thewoodsman

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   by thewoodsman 2mo ago

   So... fuck 'em? Hit 'em with a: "You're absolutely right — em dashes are a common signifier of AI" and go about your business. Anyone creating on the internet[1] is running laps around the class of losers who run fr
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   by thewoodsman 3mo ago

   > theres nothing wrong with doing what feels good. except that, according to your own experience, it eventually leads to you becoming unable to engage with anything that isn't an instant dopamine hit whose entire arc occurs in a few
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   by thewoodsman 4mo ago

   I like Leibniz's comparison of the brain to a mill, which he invokes in an argument[1] that seems to be the predecessor of the modern "hard problem:" > supposing that there were a mechanism so constructed as to think, feel
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   by thewoodsman 5mo ago

   agreed - s/marijuana/dangerous drug of your choosing/ - the point is more about the differential between the purported benefit of legalization / decriminalization of "sinful" activities and the actual outcome i
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   by thewoodsman 5mo ago

   The major benefit of legalization of something like marijuana is that you nix a lot of criminality associated with the drug being illegal. You also wind up with a better quality product, labels that help with dosage, potency, etc. The no-ho
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   by thewoodsman 5mo ago

   It's heavily tolerance dependent, and tolerance grows quite quickly with any kind of regular use, so it's really hard to come up with one number.
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   by thewoodsman 5mo ago

   Thanks! Glad you found something you liked. Got a couple good posts in the pipeline so stay tuned.
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   by thewoodsman 5mo ago

   I've got this new account and a Substack page where I'm writing about, idk... metaphysical stuff? Spirituality, religion, psychedelics, tarot, and so forth. I was inspired largely by the Weird Studies podcast, but there's a b
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   by thewoodsman 6mo ago

   I definitely struggle with both sides, or maybe multiple sides. On the one hand most of my daily output at my job is coming from AI these days. On the other hand I find the explosion of AI-generated "writing" (and other forms of a
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    by thewoodsman 6mo ago

    Honestly, all the ones I've known have been super sweet dogs. I can never quite bring myself to fully trust them, but frankly I never fully trust any dog.
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    by thewoodsman 6mo ago

    There is something so wildly cool about having an idea, modeling it, and a few hours later holding a physical instantiation of the thing that previously just existed in your head. Something we software people don't get to experience of