katabasis

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by katabasis 4mo ago
You're assuming that we're going to see a transition to a new administration with different priorities in the near future.
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by katabasis 11mo ago
It's capitalism – the true "artificial intelligence" that has been organizing human life for the last ~200 years or so.
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by katabasis 11mo ago
I think Vue.js has done a great job of avoiding a lot of the churn while staying competitive with other projects in terms of features and performance. The core library of React seems well managed, but the accompanying ecosystem of 3rd-party
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by katabasis 1y ago
Yeah pretty much this. One can argue that it’s idiotic to treat chatbots like they are alive, but if a bit of misplaced empathy for machines helps to discourage antisocial behavior towards other humans (even as an unintentional side effect)
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by katabasis 1y ago
LLMs are not people, but I can imagine how extensive interactions with AI personas might alter the expectations that humans have when communicating with other humans. Real people would not (and should not) allow themselves to be subjected t
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Knowledge Management in the Age of AI(ericgardner.info)
131 points by katabasis 1y ago|89 comments
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by katabasis 1y ago
The modern internet is filled with content designed to track, mislead, and manipulate users (especially young users who don't have a full set of critical thinking skills). I think it is totally appropriate to want to give families ( no
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by katabasis 1y ago
I'd love to see something like this that is marketed to parents or schools who want to give kids a way to access the good parts of the internet (Wikipedia, e-books, etc) without the toxic parts. Maybe throw in some kind of de-centraliz
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by katabasis 2y ago
Are you confusing Nussbaum with someone else? Her writing is way more straightforward than your typical fancy philosopher, and she is definitely a proponent of liberal/progressive views (I wouldn't call her a radical though). She&
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by katabasis 2y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure I'd use the term "Platonic" here, because that tends to have implications of mathematical perfection / timelessness / etc. But I do think that the corpuses of human language that we&#x
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by katabasis 2y ago
I am not a neuroscientist, but I think it's likely that LLMs (with 10s/100s of billions of parameters) and the human brain (with 1-2 orders of magnitude more neural connections[1]) process language in analogous ways. This process
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by katabasis 2y ago
Many philosophical traditions which incorporate a meditation practice emphasize that your consciousness is distinct from the contents of your thoughts. Meditation (even practiced casually) can provide a direct experience of this. When it co
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by katabasis 2y ago
I'm a fan of Carlo Rovelli's popular science books. "The Order of Time" in particular left a big impression on me. He is a philosopher as well as a scientist, and he has a gift for writing beautiful and accessible prose
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by katabasis 3y ago
Agreed – I enjoyed this article, but the conclusion (that philosophers or intellectuals may need to come to terms with self-censorship or obscurantism to avoid drawing the ire of the masses) strikes me as very pessimistic. We've gained
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by katabasis 3y ago
I live in Portland and I 100% agree with this. I say this as someone who voted for Measure 110 and now regrets that vote. At this point I would support a straight-up repeal. At least under the old system some people who were arrested were a
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by katabasis 3y ago
I don’t know what your particular interests are, but my suggestion would be to try to find some in-person group activities that align with something you are interested in. Take an art class at a community college, join a group for hikes&#x2
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by katabasis 3y ago
1. You are potentially giving a shield of deniability to people who create or distribute real CSAM because now they could claim that the images are just AI generated and therefore "harmless" 2. Efforts to stamp out real child abus
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by katabasis 3y ago
I also immediately thought of Nano Emacs when I saw this article. There is a short talk (6min) from EmacsConf 2021 where the creator of Nano Emacs talks about his reasons for designing a simpler interface, I found it really interesting: ht
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by katabasis 3y ago
This is a great first-contact novel, probably my favorite example of this genre. The book concludes with some ideas about the nature of consciousness that I found to be legitimately frightening. I read the book years ago but it feels even m
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by katabasis 4y ago
I run a small D&D group with a couple of friends. I don't know that I'd want to play in a campaign helmed by an AI dungeon master, but the idea of having some help generating plot, assets, etc. when I don't have a lot of
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by katabasis 4y ago
Private shared photo albums in Apple Photos are great for this. I have a small child and my wife and I live far from our extended families. Sharing photos and videos of our daughter via a shared album gives the same immediacy as posting to
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by katabasis 4y ago
There is something very immediate about just picking up a notebook and jotting down your thoughts. Same goes for reading and annotating a printed document. It's a reflex, encoded into muscle memory. The UX of the Remarkable is extremel
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by katabasis 4y ago
If you compare the features and specs of the Remarkable 2 with something like an iPad, it's easy to come to the conclusion that it is an over-priced niche product. But having owned one for over 2 years now, I feel like it is anything b
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by katabasis 4y ago
My take on the Fermi paradox is: * Life may not be rare in the universe but it is likely short-lived; intelligence even more so (now the possible extinction events are not limited to asteroid impacts or geological disasters, but also includ
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by katabasis 4y ago
I think that for Nietzsche ressentiment is more of a toxic by-product that is generated when traditional aristocratic or virtue-based morality (where "good" equals success, excellence, victory, etc) is inverted into modern moralit
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by katabasis 4y ago
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had a famous critique of Christianity and modern Western morality that operated along similar lines, spelled out most famously in the book "On the Genealogy of Morals". He contrasts Classical vi
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by katabasis 4y ago
Wikimedia Commons recently introduced a new MediaSearch feature (everything there is free by definition): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
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by katabasis 4y ago
I encourage anyone looking for freely-reusable images to try the new MediaSearch feature on Wikimedia Commons. Also works for other types of media files. All images on Commons are free to reuse but there is also a license filter if you are
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by katabasis 4y ago
If Republicans take back congress and the presidency in the next election cycles, a national abortion ban becomes a serious possibility. This is not just a "red states" issue. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05&#
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by katabasis 4y ago
Thank you! This is it. There isn't a lot of information online about this game (not even a Wikipedia article – though there is one for another 1992 game called "Maelstrom" that is unrelated). However, someone created an old-s

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