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by sixo 3d ago
I imagine this is the referee's call; a ref ought to know better than to abort the game because the losing team is throwing a tactical tantrum.
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by sixo 1mo ago
I think this is definitely part of the problem. The senses are designed to all be involved in navigating a single, mostly-permanent world. Proprioception is supposed to orient within this permanent space. Whereas my proprioception has &quot
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by sixo 1mo ago
Subjectively, it gets much worse when I play a lot of of video games, and I am rapidly losing the ability to develop facility at new games. Of course this could just be said to be aging, or some other malady of the mind, but it feels distin
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by sixo 1mo ago
I have a feeling gaming is quite harmful for spatial skills in the long run, because you learn many different maps (often transient ones in rng-ed games), rather than one fixed one. I would not be surprised if an epidemic of early mental de
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by sixo 2mo ago
Psychological state is key, and I think you're understating it. The human mind is always passively working on problems. We are not necessarily aware of how much working memory is "tied up" on background computations, but when
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by sixo 3mo ago
That's a nice argument, though it doesn't hold relativistically
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by sixo 3mo ago
Kinetic energy is, strangely, quite a bit like a least squares cost function in an optimization problem. The "dt"s in "dx/dt" hardly matter; it basically represents "dx^2" between the current state and the
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by sixo 3mo ago
I read this kind of essay as a certain part of the arc by which new thoughts are formed: an act of large-scale pattern matching, laying out a bunch of cases which resemble each other, searching for the essential basis of the resemblance. To
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by sixo 3mo ago
things which help other people make money are overvalued relative tothings which are valued intrisically
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by sixo 3mo ago
I suspect that, in reality, it is the indignity of poverty which motivates people to take up arms against each other. So long as dignity is retained, poverty may be emotionally bearable (perhaps to the point of actual starvation, when digni
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by sixo 4mo ago
To hold this view you have to think of information as "not real", not like "real" molecules and receptors, the mind as distinct from the body, and then restrict the legal definition of harm to only "real" thing
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by sixo 5mo ago
This ought to change your mind about Ruby!
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by sixo 5mo ago
Feels fairly likely, though I'm skeptical the Jeeves name recognition is much besides a novelty now.
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by sixo 5mo ago
Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
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by sixo 6mo ago
The right read here is to realize that psychology alone is not the basis for moral concern towards other humans, and that human psychology is, to a great degree the product of the failure modes of our cognitive machinery, rather than being
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by sixo 6mo ago
We as a society accept the insurance system as an implementation of "funding healthcare" because market capitalism is supposed to lead to lower prices, fair allocation of scarce resources, and innovation, among other things. That
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by sixo 6mo ago
HN people always try to do this cute rhetorical gesture where you take a thing and say "hmm nice idea what if we called it <thing that already exists>", but they like this joke so much they get baited into doing it in dumb w
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by sixo 6mo ago
I don't see how that's necessary at all. All the arguments that WFH might be a good idea in the first place would still hold.
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by sixo 6mo ago
I would love to have a coworking-space-on-every-block (or in every building) where all the WFHers can go to be around other people (just not the coworkers)
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by sixo 6mo ago
A reputation moat is still a moat. It seems to me that Lego prices will drop as soon as they are forced to by competition, and not before, and this is fine.
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by sixo 6mo ago
Prices are constrained by demand moreso than by cost of production. Lego pieces are expensive because they can be, they still sell, and this is largely due to the quality. As long as the quality moat persists, they can charge as much as peo
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by sixo 6mo ago
It appears that the real lesson here was to lean quite a bit more on theory than a programmer's usual roll-your-own heuristic would suggest. A fantastic amount of collective human thought has been dedicated to function approximations i
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by sixo 6mo ago
There's also a trip to Hawaii in it for you.
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by sixo 7mo ago
Your dismissal of moral concerns is not convincing. Imagine a world where the only energy you do is use was generated by a stationary bike you had to ride yourself. You would, generally speaking, use that energy differently than energy you
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by sixo 7mo ago
Not every conversation is about AI. This one isn't.
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by sixo 7mo ago
this is false, it's been around for a while
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by sixo 7mo ago
I think the issue with "modeling" is really a human one, not a mathematical one. It's helpful sometimes to think of our collective body of mathematical knowledge as like a "codebase", and our notations and concepts
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by sixo 7mo ago
Even in the US we see cities becoming desirable place to live when they successfully cultivate a film scene, or an art school, and being dead when they don't. But this feels like a better approach than a basic income (which is an invit
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by sixo 7mo ago
The point is not to make better predictions of the things we already know how to predict. The point is to determine what abstractions link the things we don't presently understand--because these abstraction tend to open many new doors
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by sixo 7mo ago
Here's one: why does sunlight appear "sharper" or "harsher" during cold winters? The reason, I believe, is that cold air tends to be drier, and drier air scatters less, leading to more of the overall flux you receiv

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