mudita

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The Bay Area is cursed(sashachapin.substack.com)
3 points by mudita 1y ago|2 comments
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by mudita 2y ago
While some problems are actually solvable with just pencil and paper, this is not a requirement and the intention of the project is that problems will be solved with a combination of insight and coding. From the Project Euler website: &quot
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by mudita 2y ago
The game is a bit weird. It often offers very bad deals, without an option not to invest. For example for the Gibraltar strait, the game gives the information that the probablity of success is between 90% and 100% and that it’s been travers
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by mudita 2y ago
I wouldn’t say that movies per se are parasocial, but if you behave and feel like you have a relationship with somebody in a movie, then it’s probably parasocial. To a degree it’s also quite normal to have parasocial reactions to personaes
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by mudita 2y ago
It not only doesn’t require interaction, the lack of interaction is what makes is parasocial.
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by mudita 2y ago
I didn’t know the term sinosphere until now, thanks for making me aware of it.
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by mudita 3y ago
As far as I know, it is possible to have the entry "ohne festen Wohnsitz"(without a permanent residence) instead of a mailing address in a German passport and he's legally not allowed to use his parents address, if he's
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by mudita 3y ago
I just wanted to say, I stumbled upon your website a few years ago through the Tromp-Taylor rules of Go and found the things you do impressive and inspiring. It’s a nice surprise to see you commenting here.
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The spirit does whatever it wants with you(sashachapin.substack.com)
2 points by mudita 3y ago|0 comments
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by mudita 3y ago
I’m not talking about the AfD here, but trying to quickly answer the question how banning political parties can seen as justified in principle: Banning a political party is an important instrument in a wider philosophy known in Germany as “
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by mudita 3y ago
That sounds more like the BahnCard 100, which costs 4.339 Euro per year. The Deutschlandticket is only valid for slow, regional trains, not faster long distance trains.
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by mudita 3y ago
The thing that made me transition from a mindset of “I have a body” to “I am a body”, was actually Zen meditation. This was surprising to me. Before I tried it, I thought of meditation as a purely mental thing, I didn’t expect that the firs
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by mudita 3y ago
Are you familiar with the Hacker News Guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )? “What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
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by mudita 3y ago
The German theatre world developed the opposite convention, “Bühne links” (literally "stage left”) means left from the perspective of the audience. I don’t know so much about the theatre world, I’m a professional dancer, but at least t
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by mudita 3y ago
A very imperfect analogy: Imagine alien scientists had studied humans, but only in prison, and then created a model of social behaviour around their observations of prison gangs with a lot of fights to establish hierarchies and who has pref
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by mudita 3y ago
The English word "police" actually comes from the Ancient Greek "polis". E.g. from the etymology section of the Wikipedia article on police: "First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a rang
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by mudita 4y ago
Is this true? The author Charles Stross wrote "Your typical book publisher is not like the music or movie industry; they run on thin margins, and they're staffed by underpaid, overworked folk who do it because they love books, not
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by mudita 4y ago
IMO Worth the Candle ( https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle ) is the one exception.
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by mudita 4y ago
There is a note on Aaronson’s blog post: "[Note for people who might be visiting this blog for the first time: I’m a CS professor at UT Austin, on leave for one year to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. I acce
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by mudita 4y ago
As far as I know, Scott Aaronson has been on leave from UT Austin to work on theoretical foundations of AI safety at OpenAI since June 2022: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6484
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by mudita 4y ago
Yeah, a lot of historical swords like the Roman gladius or the longsword actually had two edges. It's just effective weapon design (mainly it makes it better at thrusting), not a danger to the user.
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by mudita 4y ago
This blog by a classicist claims that the word salary is indeed coming from the latin words salarium and sal, but that it is not clear what the connection is, that there is neither evidence for the explanation that Roman soldiers were paid
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Highlights from the Comments on Jhanas(astralcodexten.substack.com)
2 points by mudita 4y ago|1 comments
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by mudita 4y ago
Yeah, but maybe you shouldn't model your conversations on Churchill: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3109#comic
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Eager Readers in Your Area (short story about AI art)(archiveofourown.org)
2 points by mudita 4y ago|0 comments
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by mudita 4y ago
The author has a degree in computer science and worked as a programmer and technical writer before becoming a full-time science fiction author, so yes.
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by mudita 4y ago
You slightly misremembered the invisible gorilla test, a classical study about inattentional blindness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness#Invi... Somewhat fittingly "the basic Simons and Chab
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by mudita 4y ago
Here’s an old slatestarcodex post with a collection of more “sentimental maps”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/19/sentimental-cartograph...
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by mudita 4y ago
The linked article explicitly claims that <article> does not correspond to our first intuition from plain language and that it's more like an "article of clothing" than a written article.
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by mudita 4y ago
I find it interesting how much Cthaeh, the Simurgh from the web serial “Worm” and Prometheus - the god of foresight - from Scott Alexander’s short story “A Modern Myth” ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/27/a

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