bein
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by crackrook 1y ago
> I'd love to collect on this debt somehow when you're proven wrong in our lifetimes. Sorry, this is a thread on an internet forum, I'm afraid I don't owe you anything. If you want to engage with the actual points I&#
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by crackrook 1y ago
First, "conspiracies can't be true" was definitely not the point. You're right, conspiracies happen, governments do keep secrets! The point was: if a conspiracy theory with poor evidence were to be a reasonable expla
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by crackrook 1y ago
Sorry, dumb thing to write. That's not at all Occam's razor is and I clearly need to get educated.
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by crackrook 1y ago
The person you're replying to wasn't the one who invoked what you call "partisan thought short circuiting," (which, I have to say, reads a lot like parody). It was me. Occam's razor is not at all about "what
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by crackrook 1y ago
> the correct scenario is wide declassification It sounds to me like you and I see the same expansive hole where the evidence should be. My preference would be to say "show me a claim without a hole or stop wasting my time," yo
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by crackrook 1y ago
Before we had the instruments to observe them directly we could theorize about the existence of bacteria because we could indirectly observe them through their effects on our biology and even their macroscopic effects on populations, effect
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by crackrook 1y ago
> You can think they [...] aren't credible I think I'd pick this one as being the simplest and most likely explanation if my other options are "psy-op[s] with vague parameters" and non-human intelligences sharing the
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by crackrook 1y ago
> Are you tired of being required to run `sudo apt update` just before `sudo apt upgrade` or `sudo apt install $PACKAGE`? Is `sudo apt upgrade --update` really that big of a QOL improvement over `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgra
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by crackrook 1y ago
I understand that this meant to be a cautionary tale more than a formal argument, but I wish the author wouldn't use "will" in place of "could" or "might" when presenting this extrapolation. Frankly I thin
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by crackrook 1y ago
You can get nose hard too! https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon_rhinitis
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by crackrook 1y ago
Personally I like my programs to be as performant as is reasonable , not just as is necessary. Rust's low-cost abstractions strike the right balance for me where I feel like I'm getting pretty solid ergonomics (most of the time)
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by crackrook 1y ago
I don't fundamentally disagree but I feel there's a selection bias at work here. I'm not an economist, but: maybe the things that could have a market bolstering effect are - by nature - harder to identify because they represe
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by crackrook 1y ago
> software developers nowadays fall mostly in the top 1-2%[1] > [1] Beware of estimates of the “average income of the top 1%.” That average includes all the richest people in the world. You only need to earn the very bottom of the 1%
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by crackrook 1y ago
> Most people have the common sense to avoid using the stuff without very good reason I agree that most (not all) people have the common sense to avoid the stuff most of the time . I think things would get dangerous if these substance
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by crackrook 1y ago
I totally believe that treatment should be the focus for drug users; the only focus, even. What I'm having trouble believing is that convenient access to drugs would not result in net-harms that are worse than those inflicted by (imper
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by crackrook 1y ago
When I bought weed as a teen, I bought from all kinds of characters, but meth and opiates were never on the menu for me.
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by crackrook 1y ago
At least in my circles I'd have a much harder time getting access to meth or heroin than I would a product that can be bought from a special store. I imagine there are many individuals like me, but I'm not sure, which is why I a
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by crackrook 1y ago
I have a few reasons I might more willingly accept the legality of alcohol, I believe they're also the reasons prohibition didn't work: 1. Alcohol is deeply embedded in human culture, to get a significant portion of society to s
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by crackrook 1y ago
Yep I misunderstood "legal" to mean "regulated like alcohol/tobacco" or "unscheduled" in this context and "decriminalized" to be the colloquial term meaning "legal to own and use but illegal
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by crackrook 1y ago
I see. I understood "legalization" to mean the same thing in this context that it means for cannabis, e.g. legal to distribute/purchase for recreational use. I should have clarified, thank you.
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by crackrook 1y ago
I know we have data that shows just how harmful the war on drugs has been, but I'm curious if we have data showing that legalization in a modern society, with global supply chains and marketing campaigns, does not result in a bunch o
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by crackrook 1y ago
I saw Joe Rogan share the same graph to support his claim that scientists don't know anything about the climate and that the ones who claim to all have conflicts of interest; I can't recall if it came before or after the ad-break

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