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by rtikulit 26d ago
Without food sovereignty or at least multiple external sources of supply, we don’t have real sovereignty. While I may or may not support supply management, I don’t support any arrangement which could permit the USA to gradually undermine th
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by rtikulit 27d ago
Stand-alone bottom-up observations (even if valid) obscure the fundamental problem that AI (or "AI" if you like) is inducing systemic change across human civilization. If cohorts are graduating into the workforce with decreasing s
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by rtikulit 7mo ago
The concept “understand” is rooted in utility. It means “I have built a much simpler model which produces usefully accurate predictions, of the thing or behaviour I seek to ‘understand’”. This utility is “explanatory power”. The model may b
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by rtikulit 2y ago
I am going to try to tackle this from the positive side, but there's a lot that could be said, and I'm not sure I will be successful. There's no doubt that inherent physical attractiveness, extroversion, confidence and charis
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by rtikulit 3y ago
Small caps is a typographic technique to balance the appearance of strings of capitals in predominantly lowercase running text. The Economist is applying their style guide. I checked. It's not a subtle dis.
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by rtikulit 4y ago
Merino is just as itchy to me as any other wool, I can't wear any of it touching my skin. Drives me nuts.
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by rtikulit 4y ago
“Having contrary opinions” and “being a contrarian” are as similar as “having a glass of milk” and “being a cow”.
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by rtikulit 4y ago
I will agree that you are conflating and grossly oversimplifying a number of related but different issues. As a result your conclusions are just not valid. Does the educational system make age-inappropriate almost inhumane demands on childr
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by rtikulit 4y ago
My revelation came when I observed my oldest child in kindergarten (which was nothing like being glued to a seat). My child was the large and obvious behavioural outlier. Then the unbelievable process in grade 3 of coaching their attention
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by rtikulit 4y ago
ADHD is real, it deeply damages people's lives and it is usually treatable with stimulants, with an unusual degree of effectiveness. My psychiatrist told me up front that his diagnostic process was not directed towards ADHD and that he
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by rtikulit 4y ago
Everyone is different, and it's unfortunate that your friend's experience is not good, and that you don't know anyone with a healthy relationship with their medication. The truth is that lots of people manage their stimulants
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by rtikulit 4y ago
After first diagnosis, under the care of a psychiatrist, I went though a typical escalation over a couple years to reach 80 mg Vyvanse + 15 mg of Dexedrine per day. 50 + 10 at ~5AM and 30 + 5 at ~noon. That's about 40 mg of dextroamphe
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by rtikulit 4y ago
You are right that ADHD is a true neurological disorder that responds well to medication, but on everything else your are horrifyingly wrong. Medication alone is not a panacea for many people with ADHD and is most effective when coupled wit
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by rtikulit 4y ago
I think being "honest and ethical" is at its heart a useful strategy for organizing the collective work of individuals. It's part of the ethos required for building high-trust groups. Individuals within a group want to unders
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by rtikulit 4y ago
Are you claiming that all authorities, organizations, businesses and experts acted (and are continuing to act) largely in bad faith?
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by rtikulit 5y ago
In my model, "tribal membership" is associated to a subconscious response we have to others when we recognize "sameness" at some level, and we subconsciously lower our social transaction cost expectations with respect to
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by rtikulit 5y ago
"Easy to work with", "member of the tribe" and "charismatic" are separate categories because the model is intended to embody the truth that social factors dominate, and to give hope and direction to those who a
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I don't know. I drive standard. Maybe part of the reason I always stop is because I love a well-executed launch. :-)
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Factors 2-4 are meant to be social. Anything functional is covered in 1. I'm not in anyone's tribe and so I had to learn to not exhibit tribal signifiers at work, which I think gets me half a point?
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Those are great points. I have to think about how to incorporate them. I'm thinking that the four are still required to fully exploit the ones you've mentioned.
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by rtikulit 5y ago
My formula for success is similar. 1. Be good at your job (aka write good code). 2. Be easy to work with. 3. Be a member of the prevailing tribe. 4. Be charismatic. With all four, you're a superstar. Any three, great caree
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by rtikulit 5y ago
I'm struggling to respond constructively to your comment. Think about all the phenomena that make up "cognitive ability" and all of the possible dimensions and properties of "cognitive decline". It should be obvious
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by rtikulit 5y ago
On a public road I almost always come to a full stop, and if I don't I recognize it as an error. That's the law and there are very good reasons for it. It's an unambiguous standard of performance, for example. Arguments for r
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by rtikulit 5y ago
The point I'm trying to make is a corollary to “A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain". It's an acknowledgement that sometimes the customer is bikeshedding from start to finish. It's the recogniti
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Are you asserting there's no scope for invention in software development?
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Actually, "my" team's job is 1/2 asking the customer, and 1/2 not asking the customer so we can invent stuff they haven't thought of and ideally can't/won't think of. I think the reason people
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by rtikulit 5y ago
This may be true if you have no aspirations for your software beyond what your customer can imagine in the present. Almost seems like a methodology that has internalized learned helplessness.
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Obesity isn't exogenous, infectious or subject to exponential growth. Even a superficial consideration of the facts shows that analogies between obesity and covid are unsound.
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by rtikulit 5y ago
In the 80's and 90's I worked for/on companies/teams that had female devs. >4 times. Computing (at least the parts I observed) didn't seem especially hostile to women. I distinctly recall the sense that women jus
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by rtikulit 5y ago
Looks like you think I'm saying the opposite of what I'm trying to say. I have no idea how that happened, or how to fix it.

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